Week in NY 10/11-10/17/2010

Since this week was super busy, I didn’t get a chance to take too many photos.

Vinny and I started the week by doing a massive problem set for Advanced Logic Design. We had Che Bella for dinner. It was my first time getting anything other than pizza there. I was satisfied.

Vinny and I grossly underestimated the amount of work that it would take to finish the problem set. We ended up spending all night doing it.

On Wednesday, I went to the YCombinator Q & A session at the Hunch.com HQ. It turned into a great networking event afterwards since there was free pizza and drinks. You can see the video from the event here.

Hunch has a MakerBot Cupcake CNC! I think they were still in the process of building it.

YC Fellow Harj Taggar and Reddit.com founder Alexis Ohanian answered questions and led the event. I think the purpose of the event was to spark interest in YC and in startups in general.

Friday was the Engineering Consortium Career Fair. IMHO it was the best career fair at Columbia so far. There were many startups that were looking for interns and full times. In addition to picking up a few leads on possible internships and full time jobs, I got a free shirt from Google! Google gave a shirt to anyone who could solve one of the puzzles they were giving out. Too bad that solving the puzzle doesn’t make it any easier to get a job there.

On Sunday I discovered that M2M sells jelly soda drinks! They were delicious, but unfortunately on the expensive side.

It seems that as time goes by, my netbook keeps collecting stickers. See if you can name them all!