What they should have told me is “enjoy the flexibility of your schedule while in school”. Its not that I am working any more hours at my job (I’m usually pulling out of the parking lot by the time 5:01 rolls around), but rather that I am at my job at 8am whether I like it or not. College has the great luxury of taking Monday to play super smash for 4 hours, Tuesday to put in 15 hours on the autonomous robot and parallel processing model, Tuesday night to have a 6 pack, and sleep all day Wednesday. The best part of all is that the next week doesn’t have to, and most likely wont, be the same. I’ve been told that as I grow older I’ll appreciate the more predictable schedule.  Maybe this will be the case when I am married and have kids, but right now I feel like an angry toddler roped into a play pen.

I’ve been back and forth in my head about taking an extra year to go to grad school and get a quick masters.  The decision is becoming more and more of an obvious answer in favor of going, solely due to the fact that I can take an extra full year to pursue getting situated with a product or service of my own. Believe me when I say that the masters tag on my diploma is a great thing to have to put on a resume and to tell my family and friends that I came to college and wooped its ass. Believe me when I say that I will continue to recommend to my friends and mentees that graduate school is excellent opportunity to enhance your value to the workforce. And believe me when I say that graduate school is a great way to give yourself another year or two to let your creative license flow round the clock as you pursue that which gets you up in the morning (whether it be 6am or 2pm), and that which keeps you up into the wee hours of the night working incessantly to achieve nothing short of absolute brilliance.