Surfin’ USA

Busy days — and more ahead

Seems I haven’t written anything for quite a while now. The reason for that is that I’m really busy with my thesis and several other things on top of that.
Regarding the thesis, I’m making good progress (or so I think ) and have some first very promising results. A few details are still missing, though, and some of those are really tricky to implement properly as well. Moreover I need to start writing things down to produce the actual thesis document — I already have a few pages (well, three ) but there are still a lot more to come…

Apart from that I’m spending quite some time planning my life after graduating here in Sweden. As I’ve written before, I’ve applied to the PhD programs of a few universities in the USA/Canada, and just now the first responses start coming in. I’ve also been in contact with a professor at ETH Zurich who has a vacant position in his group at the moment, with interesting research topics.
As another alternative I’m currently going through a number of phone interviews with Google, who have recently opened up a research/development centre in Zurich and are looking for employees. If they really ended up offering me a job, that would certainly be another viable alternative…
In any case, it will be a tough decision in the end! Right now, however, it’s too early to really tell anything, so stay tuned.