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I'm a nuclear power controls engineer right now, and I'm not the biggest fan of my job but the money is really good. Been putting in a bunch of overtime to save up for grad school, I want to get in to a PhD program and go in to academia or R&D.
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when are you coming back to seattle?
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sounds like a cool guy, i want to hang out with him
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why do they hate you?
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whoa, shiiieeett, you mean like LEGIT/seriously sick or just temporary stuff? cos that either way sucks balls but the other ball has hairs/is worse ofc. i've been using that "easing into workforce" term alot, it's become part of me (what a good choice of words)...street lang of D-C, the backbone of gw hood... well. that's what i'm really aiming as well, trying to get an intership and after that Ease Into Workforce hopefully smoothly.
well, he died last month so that's been really rough. i did get a job though & am back to working for a living again... that's kinda rough too come to think of it
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I never really visited it so I dunno if that's how the community is, but rpgmaker.net is still around. I remember a barkley 2 thread or something there where a lot of old names like Ciel and Impeal or whatever were posting and they were all being snarky and aggressive like it was still 2006. going by the front page it seems like the dream lives on
 
i dunno how anyone could hate on Barkley 2 or ToG
you really have to work it to get offended by those, tho it's rm2k permanent teenagers, whadya know... 
 
how are you anyways DietC!!! thrice the time or charm etc, like what's the headsup of D-C's life... 
hi!
 
well things are bumpy, taking care of my sick dad & looking for employment/considering grad school for electrical engineering. other than that, things are pretty mellow.
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I never really visited it so I dunno if that's how the community is, but rpgmaker.net is still around. I remember a barkley 2 thread or something there where a lot of old names like Ciel and Impeal or whatever were posting and they were all being snarky and aggressive like it was still 2006. going by the front page it seems like the dream lives on
 
i dunno how anyone could hate on Barkley 2 or ToG
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http://youtu.be/822cAHfucVA
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what's bart up to?
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ugh, thanks obama
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I'm finishing up engineering school in about 3 months and have a line on an internship for the summer that should pay me well enough while I ease back into the workforce. Honestly, that's about all that's going on with me for the last couple years: burning transistors in the lab, making lines on the oscilloscope wiggle, writing code for microcontrollers, programming  and spending whole days triggering and staring at the output of logic analyzers. I may go back for a Master's degree but I don't quite know what for yet. I may want to switch gears slightly and do something more computer-y but we'll see how the job market looks over the next few years... if I manage to become filthy rich somehow or just find engineering work to be unbearable I'd want to do a PhD in math and just occupy myself with numbers.
 
Some buddies moved into my end of town and so I don't go out and about much, just kick it at the dives nearby. I go to the gym regularly to stay healthy, quit smoking for the most part, and am looking at taking language classes at the local community college to learn Mandarin once I've got a steady job.
 
I guess on the tragic end of things, one of my best friends killed himself at the end of last summer which fucked me up really bad and took a while to recover from. After that I started abusing valium and xanax because booze made it too hard to remain productive but I've cut that out. Thinking about it still stops me in my tracks every once in a while, it was fucking traumatic and broke my heart.
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one of my closest friends comitted suicide the other day
 
it's rough
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one of my very best friends is a writer and his thing is mostly short stories. i guess it'd be better to start with that, get used to developing characters & compelling narratives from the fragments and make little stories out of them. A novel is kinda a huge thing and like most stuff, the more you write the better you get, so don't just go diving in the deep end
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that's really cool that you're working in China, I've been seriously considering trying to find work or go to grad school out there. where are you at?
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also, consider getting a dedicated SSD for your boot/system drive, I haven't heard good things about the hybrid drives. Samsung and Crucial are good options there
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I'd skip on the liquid cooling altogether. that's one of those things that has always struck me as completely unnecessary and potentially a hassle.
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Good Kid MAAD City is a really awesome album
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AHHHHHHH THE ISLAMIFICATION OF EUROPE!!! OH NO!
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yeah they managed to screw up something that should have been pretty easy