Going well. Handed in our 3rd assignment today, which was IPC. A fairly primitive but still useful send/receive/reply mechanism. It was a bit more "down to the wire" than I would have preferred, since I had an insanely busy week, but in the end we handed it in with a whole 30 minutes to spare!

Life

I had a good time in Montréal last weekend, seeing a few of you NITIots and hanging out with my sister. Geaawd I miss that city.

Since then, though, it's been incredibly busy. I had 12 interviews this week, all of which went pretty well. It amazes me, though, how many companies will interview for development positions without asking any technical questions.

In many interviews for fairly senior (for co-op) positions, such as 3D software developer for Alias, the only questions I was asked were HR-type questions. (eg. "Why do you want to work here?" "Tell me about a challenge you faced.") I don't really want to get into the merit (or otherwise) of questions like that, but I do think hiring somebody to do software development and having no idea about their abilities in that area is insane. And just going by résumé and marks is mostly useless. Almost everybody sugar-coats their résumé, and marks are pretty much completely useless; I know lots of extremely bright people who don't have stellar marks.

Anyway, I have a few more interviews next week, including one with Google. Yay!

Going to get pished tomorrow at Oktoberfest. Surprisingly, it's my first time; in first year I was underage and in second year I was too lazy to get tickets for anything. Should be fun, and will constitute a well-needed break.