So many things have happened since I last wrote a blog post but I'm going to talk about Summer and the start of the Fall Semester. Its the end of Week 1 of school and I'm sitting at home watching the Week 1: Cowboys vs 49ers game while writing because its awesome background noise. So many flags this game. Moving onto what happened, I want to start with my internship.
Over the summer I interned at DigiPen's Research and Development Department as a hardware engineer intern. I learned so much from my hardware lead Nick Rivera. I could talk about the hardware techniques I learned like a hardware abstraction layer, PCB design, and some DSP tricks. If you want to see what I did for the internship just go to the internship page. But I learned something even more important. I learned that I have major personal flaws as a computer engineer. An example of this is getting stuck in a mental infinite loop. This is something I made up because I don't think its a real thing. But its the best way to describe it. When attempting to fix/solve a problem I try my best to come up with the BEST way to solve it. This is a problem because I'm my own worst enemy. I spend way to much trying to solve this problem the most optimal way possible that I either kill way to much time or my brain loops until I get mentally exhausted. This internship made me realize this was a problem. I haven't consciously thought about it as a student till now and I need to take steps to fixing it. My lead was a major help because he would tell me to do something a certain way and since he's the lead I got to do it that way. Now that I am aware of the problem I am actively trying to look out for it and stop it from happening. Right now its not a major problem because the semester just started. I'll update my progress later.
Another problem was my inability to communicate with people. Even now its a problem I'm having. The Internship really showed this problem to me. I would explain a technical situation to my lead and he would get really confused at what I was saying. I guess I can't explain things very well. I haven't taken steps to alleviate this problem but its something I'm thinking about.
Onto a different note, my project Mediated Perception with my partner Cody Harris is stopping. He wants to move onto a sound DSP project. I'm happy for him and I hope he gets what hes looking for in his new project. I have decided to join a junior team to work on a very ambitious project called Project GARI. Read more about it on my Projects tab. I'm really looking forward to this project because I need to work on a +2 person team. Partner projects for the last 2 years have made me forget about team cohesion and the importance of team dynamics. The projects I have done with Cody were primary split down the middle in terms of work. So I haven't had to deal with team issues very much because I have been primarily on my own. Also I have a very good feeling about this project if it takes off, no pun intended.
-Johnny Sim
Over the summer I interned at DigiPen's Research and Development Department as a hardware engineer intern. I learned so much from my hardware lead Nick Rivera. I could talk about the hardware techniques I learned like a hardware abstraction layer, PCB design, and some DSP tricks. If you want to see what I did for the internship just go to the internship page. But I learned something even more important. I learned that I have major personal flaws as a computer engineer. An example of this is getting stuck in a mental infinite loop. This is something I made up because I don't think its a real thing. But its the best way to describe it. When attempting to fix/solve a problem I try my best to come up with the BEST way to solve it. This is a problem because I'm my own worst enemy. I spend way to much trying to solve this problem the most optimal way possible that I either kill way to much time or my brain loops until I get mentally exhausted. This internship made me realize this was a problem. I haven't consciously thought about it as a student till now and I need to take steps to fixing it. My lead was a major help because he would tell me to do something a certain way and since he's the lead I got to do it that way. Now that I am aware of the problem I am actively trying to look out for it and stop it from happening. Right now its not a major problem because the semester just started. I'll update my progress later.
Another problem was my inability to communicate with people. Even now its a problem I'm having. The Internship really showed this problem to me. I would explain a technical situation to my lead and he would get really confused at what I was saying. I guess I can't explain things very well. I haven't taken steps to alleviate this problem but its something I'm thinking about.
Onto a different note, my project Mediated Perception with my partner Cody Harris is stopping. He wants to move onto a sound DSP project. I'm happy for him and I hope he gets what hes looking for in his new project. I have decided to join a junior team to work on a very ambitious project called Project GARI. Read more about it on my Projects tab. I'm really looking forward to this project because I need to work on a +2 person team. Partner projects for the last 2 years have made me forget about team cohesion and the importance of team dynamics. The projects I have done with Cody were primary split down the middle in terms of work. So I haven't had to deal with team issues very much because I have been primarily on my own. Also I have a very good feeling about this project if it takes off, no pun intended.
-Johnny Sim