There Goes Another Year

It's December 31st and it's less than an hour away from the start of a new year, according to Pacific Standard Time.  I felt that this year was decent for me.  I got accepted into an accounting masters program and surprisingly I also got accepted into a computer science masters program despite not having any programming experience.  It shows that it can be done.  I'll be reapplying to the computer science program again next year.

Aside from accomplishing academic and professional goals, I progressed a small bit on the social side.  I'm more talkative with my coworkers in my part time job and I'm not afraid of assisting people who need help.  Though I'm afraid it's because it is in a professional setting rather than a social setting that's making me more outgoing.  Nonetheless, it's some progress.  Still have to be more outgoing though.  Hopefully, I'll accomplish more next year professionally and socially.  

On another note, some company called GFK retail and technology keeps bugging through my Bloomberg account about a job as a research analyst.  Don't know if I should bother responding.  The last time some company bugged me was AIG and they immediately broke contact once they saw my resume.  Heh.

To anyone reading this, happy new year.

Professionally Detached, Largo

All finals are done and today is the last day of my "job" before the Christmas break.  Over the last couple of weeks, I was "volunteered" by the IT staff to help install new wireless routers throughout campus.  It's an absolutely tiring task due to the amount of old routers located in bizarre locations.  Though tiresome, I was able to access parts of the campus that were off limits to most people and met other staff at other parts of the campus.  Most of the staff were decent people, but some were just annoying.  One secretary complained that she had to go open a locked door for me while another was angry that the routers were being replaced and had me reinstall the old one after I spent 20 minutes installing a new one.   Normally, I would be annoyed or even angry, but I simply felt nothing.  It's really odd.  It's like I'm absolutely emotionally detached when I'm working.  I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.  I remember reading that INTJ's care more about work than friends.  Perhaps being emotionally detached on the job is part of what I am.

On another note, I bumped into Largo again during one of my final exams.  Several dozen posts ago, I talked about how he and I met a long time ago in summer school during high school.  Before the final, he sat down next to me and we started talking a bit.  He then asked me if he had seen me from somewhere before.  I told him I seen him in other classes before and he accepted my answer.  Though I wonder if he actually remembers me from a long time ago.

It's Over, Oh Okay

I finished my final for my graduate accounting class today so my first semester there is over.  I hope I did well.  Relations with my accounting professor ended well, at least I hope it did.  There were awkward moments when my "INTJ vibe" leaked through and he was unnerved by it.  Though I had to fake some of it, forcing myself to be more happy and smiling around him managed to fix it.  He even requested that I do a presentation and I wasn't nervous about doing that either.  Hopefully I left a good impression.

Though it was a boring semester and I dreaded being forced to interact with my professor more than I wanted to, I did learn one thing though.  Apparently people don't like it when I say "oh okay".  Apparently, they think I'm interrupting them and trying to end the conversation or something.  I realized this a while back, but I thought it was a few people who misinterpret it, but I guess a large amount people do.  I guess I should change it.