I never thought I'd find myself saying, "Darn, if only I didn't work at Sun", but I just did. What could cause me to say such a thing about the job I love so? I am ineligible to enter the Solaris 10 University Challenge Contest.
 
No, I am not pushing this just because I work here. I really think this is cool. As soon as I heard we were doing this, I was thinking about entering my own thesis. When I got home that day, I told Tom he should enter his thesis. Unfortunately for him, he is ineligible too. We were both pretty disappointed we could not enter.
 
What is so great about this contest? To graduate, you have to do a senior project or a thesis. If you're like me, you are going to spend a good amount of your time on it (6 months on my senior project, 18 months on my thesis). At the end you'll have that piece of paper to hang on the wall, but why stop there? How about $5,000 and an Ultra 20 Workstation? How about also getting $100,000 in free Sun products for your school? All of this for something you're going to be doing anyway. Check out the rules and then get your project submitted by 6/10/06.
 
For now, my dreams of the Kristin Amundsen Software Engineering Lab will once again have to go on hold. Maybe I'll win the lottery... I guess I have to play to win. So do you, and I think odds are much better for the S10 University Challenge.