6 days ’til the fun begins
This coming Friday is my last day at my full time job. Sunday I’ll be flying back to Philadelphia, moving in to a new apartment Monday, and starting fall term of my senior year at Drexel University a week later. Some time after I arrive, my computer and the rest of my belongings should arrive by UPS so I can get back to work.
But that’s not the fun part. The fun part is being able to resume projects left off 6 months ago, and start all the new ones I’ve been thinking about. I’ll no longer be bound by the employment contract’s restrictions on what work I can do on the side, so I’ll have free reign to write new code again. I promise some more interesting projects to blog about, and some new features for W3Counter. I’m not talking about exporting to Excel — blah, what a bad monetization plan — although I’ll still do that too.
Fall should be a good quarter. I’ll be taking as many credits as Drexel lets me register for, as I usually do — might as well get as much as I can for the overpriced tuition. Classes this term:
- Optimization Theory
- Applied Symbolic Computation
- Computational Photography
- Computer Graphics
- Senior Design Workshop
- Law of Business Organizations
That should finish out my math minor if I can survive those classes. Hopefully the senior project won’t eat up too much of the long weekends — I scheduled all this between Mondays and Thursdays. All the graphics courses are just a fun side-track. They sound interesting. I’ve finished my concentration in algorithms already.
At some point I’ll have to think about what grad schools I’m interested in, take the GRE, and figure out if I can really afford to do that full time. I think I can do it without taking any loans. That is exactly what owning a business is all about to me — being able to work just enough hours to support the desired lifestyle.
