This week marks the start of my final quarter at MSOE, my final quarter of formal education, at least for the time being. I suppose there’s always a possibility of getting a Master’s down the road, but I’m ready to be done for now.

As I was talking with Stan this evening, I realized that the courses in which I’m enrolled this quarter really aren’t going to require that I write a whole lot of code, with the exception of Senior Design. However, even in that course, our project is in such a place that we’re doing more documentation and testing to provide a final product. I’m taking German Literature and Contemporary European Societies, the final two classes I need to secure a German minor. Then I’ve got some Management class that’s required and is essentially an overview of business for the non-business student. Finally, I’m taking a Computer Security class which promises to be interesting, but won’t involve any software development.

A few weeks ago I added a “Currently Reading” widget on the right-hand side of every page of my web site. This list details the books I’m reading at any point in time, whether for enjoyment or for class. If you’d like to see a list of past books I’ve read, use the view past books link.

Finally, this past Saturday marked the 10 year anniversary of my experience with web development. I launched my first Angelfire-based Web site at 12 years old, on March 3, 1997 and haven’t been able to stay away from Web design since.