Summer 2007

It’s the end of August and I am back to college. This marks the official end of summer of 2007. Here’s what I managed to do and not do:

Summer ’07 achievements:
– I am finally on the track to doing what I like. I started coding on my startup. I made decent progress for 3 weeks, considering how many things I had to learn. It is also the first idea that I have actually started building, so that has its significance too.
– I made some Flash sites and accordingly some money that I can use for school.
– I took the CLEP marketing test from CollegeBoard. I saved $1200 and 1 semester time for not taking the class at college.
– Took a summer class in Econometrics. Got A. It was important to pass, since it is a prerequisite to any other class that I have left on my senior schedule.
– I got in the habit of reading books. I read a bunch of decent ones. Reviews of some can be found on this blog.
Not bad for summer. I also had some fun:
– I did manage to go home for 10 days. Haven’t been in Bulgaria summertime for 3, maybe 4 years, so this was great. I saw most of my important friends. Quality experience. I had a good amount of family time too.
– I did go to a wonderfully relaxing 1 week vacation to Costa Rica with my American family. Big nice house, amazing weather, lots of sleep, decent amount of reading, soccer with locals, delicious food served 3 times a day in the house, warm ocean (warm ocean, hear that!) swimming/surfing.

Summer ’07 flops:
– I thought I might be able to finish my prototype for the startup. It is number one priority and is coming soon I promise.
– I didn’t manage to convince Baruch College that I don’t need Tier III for my degree, and I would rather take CIS minor than one that satisfies this Tier III. Baruch didn’t think so. I have to be like everybody else. 7 different offices were quite united around this issue. Was angry but after all, “Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig” by Robert Heinlein. Taking psychology with some cool brain/thinking classes. It’s also somewhat connected to my startup so it’s acceptable.
– I didn’t make really a lot of friends. Maybe because I am too busy and introverted currently. Maybe because people are in general very in a hurry in NYC. I dunno. Want to be my friend? Now accepting…