I stuck around another year and got my masters. It was mainly an excuse to go on another solar car race. Even though I delayed getting a job a year, I suspect t

I stuck around another year and got my masters. It was mainly an excuse to go on another solar car race. Even though I delayed getting a job a year, I suspect the masters degree got me more stock options than I would have gotten otherwise, and that stock turned out to be rather lucrative. My wealth of experiences from building embedded systems for solar race cars also played positively into entering the workforce. The graduate level algorithms course I took was definitely interesting and helpful.