miscellania

Today I spoke at Nations Ford High School career day to a bunch of freshmen about careers in computing. I talked about misconceptions about computing and about how diverse people and careers in computing are. I think it went really well, and it was a lot of fun presenting to the groups.

My favorite question asked today: "So do you party?" (My response: "Well, I have a lot of fun, but I mostly study really hard.")

List of careers that don't involve computing composed today: Child Watch at the Gold Hill YMCA (but not the Fort Mill one), being a hairstylist if you only take cash and don't put the money in a bank, a lemonade stand if you pick the lemons yourself, make your own sugar out of sugar cane, build the table out of sticks you gather in your yard, and paint the sign using berries.

High school students are great. We also made a connection with a programming teacher there at NFHS who said he would have me out to speak for his class soon. That'll be cool.

Other than that, it's just been a busy week. I spent a lot of time with my family on Monday night; my grandma had everyone down for dinner. It was a good time, and really rare, actually, since everyone was there. I had to say goodbye to Victoria, which made me sad, but that's okay. She'll be back for Thanksgiving and maybe I'll go see her one weekend too (although there is no space in my calendar for that). 

I'm watching the presidential debate. Hmm. I have no idea who I will vote for. 

Mk, I really have nothing useful to say, mostly just procrastinating from this work. I'll start working now. I have piano tomorrow morning and then it is finallyyy fall break! I'll be working on things all day tomorrow. It'll be good.