I have a good news and a bad news.  The good news is “Ya! I got a job.”  And the bad one is “Ah~~ I got to work, now!”
 
My new job is with a mobile phone company in Taipei which mainly serves ODM for Motorola.  And my current assignment is to build a cell phone simulator for PCs.  So, everyday I have to review a lot of C code which formerly ran on cell phones.  Although I left America almost two months ago and haven’t seen you for a while, I think of you very often.  Every time I spend several hours trying to find out where a global variable comes from, I think about you.  When I look at a function with 233 lines and it also contains some mysterious global functions, your face always pop up with a big smile and says “ Now you know!”  Yes, now I know!

I have taken most of your courses and only have missed DP and IP (what a pity!).  I still remember the midterm of OOD (wow!), the final project of SWMAA, the most complex stuff in the world (COM), the 10 choices of AWP and those nights with my team when I took Software Studio.  I really liked all of them, although I nearly spent most of my time on them.  It seems almost all of my graduate memory was to struggle with those interesting projects and your crucial requirements.  However, to be honest, when I presented those projects in interviews and got more than 8 offers within two weeks I know I did something more than worthwhile in SU.

All I want to say is thank you.  Maybe someday when you are too old to teach and even too old to remember yourself, I will take a break and fly to Syracuse.  I can remind you some of your students (like Goldie!), those old jokes of yours  (still remember most of them, ha!) and what a great teacher you are, dear Dr.

Don’t worry; I’ll always keep in touch!  -  Huang, Yi-Yang