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Melissa Xie
Melissa Xie

My name is Melissa Xie, and I'm a middler studying Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering. I'm originally from Nashua, NH and I am of Caucasian & African American decent.

I'm active in the College of Engineering's outreach and admissions efforts and tutor freshmen physics. I just started my second term on the executive board of the Black Engineering Student Society (BESS). Since February 2007 I've done research in the Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS), and now I'm on my first coop in the Breast Imaging Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital.

I love to ski in the winter, kayak in the summer, and explore Boston with friends in between.

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May 10, 2009

First Summer in Boston!

Hey everyone! Happy summer! Well, at least for Northeastern anyway.

By this time, you all should've made your decision as to where you'll be attending college in the fall. Wherever you may have chosen, I'm happy for you! It must be a really exciting feeling to know you're going to college, so you must also be really anxious to graduate! I know the feeling, trust me! :)

Also, at this time, I'm already back on campus and taking classes while I know some of my friends at other colleges are either still in finals week or just finishing up. Northeastern was done WEEKS ago, so when I went home for about a week, it wasn't all too exciting because everyone else was still in school! :( But now they're about done and I'm already gone!

Well, I had just finished my first week of Summer 1 classes, although I am only taking one class (Calc 2). However, after class, I work! At the moment, I am *still* working for The Conference Exchange. In fact, as of this past Thursday, it has been a year since I've started working for them! That's unbelievable!

Anyway, during the summer, most students take only two classes...they are either every day from Monday through Thursday for an hour and 40 minutes long or twice a week (MW or TTh) for 3 and a half hours each. For my class, it's every day at 8am, and honestly, I have not taken an 8am class since my Fall semester of freshman year for my College Writing class, so this is definitely a weird feeling! So far, it hasn't been too bad getting up for it, and hopefully, it'll stay that way! :)

For the summer, everyone is taking different classes and seems to be doing their own thing mostly, unlike how the Fall and Spring semesters are. There aren't very many Computer Science classes going on during the summer, so everyone's around to take a science, math, writing or some other kind of courses. However, regardless of the courses my friends and I taking for the summer, we still manage to find time to hang out with each other, which is great!

Since people only take two classes as opposed to the typical four during other semesters, there is a lot more time to do other things. For example, today, I went out to Harvard Square with a few friends for lunch. We ate at Mr. Bartley's, which has some amazing burgers, but I had never gone there before, so it was an interesting experience! I ordered "The Mitt Romney" which was a burger with Swiss cheese and onions and it came with a HUGE pile of onion rings...totally super! I used up sooo many napkins! After we ate, we just kind of walked and hung around the area, enjoying the nice weather -- quite relaxing, I'd have to admit. Then, at some point, we decided to catch a movie, so we saw "State of Play". Interesting fact: we actually bumped into one of our professors and his wife a few times today in Harvard Square, which was pretty cool and interesting to see professors outside of campus. Apparently, he lives nearby!

Well, I hope you all are having a good time finishing up school...most of you should at least have until the end of the month right? It's something like that for one of my sisters who's currently a senior in high school. Her graduation's around mid-June (how scary that she's graduating!).

Once I get my camera back, I'll definitely try to post up some more pictures of things going on since I haven't done that in a while. Until then, have fun!

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