I've been uncharacteristically procrastinating about Ada Lovelace Day. I signed up to do it, then realized that I actually don't know that many women in technology and can't think of any that I knew in my youth. Like the author of deliberatepixel.com, I bet I'd be farther along in my current career path if I had.

Classes resumed this week; I'm finally done with the core classes required for everyone. My favorite core class was (surprisingly for a recovering humanities major/non-math fan like me) Algorithms. I also enjoyed Programming Languages. Operating Systems was worth learning but not quite my cup of tea, as it turns out. I suppose I just like the nice, clean theoretical stuff more than the mess of implementation. (Maybe because what I do at work has so much real-world mess and compromise to it.)

This is my last week of freedom before fall classes begin again. I'll be taking Fundamental Algorithms and Operating Systems. These classes, in addition to Programming Languages which I took in the spring, are the prerequisites for most everything else, so I should be able to start picking electives soon. Natural Language Processing is being offered in the spring and I will definitely sign up for that, as a person with a strong language background and an interest in search.