2026-09-06
this summer was okay, some things great and other things poor, and other things just mid, but that’s just how it goes.
let’s start with the good
- I got a job, SWE Intern at Atlassian
- I was in SF (TX summer is brutal)
- Payday on Friday (always nice)
- Food (so many good varieities of food)
- Completed the first part of my AI4ALL program
- Completed the first part of my Break Through Tech program
- Got the Return Offer to come back to Atlassian full time
- Got a camera and took some nice photos
- public transit actually exists and is functional in SF
moving onto the bad
- finding housing in SF, i spent more on hotels than the eventual apartment
- my bag exploded on itself, on my return flight to ATX
- worked ~70 hours final week at Atlassian, to get project over the line
- forgot to sign up for a recruiting event at roblox
- didn’t network as much
- didn’t do as much touristy things around SF
- paused research at UTD to focus on other projects in different programs
- the ai ads everywhere
all in all, i think this was a great summer, got to experience some positives and negatives of a big city, one of the biggest in the world. got to try out new food, meet new people, ship good software, and just learned a lot about myself. also learned a lot about using ai and ai tooling, since it’s just the SF special