I experienced something this morning that I have not experienced in a long long time. The other day I wrote about the first test I’ve taken in grad school, and it turns out that my score set the curve. Wow, that hasn’t happened since high school. There is a certain sense of pride that one gets by doing better than all others in a given situation. I think this is a built in function in our brain, like laughing. Anyway, it does feel good, but the important part is that I shouldn’t let this success go to my head. I worked hard to understand the material, and will need to do the same for my next test.<\/p>\n
So I kinda feel this urge to get into the Open-Source programming community. I am often very uncertain when it comes to my programming skills, but I think if I really get involved in some project I can hone my abilities by working on something I really care about. So the question is: Which comes first the programming skills or the difficult projects? In any case, I’m going to look into participating in the construction of Sun’s Looking Glass<\/a> desktop environment. It seems cool and new, and perhaps a good place to pick up Java, a rather important programming language.<\/p>\n I finished my paper. I’d say I did alright. I’ll post it up for you all to read after class is over. (Wouldn’t want my classmates to steal my work before I turn it in…like they would.)<\/p>\n