14th
Summer
Wow. Can’t believe Junior Year is already over. Though tough, and initially slow, the year is already over, and there is now lots to enjoy, because it is finally summer. This summer will be vastly different from my previous summer, when I took a trip to India to partake in a religious ritual. I’ll be attending UC Berkeley’s ATDP program called TIC or “The Internet Classroom”. Here I’ll be learning Web Design with XHTML, and CSS, something I’ve been really wanting to learn alongside many other programs such as Ruby on Rails. I think I’ll find large practical use to this because I’ve dreamed up many ideas and concepts regarding the web, however I have been incapable of coding and making any progress. It will also be vastly different from Computer Science, which I took this past school year, and the AP Computer Science I plan on taking my Senior Year.
I’m a big believer in applications and tasks moving onto the net, and I think I’ll find greater practicability in this than that of Computer Science. Programs that I write in Computer Science can only be used on one computer at a time, yet programs I write in HTML, XHTML, or CSS can be used by any computer that has internet access, and with phones like the iPhone. Thats so much better than writing in C, simply because I can embrace a program that is able to get in the hands of many rather than few. With all this said, I think there should be no doubt that this summer will be exciting because I’m taking a course in something I have interest in, rather than the dreaded courses many are forced to take in high school.
Ending with a quote by Steve Jobs:
” Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me. “
Going to bed at night knowing I might change the world with a web program I might develop is cool. That’s what matters to me.
-Rahul