I am so excited! I was recently notified that one of my projects has made it to the final round of the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Medial & Learning Competition.

I remember when I used to hate programming. I mean, getting a ‘some character’ to display on the screen after some massive algorithm and long drawn out calculation was not the most exciting. I must admit, however, that was how programming was several years ago. Remember COBOL, Fortran, and Pascal? Yup, I guess I’m dating myself. I actually remember when Java first released. No one knew it, so no one could teach it, and no one really knew it well enough to even judge if it was being taught properly or not. You can imagine the frustration of taking it as a class then. Of course, the backlash was…well, that I hated it.

Well, programming has come full circle for me…

I ‘met’ Michelle Obama yesterday! I shook her hand (for a good 2 min) and felt the magic of her presence. She is an amazing woman and embodies all of what this country needs in a first lady.

Congratulations to me! I received word just a few days ago that I won the Google Anita Borg Scholarship for the 2009-2010 school year. I was so elated to realize that a company like Google acknowledged my accomplishments. I must say that I hadn’t realized how much I had attempted to work on in my [...]