In short, at the top of the meritocratic ladder we have in America a generation of students who are extraordinarily bright, morally earnest, and incredibly industrious. They like to study and socialize in groups. They create and join organizations with great enthusiasm. They are responsible, safety-conscious, and mature. They feel no compelling need to rebel—not even a hint of one. They not...
Besides riding to the top of here, watching these guys win an unwinnable game, and having a crap-ton of fun here, I still managed to code an extraordinary amount. Wrote a Facebook application (I’ll talk about talk about that eventually), came up with a bunch of ideas for other ones (if I feel like spending the time…), and got a large amount of work done on my main project. As usual...
I was initially furious when I saw “Second Life“, “College of Journalism” and “$5 million” in the same paragraph, but after seeing that it’s costing less than $1,000 of taxpayer/alumni money, the fact that my alma mater is taking Second Life seriously makes me laugh.
Just set up a Roth IRA (in addition to my employer’s 401(k), my savings account, and my investment brokerage account).My friends are starting to get married.I have a full time job.And loans.
What happened to the old me?
JD: “And four years of pre-med, four years of med school, and tons of unpaid loans have made me realize one thing… I don’t know jack.”-Scrubs That line above pretty much perfectly sums up how I felt on my first day of actual work. Years of education had taught me how to be a good writer, thinker, programmer. But my first day, I felt that four years taking swimming...
Stretch Hummer.
Over the course of college, especially the last two years, I gained a tremendous amount of weight. I tried to stem this by going to the gym, but “going to the gym” meant driving over there a couple times a week and doing half an hour on the elliptical. A lot of things changed once I left school, and, through hard work and a complete lifestyle change, I lost an incredible amount of...
Haven’t posted in a while. I am going to make a point to try and make one post a day from now on, on something interesting in the news, a reaction to something I hear, or whatever randomly makes its way into the spongy stuff between my ears. The actual reason I have not posted in a while is because I have chosen to focus my time on a side project of mine. And through that, it’s given...
I was watching 30 Rock last night (surprisingly good show, a combination of dry humor and the ridiculousness that is Tracy Morgan). Alec Baldwin’s character made a joke about Six Sigma, and all the other characters looked confused.
Is it sad that after three months here, I know what Six Sigma is?
In the course of finishing my education and entering the workforce, the dynamics of my life have changed dramatically. Besides diet/living situation/car/DEBT/money, it has been a welcome adjustment of the division between work and free time, and the stress associated with it.