Archive for October 27th, 2005

Tom goes back to school…

Published at October 27, 2005 in Misc., Random Thoughts, The Job Hunt, Friends and Family and Announcements.

So I was looking at how much Paid Time Off I’d accumulated since my last “vacation” (which was not very relaxing) and I found that I had two weeks of time saved up… so pending my last-minute vacation request going through… I’m going back to school for a week!

I plan to take next week off and I’ll be spending most of that time at UMBC. Here is what I have on my agenda for that time. I plan to put in 8 hour days for the 5 weekdays, and I’ll try to actually relax on the weekends…

Mon-Fri (UMBC Library):

  • 3 hours learning and coding in Cocoa/Objective-C [text: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass]
  • 1 hour job hunting, making use of the Shriver Center on campus
  • 3 hours learning and coding in Lisp [text: ANSI Common Lisp and On Lisp by Paul Graham]
  • 1 hour researching and applying to grad schools
  • Extra Credit: hitting on cute undergrad girls and studying algorithms


    • NOTE: I think the school library will be a lot more conductive to me learning than sitting at home with a bajillion distractions (like pr0n ;) and the desks there are better set-up for study (ie: no bed to beckon to me)

    Saturday (wherever):

    PARTY!!! … and maybe brush up on Unix/Linux system admin.

    Sunday (Prince Frederick, MD):

    Visit the Parental Units

    Wish Me Luck!