Mornings are a unique aspect of a day. The start of a new one - the most time between now and dusk, when the wind dies back down and the temperature falls. Mornings light up everything, darkness evades the rays of yellow only for so long. Morning comes like a heartbeat - the pulse of life. A crescendo of activity marking yet another day.

Enjoy yours.

It's probably true that one occasion everybody gets a free "really-dumb-moment".

This day happened to be one in which I got exactly zero sleep the night before - due to poor planning and an embrace of college life. I had a Programming Languages (PLP) assignment due. It took a while, and because of my 8 AM class I decided to stay awake instead of getting a few hours of sleep and fighting the alarm clock.

My 8 AM class lasts until 9:15. After it got over I had only one thing to do before my 11 AM class, finish and print my PLP assignment. Since I have 3 classes back to back starting with that 11 AM-er, it's imperative my affairs are in order before I go to the first one.

In 2005, I had to make a choice. I had applied to several schools, and I needed to pick one to attend. I wasn't all that excited about college, as I have long preferred to learn things on my own. While I was accepted to several colleges (In fact, I'm proud to say, I was accepted to all I applied for), I didn't know which one to choose. Do I go to a private school? Public? I don't know. Which one?!

I picked UNI, because I liked the campus, community, and the size. I didn't want a college that was too big, but I didn't want one that was too small, either.

Lately I've come to realize a very important issue with my work flow is one of tangents. My attention is easily grabbed, probably because many things interest me. This is both a blessing and a curse. Often I find myself browsing the web, usually on some kind of programming blog or programming website. Blogs typically have large amounts of links in their content bodies, which direct the user to other, relevant pages of interest. I click on the ones that interest me, often opening them in tabs behind my current one. This works out ok for a while, but I end up with a browser window with 100 tabs full of stuff I really want to absorb, but there's just not enough time!

A recent article discusses the current job market and your average American college graduate. The article basically says "If all you know is Java, you are screwed." At UNI, the first language they taught us was Java. I learned Java from Ben Schafer, in my CS 1 and 2 classes. I attribute my current interest in programming to him, and the things he taught me in Java have been and continue to be the springboard to bigger and better things.