{"id":851,"date":"2004-09-06T02:05:59","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T02:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=851"},"modified":"2004-09-06T02:05:59","modified_gmt":"2004-09-06T02:05:59","slug":"the-fall-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/851","title":{"rendered":"The fall semester."},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is Labor Day, so it’s only fitting that today should also be the first day of classes for my roommate – the beginning of a new enterprise, the start of a new massive project. (If Mother’s Day celebrates mothers, and President’s Day celebrates presidents, and Arbor Day celebrates trees, then Labor Day should celebrate working – right?)
\nMy good man Talon is starting his Master’s program. As expected, I’m totally jealous, and it’s been acting as a major catalyst for getting my own butt in gear. To that end, I’ve been examining and revising the things I posted about earlier, in “Progress report, part 3.<\/a>” I have<\/i> to finish learning some of these things that I’ve been kicking around for ages, like PHP\/MySQL, ActionScript, and so on. What I’m hoping is, if I can echo Talon’s schedule (a full schedule combining school and work), that I can plow through enough of my to-learn list to stand a decent shot at being accepted when I apply to grad school this winter. This is going to be tight<\/i> – I have a lot to catch up on, a lot to refresh and a lot to just flat-out learn<\/i> – but even if my bid for acceptance is unsuccessful, I’m hoping I’ll have learned enough to enable further creative experiments, flesh out a more well-rounded portfolio, add some value to my consulting work and have a bunch of fun in the meantime. That’s the plan, anyway.
\nOh, and I also hope to make some things that I could submit to next year’s SIGGRAPH and the Interactive Annuals for the different magazines. I’ve been reading the latest issues of Communication Arts, Step, How<\/i> and I.D.<\/i> and they’re all filled with some really pretty uninspired work. There is clearly room for improvement here – I need to get to work, and now.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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