the ryan king

So, I was back in class this evening for the first time in a while. This was my first class at my new school, USF and I was a bit nervous. There’s nothing quite like walking into a room of your peers, all of whom already know each other.

I was nervous about the class, too, because my advisor let me in it even though I don’t have a the prerequisite for it. I was afraid I wouldn’t do well in the course.

Now, however, I’m really excited about it. The course is called Internet Systems Research and is being taught by David Wolber.

We’ll be reading the seminal and currently influental papers in Internet Systems. In addition we’ll be doing a semester-long research project, which looks really exicing- I’m already getting some ideas.

I really like the fact that we’re using a blog and will be using wikis for classwork, its good to be on (or at least close to) the cutting edge.

I’m generally not much of a Hilary Clinton fan, but I have to say that I agree with her on this one.

She says, “The fact is, the best way to reduce the number of abortions is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in the first place.”

This has been my stance on abortion for some time. I’m not going to advocate the limiting of abortion rights, because I think it is a symtom of a more significant problem- unwanted pregnancy. Or, maybe it would be better called “unbearable pregnancy.” If we could either reduce the number of pregnancies in these situations or change some factors which make pregnancies unbearable, we would do much more to prevent abortions from happening.