{"id":68,"date":"2009-08-21T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T20:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewhuynh.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2009-08-21T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T20:30:46","slug":"summer-is-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/21\/summer-is-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer is ending."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my internship here at Verndale is ending. it&#8217;s been quite a ride &#8211; i felt like i&#8217;ve learned a lot about web development in the past 2.5 months. my performance was overall positive, which is good. i got to work on 2 major projects, which was great. i felt trusted and challenged. i&#8217;d definitely come back next summer, but i&#8217;ll be seeking a wage increase for sure, haha.<\/p>\n<p>school is starting up again. i decided that this year, i would stop being lazy in all aspects of life. i&#8217;m going to try harder at school, at ultimate frisbee, and anything i tackled. my personality&#8217;s always been competitive and determined, but i still slipped up sometimes, especially with regards with academics. this summer&#8217;s internship reinvigorated my desire to study computer science, my drive to become a better programmer, my greed for more knowledge. on my plate for the fall semester are 3 compsci classes (programming languages, intro to algorithms, probability in computing) and 1 BS class (music appreciation). definitely excited.<\/p>\n<p>i can&#8217;t wait to move into my single at StuVi 2 too. i&#8217;m living with 7 other peeps. our suite&#8217;s living room is going to be pimped out &#8211; i&#8217;m providing the TV and sound system most likely. hopefully i won&#8217;t get too distracted.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m going to go watch District 9 today. there&#8217;s rave reviews and ratings about it &#8211; and it&#8217;s a scifi flick &#8211; so why not? speaking of which, i&#8217;ve been watching a lot of TV and movies recently. i don&#8217;t feel compelled to play any video games any more. i&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll change up sooner or later. i just have these cycles where i happen to like one thing for a while&#8230; but eventually it changes. it&#8217;s just odd launching up a game and not feeling any desire to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my internship here at Verndale is ending. it&#8217;s been quite a ride &#8211; i felt like i&#8217;ve learned a lot about web development in the past 2.5 months. my performance was overall positive, which is good. i got to work on 2 major projects, which was great. i felt trusted and challenged. i&#8217;d definitely come &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/21\/summer-is-ending\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer is ending.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[38,37,39,14],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings","category-work","tag-compsci","tag-lazy","tag-stuvi","tag-verndale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}