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Today is my last day at the bank. Hooray!

It’s been an interesting 3 months. I’ve learnt heaps, programming in C#, Java and C++. Wearing a shirt every day and trying to get to work by 9am every day. I think I actually did some useful stuff too.

We ended up running out of time on the most interesting project though. We had one month to implement it, while trying to understand the maths at the same time. I can’t really go into the details, but it had to calculate millions of numbers and hopefully come up with a good result. It ‘converged’ under certain circumstances, but we felt there was a problem with the underlying maths. We couldn’t seem to optimize the solution at all. That’s pretty vague and all, but we did some hard stuff, it didn’t quite work, but it was worth the try anyway. They’ll probably tweak it after I’m gone so that’s good.

I turned the job here down. Instead I’m starting an internship in London.

I’m heading off on a trip soon. I’ve finally bought tickets.

I’m going to Hong Kong, London, Paris and Tokyo. I was going to go to New York as well, but I don’t have enough money. I leave in about 2 weeks. So much to organize.. Eek..

I might even have some things to blog about while on the road.

Oh yeah, in related news. My current internship ends around the same time, they offered me a full time job as a junior programmer. Mostly C++ in a unix enviroment. I’m squeezing this trip in before I start. Yay!

I finally started work at my new job this week, it’s been really good so far. I’ve a nice window view of the whole city. I have to do financial maths and C#.