Bye, bye, grad school
Nearly two years ago, I moved to San Francisco to study at the University of San Francisco. This morning I took my last exam. I’ll soon be a Master of Science in Internet Engineering.
It’s a very strange feeling. I’ve been in school for most of the last 19 years of my life, and I can’t say how relieved I feel to be done. It’s not that I didn’t think school has been worthwhile, it’s just a great feeling to suddenly have one fewer responsibility.
I’m sure you’re now asking “what’s next?” (hi, mom).
What’s next is taking some time off. Some friends and I have a ski house in South Lake Tahoe for the season and I plan on spending pretty much all of January there. I’ll be around SF, too, but I won’t be working much (if at all).
We’re actually heading up to the house this weekend, too, and I’m skipping my own graduation to go skiing (please don’t say that I should sit through a boring 3 hour ceremony instead of skiing, seriously).
I have a bunch of projects I want to work on. Many of them programming related, others more creative and corporeal. I look forward to just getting to work on whatever I feel like for awhile.

December 12th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Congratulations, Ryan. :D
December 12th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Congratulations, Ryan!
December 12th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
Awesome. Congrats!
December 13th, 2006 at 1:05 am
Congrats!
December 13th, 2006 at 1:07 am
You should totally go to the ceremony. Nothing’s better than sitting around with tons of people you don’t know or care about, waiting in line to get a piece of paper.
December 13th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Congratulations :-)
December 13th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
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December 14th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Congrats Ryan!
Can’t you compromise and wear a silly hat & cloak while skiiing?
December 14th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Way awesome, congrats.
December 16th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
the hat’s not a bad idea. remember?
January 11th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Wow, fantastic! Few people could complete grad school and achieve what you have at the same time.