My Head is in Lala Land.

I think about college ALL of the time now. I think about it from the time I get up to the time I go to sleep. Homework and studying has been replaced with dorm shopping and Facebook chatting with people who I will be going to school with next year.

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Another Web Lamentation

Someone noted that my posts have been dry and uninteresting! I am absolutely fine and am sorry about that. I've been blogging for my web design class--it is a requirement. Don't worry, it's only temporary!

With that said, here is some more web stuff:

1) The club I was supposed to create a web page for already has a web site, so no I am doing it for someone else.
2) I like CSS more than HTML, but it is very confusing. I missed 3 days of class when we learned how to do all of the tags and codes, so I am always frantically trying to keep up.

P.S.
I'm about to bomb an AP MacroEcon test and an AP Euro test.

Honors?

I got in to the Honors Science program at my already tough college--something that is slightly unexpected and not necessarily welcomed. Yes, I did apply, but I thought there was a chance that I did not get in! I am EXTREMELY scared of my major, Biology/Pre-med, and the idea of "honors" worries me. However, I will have a better support group of students who are motivated and smaller classes which will be more like my high school experience. I guess that I will only be able to tell if I can handle it when I get there in August! Oh the anticipation!

AWESOME ACADEMICS.
AWESOME PEOPLE.
AWESOME LOCATION.
AWESOME OPPORTUNITIES.

AWESOME SCHOOL.

I CAN'T WAIT FOR COLLEGE. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FREAKING AMAZING.

Web Page Ideas

I am not exactly sure what I should do for my web page. However, I do have a few ideas:

1) Admission's pages for the seniors or for the whole student body
2) A web page for the IS

I could make the Admission's page have information about sports, academics, courses, clubs, etc. It would be helpful for people to learn more about the student life at ESD.

A web page for the International Society could help them organize all of their different loaning arenas so that everyone in the club and the student body could keep track of the different opportunities.

Money Aside.

Money aside, which of these individuals would you prefer to work with or for? Why?

The movie Pirates of Silicon chronicles not only the development of the computer, specifically the Mac and the Windows programs, but also the relationship ship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Both innovators are driven, brilliant, and changed the world. However, their individual personalities vary, Steve Jobs being tyrant-like and Bill Gates being nerdy and ever-so-slightly helpless. If I had a choice of who and for which company I wanted to work, I would work for Bill Gates.

Steve Jobs was portrayed, and in fact is, extremely motivated to the point of annoyance—he verbally abused his employees yet justifies it by saying that he is actually motivating his employees. But the degradation he bestows upon them for a seemingly worthless design cannot be conducive to a happy, low-stress work environment. Yes, he has built an empire and these tactics have made Apple popular—I am using a Mac computer—but how many enemies has he made in the process? How has he tainted his image? Steve Jobs’ pride probably does not allow him to think these things, and therefore as a boss, he would not be understanding or merciful if a program crashed or one had to take off for a funeral.

Bill Gates on the other hand is comically clueless and more child-like in that his personality is not as strong and in-your-face as that of Steve Jobs. He may have lifted some of his ideas from Apple, but Steven Jobs lifted some of his ideas from Xerox, so from that standpoint, both of their business are on similar playing fields. Bill Gates seems more personal, however. He is not a Steve-Jobs-machine that is looking for world domination, high status, and a company run like a military. Bill Gates is more diplomatic and his workplace would be more pleasant and have employees that experience lower stress while still trying to improve the world via windows innovation.

To further my point, I would like to discuss the iPad. This iPad is most likely going to cause an education and personal revolution—knowledge and communication will literally be at the fingertips of man at all times. But this system is not similar to the “anything-goes-and-everything-is-free World Wide Web (Newsweek April 5, 2010). He will have control of Apps, all apps, the internet, and all programs will be Apple-made—“the iPad won’t play videos that are created in Flash software, which is used for about 75% of all Web videos. Jobs has a “radical lockdown” (Newsweek April 5, 2010) on this system, and this exact strong diction used in the magazine describes Jobs. He is exclusive and does not work well with others, with other companies. The people must “sacrifice freedom for the sake of a lovely device” (Newsweek April 5, 2010). In other words, they are under the mercy of Steve Jobs. Perhaps, this reflects the corporate workplace of Steve Jobs’. It reflects a workplace that I would rather bypass for that of Bill Gates.

My Webpage Progress.

I need to work on my webpage more, but I can't because it is on a computer at school! HTML webpages really are not that difficult--you just have to combine everything you have learned. I just wish that we had more time to work on them!!!!!!!