I am so excited for summer to come! This summer is a pretty important one, I guess, and I'm trying to find an internship, but somehow this and the combination of homework means I spend all my time online looking at interesting things that nevertheless accomplish nothing immediately. For example, yesterday I decided I wanted to learn about the AI in video games, then today I was reviewing web design stuff and looking at tutorials, and then I keep reading articles about "user experience", and then I switched my browser to Safari from Firefox, which I wouldn't have done but Firefox got insanely slow. Safari feels very clean and spartan. I really just want to doodle websites and try and get better at coding them. Then, I signed up for a java class this summer that I found myself getting really excited about, oddly, though the plan's not definite yet. Suddenly I'm becoming really interested in careers involving technology, but of course I am not really doing anything concrete, since speculation is so much easier than action. I think my best route is to keep going with the internship applications, take the class, and if any other plans fail, spend the summer trying to make cool stuff. I am also considering getting a new computer and buying photoshop (or all the adobe stuff at a discounted price), and I continue to ignore my final.
Most appealing non-homework projects:
-Plan a new collage, come up with theme
-Come up with concept for website, make it
-Try and learn how to make an interactive program (cooler than that one from my other computer science class)
-Write non-personal articles for an informative blog
-Draw new person, clothes, make interactive
Not appealing or a project, exactly, but better than the final:
-Internship cover letters
Ordinary time-wasting, not productive:
-Scribbly doodles
-Facebook, everything
-Twittering, finding new twitterers to follow
-Reading blogs, saving inspiration pictures
