Hi
Hey, how's it going?
Good! What about you?
Good. Just enjoying my day off.
Do you always have this day off?
No, just today because of school being out.
Oh okay. Are you a teacher or a student?
I'm a student. I thought everyone on here is a student. But maybe I'm wrong.
True haha i forgot What are you studying?
Computer Science. How about yourself?
Me too! Computer science is awesome
How far in are you?
I'm a sophomore now. What about you?
Senior. I graduate in December.
that's awesome are you excited to graduate?
Yeah! I can't wait. Have you seen the Avenger's: Infinity War yet?
not yet! but i already read everything about it so i know all the spoilers haha did you like it?
Yeah, it was amazing! It gave me all the feels. Seriously, I shed a tear.
really? i expected it to be bad but now everyone is saying is was great
My only complaint is that it ended on sort of a cliff hanger and we have to wait another year for the conclusion.
yeah superhero movies always drag things out too much
Haha yeah they kind of do.
what's your favorite movie of this year?
Well there's not a huge selection yet I guess but it would be either Infinity War or Black Panther. I just saw Coco for the first time this month though and that was one of my favorites as well but it came out last year. How about you?
black panther was amazing to be honest, i think a quiet place was the best movie of this year. and probably the best horror movie ever
I haven't seen that one, what's it about?
it's a typical post-apocalyptic horror movie with aliens or monsters have you seen the movie alien? the catch is that the monsters hunt by sound, so any sound alerts them and they kill you. so the humans have to be completely silent, like walking on sand and using ASL
Yeah I have
it's a lot like a modern alien
Oh that's a cool idea.
it's pretty intense. and it's fun to watch movies besides marvel these days since marvel dominates the movie theater
Haha yeah it really does. Favorite all time movie?
ooh that's a tough one. what's your all time favorite?
Tim Burton's "Big Fish"
hm I haven't heard of that Why do you like it? and just kidding i do know what it is! i googled it and remembered, i've seen part of it
I think it's a really great story and I think it just changed my view on what it means to live a fulfilling life.
i love movies like that. ones that change your viewpoint
So what do you want to do in CS? Any areas of interest yet?
yeah! i'm really interested in bioinformatics, i'm switching my major to CS with the bioinformatics focus what about you? do you know where you want to work since you're graduating soon?
Yeah, I've been really interested in networking and distributed systems. I'm working at Qualtrics right now where I do a lot of work on both of those.
what do you mean by distributed systems? like sysadmin stuff?
After I graduate I will probably stay at Qualtrics but I have had a google recruiter in touch with me as of late and might interview with them this summer. More like developing applications that instead of being one large piece of software are many small pieces that are networked together.
That's super cool. I hope you get the google job too, google does awesome work Although it's a meme, would a botnet be a distributed system?
Yeah a botnet is definitely a distributed system.
okay got it have you taken classes specifically for networking or did you teach  yourself?
I learned a lot from work but classes have definitely been useful. CS324 and CS460 are both really good for that. Other than movies what do you do for fun?
well i'm a huge nerd, so internet and video games
I used to be really into video games but I haven't really played since I started College. What are the good ones as of late?
the new zelda game! it's so amazing. i also stopped gaming in college, but then i sold my gaming computer and bought a nintendo switch best choice ever
I have heard so many people talk about it. That's awesome you have a switch. I think that is going to be my graduation present to myself is a switch and Zelda.
do it. it's the perfect gaming system because you can play it in bed for 30 minutes before you sleep, it doesn't take up your whole life
I will for sure! I've got to get going. It was good talking to you.