11 days until Commencement.
Holy carp.
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graduate from college
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6,128 people |
| 2. |
get a job
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10,514 people |
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get a place of my own
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59 people |
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learn PHP
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1,486 people |
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learn javascript
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363 people |
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learn SQL
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171 people |
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learn ASP
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53 people |
| 8. |
Lift Weights Again
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4 people |
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Run Faster
1 entry . 1 cheer |
240 people |
| 10. |
learn Perl
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249 people |
| 11. |
learn Apache
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3 people |
| 12. |
learn Python
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754 people |
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learn django
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59 people |
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learn Ruby
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1,841 people |
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Play Guitar
1 entry . 1 cheer |
1,709 people |
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Play the Piano Again
2 cheers |
468 people |
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have six pack abs
1 entry |
220 people |
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Take ballroom dancing lessons
3 cheers |
226 people |
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Learn a Martial Art
1 entry |
1,448 people |
| 20. |
live my dreams instead of dreaming my life
1 entry . 6 cheers |
130 people |
| 21. |
Do a Backflip
1 entry . 2 cheers |
824 people |
| 22. |
get published
1 entry . 2 cheers |
1,998 people |
| 23. |
Get a Dog
2 cheers |
3,860 people |
| 24. |
Draw More
1 cheer |
2,159 people |
| 25. |
Stop being so shallow
2 cheers |
4 people |
| 26. |
Do 43 things
1 cheer |
51 people |
| 27. |
Have 43 goals
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68 people |
How I did it: I took a web design course a year back, but for some reason things didn't really stick.This semester, something changed.I spent a lot of time at w3schools running through their tutorials, and even more time just browsing through the internet, looking at other peoples' web pages and figuring out how and why things worked (or didn't). There's a whole internet out there to learn from! Read how I did it…
It hit me a couple months into the semester.
I want to do web design.
For some reason, it didn’t click last year, but this time around, I realized that it’s a combination of logic, art, design, technical know-how, and pretty much EVERYTHING in a way that I absolutely love.
Do I feel artsy? I can go whip up images for a site. I can fiddle with the layout. I can think up different ways to present material.
Do I feel logical? I can nose through the structure of the page, or write scripts to make it work better, or double-check to see that I’m doing everything the best way possible.
Do I feel competitive? I can look at other pages, and make mine better
Do I feel humanitarian? Time to check out the Web Accessibility Initiative and see if my page is readable for people relying on screen reading software like Jaws.
...I haven’t felt this excited about learning in years. Not since middle school. It’s amazing.
I really have no clue what I want to do, nor have I ever been one of those people who was sure from kindergarten that they wanted to a be a doctor or firefighter.
In fact, my one memory in that vein is replying with absolute certainty, “I want to be a knight!”
...well, I’m in the military now, so I suppose that’s reasonably close. Some days I wake up wondering what the hell I did by signing on the line, but most days it feels like the best decision I ever made.
This isn’t permanent, though; something in me is still looking for more, and I think I may have to come to terms with the idea that I may never really feel “settled.”
I’ve got several years left and a college degree to finish in the meantime, which are certainly solid goals for the short-term, but I do wonder if I’ll ever feel like I’ve found my calling.