Disclaimer: this is the story as I remember it. very likely to be incomplete and/or incorrect, but a story nonetheless. Leave comments for corrections. oh, and tell me when i should stop.

Six months at Intel passed without a hitch and I returned to a life that had moved on. My classmates had all kicked off their senior year in style and were preparing for job interviews and life in the great beyond.  CCIT had grown even more and i was no longer an integral part of the operation. And, after six months away, the girlfriend realized what an ass i was and ended the relationship.

The breakup with the girl was the real kicker at the time. In hindsight, it was probably one of the better things that’s happened to me. Lots of self reflection and eighteen nights of drunkeness later (I was gunning for nineteen or twenty three. I wanted to stop on a prime number for some reason, but, well, i got sick on the eighteenth day), I think I came out of it with a better understanding of who i was and who i wanted to be. Also, had it not been for that breakup i probably wouldn’t have had a chance to get to know the WangWongWoo triumvirate which would have been truly catastrophic.

As for CCIT, i stayed out of the way for most of the semester. Compared to the thirty plus hour weeks i used to put in, i was pretty much a ghost, or at least i felt like one. I would drop in on occasion here and there to fix bugs or hang out, but i wasn’t contributing the way i once did. Everything felt wierd at that time. I didn’t have a workstation or even a desk at which to sit. I ended up plucking away on lilgeck, my first laptop that i bought with the intel money. Workwise, it was just a mediocre time for me. I spent most of that semester smelling roses and enjoying the city with friends. I remember a lot of drinking all night . . . it probably had something to do with becoming president of my fraternity.
But CCIT didn’t really need me then.  Oddly, they had grown a film department (comprised of one Johnathan “Hollywood” Hludzinski and Leah Gelpe) charged with producing promotional films for the college, and had spawned many a website for the college and student affairs.

So, things were good for all by the end of the semester.  I had my time away from all things professional engineering and CCIT was doing incredibly well. But, there was more to be had.  I mean, the University has sixteen schools, and we were only playing with two of them.  Soon, the engineering school would be taken over, and in order to accomplish that, we needed more intern power.  Enter two of my favorite interns: Jenny Lee and Andy Shin.

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