The personal side of AT Options

[Astrid]

Sitting here in the school library between classes, ultimately bored and exhausted, I've come up with an idea some of you may either immediately disregard as a waste of time or find some interest in. What is it that we do? How many of us are high school students? College students? Which major? How many of us have completed that tedious part of our lives and achieved a career?

I'm a college student, who after months of trial-and-error has finally settled on Philosophy as an appropriate major. I entered school as a psych major, then chem, then physics, then math, then philosophy and physics, and now just philosophy I finally realized that I wasted entirely too much time trying to pick one and just decided to go for the shortest and most enjoyable. Nothin' better than arguing with a classful of people about the validity of the substance of an inanimate object :D Anyway, I plan to eventually become a professor and mess with my own students' minds. I'll throw enough Nietzsche, Plato and Descartes their way to make them question society and reality all the way to the looney bin. I love my major :D How about you guys?

Also, hobbies. Other than gaming, do you guys like anything? I used to take martial arts for a very brief period of time, but temporarily injured my knee, so I'll switch to archery until it heals. I'd call myself an avid comicbook fan, but after recieving more disappointing news in the direction of the X-Titles, I plan to quit them cold turkey (I've said this at least a million times in the past).

Any writers out there? If so, please participate in the FFXI role playing game on http://www.geneticrevolution-home.com (Heh! Shameless plug )

Anyway, this happens to be the aftermath of my sleepless, in-between-class, Tuesday boredom.

[Sheik]

Ok, I will feel guilty if I read this post and don't respond...since I not posted much in a while.

I am current a Junior at a University pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering. I may have around 2-3 years left for my undergraduate degree.

I quite enjoy living here on campus though...it is so nice!

I joined the message boards here around May 2003 but my official date of joining was in July 2003.

I quite enjoy playing PSO and I (was) quite a challenge mode addict. Don't get me wrong, I still like it much and have the maps burned into the back of my mind...but I just have not had as much time lately to play...

I enjoy mostly anything to do with electrical engineering, programming, etc. I had fun working on a keyboard adapter using a PIC micrcontroller...very similar to 'Rinn's design...with credit to him as well for some help! That is really my idea of fun. Does anyone agree with me???

I had a major addiction with PSO...and it started to interfere with my life earlier...gosh that sounds familiar, doesn't it?

I have since gotten away from that addiction...I am glad too!!!

Besides studing EE in school and computer science I have taken an interest in Japanese language　日本語...I typed some on my last post...if you have the fonts installed to view the characters. I find it quite facinating, especially the Kanji (Chinese characters). I can't seem to get enough and being here at the university makes it so much worse! I can actually have friends teach me now!!!笑 I would LOVE to do a study abraod program, or even better a echange program! That would be so cool!

Besides that I have done quite in high school from maintaining computer networks (I used to have a administrative login with more access then almost everyone), to the school newspaper and yearbook designs and video editing (so fun).

I used to work in a retail pet store as a cashier, but have done everything in there form cashiering, to stocking, receiving, supervising, and forklift operating. Name it and I maybe have done it. I resigned from there after 5 3/4 years to move away to college back in January of this year. So, I am now jobless and relying on student loans and parental funding...yeah!!!

オーケ！(OK)
またね～(see you again)
--Sheik