/blog Expanding your mind like a knife through butter. Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:50:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm excited to say that I'll graduate on May 15 (assuming I show up to my finals). Anyone who wants to come is quite welcome. /blog/2009/04/25/103/ School is going well -- it looks like my course load will be an easy one, and I'm still enjoying some of my homework. I went to the Lady Bears' basketball game tonight and watched them lose narrowly to Oklahoma. I was surprised when it was announced that George W. Bush ... /blog/2009/01/29/102/ While I was shopping today for vegetables for some scrambled eggs, I walked past a woman in an aisle who was using pen and paper to tally up the amounts of all the items she put in her basket. She was obviously making sure, before she checked out, that her ... /blog/2009/01/15/101/ Today was the first day of my last semester. One of my electives is World Religions, and my professor, wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers jacket and hat, began class with a loud and dramatic recitation of "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley. After some chatting and the obligatory syllabus overview, he started ... /blog/2009/01/12/100/ I've decided I'm not going to graduate school -- not now, anyway. That means I hope to start full-time work upon graduation. The decision wasn't easy. On one hand, I'm a pretty curious guy, and graduate school would present a significant intellectual challenge and an environment full of bright people. A ... /blog/2008/10/07/99/ My internship is coming to a close, and I'm happy to say that the company and I have met each other's high expectations. I have one week left to wrap things up, give a presentation to a few managers on what I did this summer (and try to keep it ... /blog/2008/08/03/98/ I'm now three weeks into my summer internship. The trip here was pleasant, if warm, and a stopover at my aunt and uncle's house near San Antonio broke it into two easy pieces. The countryside is beautiful, and I doubt I'll see it much while I'm here, but it's nice ... /blog/2008/06/21/97/ A week and a half ago I finished juggling 18 hours of classes all the way to the finish line. I lost a lot of steam right before finals week — in fact, I felt like the semester had been exactly one week too long — but I survived and ... /blog/2008/05/24/96/ This evening I helped Baylor host a UIL programming competition for nine local high schools. Each high school brought one team of three students, and each team member took a written exam on various programming topics before coming together for a two-hour programming contest. Each team's exam scores were combined ... /blog/2008/04/11/95/ Spring break is over and already sorely missed. I finished just one day of homework. Coincidentally, I think this is the best Spring break I've had. Sunday night I took my brother and a friend to see a band I love, This Will Destroy You, play in somebody's house in Dallas. ... /blog/2008/03/20/94/