Masters Thesis Planned
Awesome: Later this year, I will spend a few months doing research and writing my masters thesis as a grad student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
It took a few months to get a handful of question marks out of the way, but now I am quite confident that it will work out just fine.
A lot of people may have heard the name Carnegie Mellon before, but for those who haven’t, CMU is a private university with a good computer science program. According to Wikipedia, the college is pretty decently ranked and was “named one of the “New Ivies” by the magazine Newsweek in 2006″.
Having been to the American East Coast only once before (on vacation to New York City), I am excited to see what the differences and similarities are between life there and what I experienced in Oregon and California. Oh, and if you happen to know Pittsburgh and around and would like to suggest something I certainly shouldn’t miss out on when I’m there, please drop me a line 
It’s wonderful that you are planning to do your masters at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. I have heard quite a lot about this university.
Carnegie Museums – Right next to the campus
Steelers/Pirates Game
Downtown Theaters Etc.
Craig Street
Forbes and Murray
Monroville
Gateway Clipper
Station Square
Fireworks at the Point
Point State Park
Frick Mansion
A lot more…
Oh, that’s a very nice list, Ben. Thanks
I’ll make sure to see these sights. Looks like there’s indeed a lot for me to experience there!
Congratulations Fred!
>suggest something I certainly shouldn’t miss out on when I’m there
Microbrewery inside of a church, with the brew house up on the alter. They also feature really great pizza:
http://www.churchbrew.com/
w00t! Congrads, CMU is a great school.
Thanks, guys!
Alex: Thanks for the suggesting the church brewery! Not only am I a fan of microbrewery beer, it also seems to be a fun location well worth checking out
Awesome!
Know what your masters thesis is going to be on yet?
Oh, hey, Preed! (/me waves over to the Birdnest)
It’s still a little fuzzy, but the topic that’s currently planned is something along the lines of combining distributed work flows in a SOA environment. But I am working with the people involved at the moment in order to get to a more specific thesis proposal. I’m excited — I think it’s going to be fun.
Good to hear that it’s all working out. Some things just take a little longer. I’ll definitely try to take some vacation and visit you in PA
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