One Week
So, I’ve been a high school graduate for just over a week (a few hours over that is). I still can’t believe it. As I’ve been telling various people/classmates as it comes up, they are going to have to have me forcibly evicted from that campus. Its just been too much of my life for the past seven years! Of course, I guess I’m referring more to a few departments/faculty members than the entire school itself, but still… It had its ups and downs, but in the end it was a good place for me while I was there.
In the week leading up to graduation, I kept saying how I was never going to leave… how I was going to come back next year a lot while in Waltham, and then help out with tech stuff. Well, I have to say that it is far less interesting to be at Beaver when the school is so empty. Last week was so different from the weeks that preceded it, despite the fact that I was still just working on my machine for fun. Before, there were other students when I walked the halls, instead of the occasional teacher now; and Marjorie and I kept distracting each other from our respective projects, while now if I stop working I just feel like I’m wasting my time. Its really different and not as fun. Hmm, maybe I should recruit people to ‘help’ me finish the project… aka distract me while I try to work ;p
But gee, a week. I can’t decide if it went by fast or slow, but it certainly went by. I still have no idea what I am going to do with my summer… I’m thinking about looking into something at Harvard summer school or the like. Of course, I have to make sure it doesn’t interfere with Siggraph, and I can’t get credit without applying to WPI again as a transfer student (or so they said about the CDIA program for next year). Either that or try to do this theater stuff as a more immediate commitment, like just saying to someone “Hi, I know how to hang lights, I’m available, I’m volunteering, and don’t try to tell me you can’t use free and experienced help.” Or something to that effect.
Otherwise, maybe I’ll just do some more work on the fiction I started for Ms. Zuckerman. She gave me some good feedback, and I agree that a couple have some potential. Also, maybe working on some 3D stuff to keep my mind ready for next year, or trying out the programmer’s version of 3D… POVRay. Of course, first I have to write that letter to Marty in thanks, along with an idea he gave me. He suggested, based on something he heard at a graduation speech recently, that I (well, graduates in general, but he was talking to me) write a letter to myself that is not to be opened till I’m 30 or 35 or something. I like the idea… just gotta sit down and do it.
Oh well… stuff to ponder.
-Taniith