Home for the Holidays

I arrived home for Christmas break yesterday evening. After enjoying some delicious home cooking and taking a leisurely 10 hour "nap" I'm ready to start updating DiamondKnight.com and checking out some of the latest happenings in the tech world. Unfortunately, I often find these activities getting pushed to the side during the daily grind of the Stanford quarter system.

I've got the portfolio page up and running. So far I only have 3 projects (all done in the last quarter of school) posted, I'll be working on getting up examples of my past web design next. As you can also see the Diamond Docs are now finally online. For now I'm going to stick with the minimalist look. I'm still a bit wary about this whole blogging business, but it does seem like the best way to quickly and easy jot down my thoughts and also share them with the public on some off chance that someone may be interested in them.

One of the reasons I'm motivated to get DiamondKnight.com back up to date is because I've already started thinking about my plans for the summer. I'm looking at a few different options right now:
-Internship at a big company: Google, another summer with IBM, SAP, Intuit
-Work at a small company/start-up: Facebook, SwayLaw, Guidewire
-Stay on campus and do CS research, probably something to do with Human-Computer Interaction.

Each choice has its upsides and downsides. CS research is really the only totally new venue, I've done full-time work at large companies before, and I have also worked (part-time) at start-ups. At this point I'm simply trying to keep my options open in order to make sure that I have a great experience this summer. As always, any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.