D-O-N-E done.

This awful semester is over. Argh.... it’s not really that the semester itself was bad.  I mean, I live in an awesome townhouse with 2 friends and I have a giant backyard (a rarity in a college town), and this area is nice what with mountains and caves and such.  But it was stinky in terms of classes.  For my entire life, including the first 2 years of college, I got basically straight A grades without putting forth any time or real effort.  Then junior year it suddenly -- and I mean really suddenly -- got difficult.  Sophomore year was like grade school, and junior year was nearly impossible in comparison.  So it’s taken me a long time to accept the fact that I now need to spend considerable time on schoolwork... and to actually start doing it.  As a result, I’m about a year behind where I should be, and my GPA went from 3.7 to 2.8.  Grrr, Penn State, anger!

And then there are days where I’m absolutely sure I could can this whole "engineer" business and just do web design/scripting for a living.  It’s so fun.  I recently designed a site for my friends in the band Owned and Operated at www.oaorock.com.  It uses the same CMS elements as my site (which I built about two years ago before I had even heard the term content management system) so it has a similar feel.  But um... the giant bug photo at the top, that wasn’t my idea, though I was present at its creation.  And it’s not a race, it’s a rebirth.