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.

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.