Met with my probation officer early in the morning before quickly driving off to the Hands on Atlanta office through traffic. I’ll be volunteering in a network administration and software engineering type role. Job description includes developing software, consulting on network installations, and every now and then, performing technical support. I start on Thursday. Ostensibly, everyone there is very excited to have me aboard their team. I mean, it’s not every day that you get a senior Computer Engineering major from Georgia Tech to work for you for free.

Of course, I’m just as excited to be there. I hope that it will be a great opportunity to work in a small business environment and gain valuable skills in computer systems and networks. And who knows, maybe I’ll get to meet some great new people too. And, because I’m a volunteer, there is absolutely no obligation. If at any time I feel that things are going sour, I can just walk away.

After our productive meeting, I returned to school for my first biology lab of the year. It was so silly that I don’t even want to talk about it. I guess that’s what I deserve for waiting so late in my college career to take a freshman level course.

After biology lab, I left with James, my partner TA, to the Instruction Center to teach our first recitation of the semester. We covered introductory Java concepts such as primitives, boolean operators, the basic class, and conditional statements. For a first recitation, things went surprisingly well. The students were very comfortable and actively participated in discussions and in answering questions. I think we’ve got a great section this term.