My name is Jessa, and I'm a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I'm going to be a senior this fall, and I am currently pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Japanese, with a minor in Mathematics. I'm planning on studying abroad in Japan this fall! This is very exciting, but unfortunately I won't be able to take any computer science or engineering courses while I'm over there. I'll be finishing up my C.S. degree when I come back, and hopefully go to graduate school to get a Master's in Computer Science after I've completed my B.S. (providing I'm not sick of school by then). I'm hoping to graduate in Spring 2009, since I am slow and it will take me at least five years to graduate. That's okay, because I have friends who are younger than me. I'll just hang out with them when everyone else I know has graduated.

This summer I am working for Prof. Michelle Strout at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. We're doing compiler stuff and parallelization, which is pretty exciting as I've never dealt this in-depth with compiler optimization before. Granted, I suppose that's the entire purpose of research in a specific subject.