Got my MS EE diploma, now what’s next?

After 4 years since I last took the UP theatre stage, I found myself walking on the same stage, waving to the other graduates (some of them used to be my students), and then shaking Mam Gev’s hand! Yes, I am once again officially a UP graduate! And now I have my MS EE diploma to brag about It took me 3 ½ years, countless overnights and sleepless nights in the DSP (Digital Signal Processing) lab, about a couple hundred progress reports (and missed a few of those due to ‘lack of progress’), 3 INCs (Math 211, EE 264 and EE 374), and thousands of printed pages for my documentation… It took a lot of hard work, successes and failures to get here, but just like what I keep saying “Hey, I MADE IT!”

with my Ampa

I couldn’t thank enough everyone who has been a part of my UP life – you know who you are. Thank you for joining me in my roller coaster ride. I have enjoyed making my way up and then plunging right down only to go up again

Now that I have my MS EE diploma, what’s next for me?

I have started working as a firmware engineer at Emerson Network Power in November. So far, it has been challenging and fun working on a new field (wireless comms) and adjusting to a new environment. I also fiddle with some image processing exercises, using Matlab, to keep my DSP brain cells moving. I suppose that right now, on top of my mind is to keep on going with work, give it my best shot no matter how new I am to the field, and at the same time try and get better with DSP. I have to admit I am still hoping that at some point, I’ll have a signal processing-related job. Hopefully attending the DSP 2009 Conference can help me out on this one We’ll see. But right now, work work work is the key! Will I pursue a PhD? I’m not thinking about it now, but in a year or two, ask me again

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