Girl Meets Geekdom

And how do I know? Because I’m back in Ithaca!

That’s right, I’ve returned to Cornell for the Spring 2008 semester to finish my MEng in Computer Science.

“But wait!” You say, “Weren’t you happily employed at EA as a technical artist for the Sims Division?!” Well, after a good year and a half, it seemed like a good opportunity to leave EA and finish that MEng degree that was put on hold for quite some time.

“So you give up this:

for this!?”

Uhhh…yeah…it seemed like a much better decision at the time…

Am I crazy? Is this just me dealing with my quarter life crisis? Whyyyyy would I do something like this?

I don’t expect anyone who hasn’t left school to really understand. The short answer: to me, this is about life goals and accomplishing what you set out to accomplish. The long answer? Ask me in person. It’s really a longer schpeel about personal goals, doing the things you can do at school and nowhere else, timing, risks, and maybe something about wanting to be a designer. (Even though I’ll be the first to admit, after a year and a half, tech art might actually be my true calling…but one would never know for sure)

Yes, it’s a gutsy move. But, as my lead and mentor at work once said, “Down the road, you’ll come to realize that right now, no decision you make can be the wrong decision.”

Every once in a while I get a notion to start blogging again. I constantly think about the things I would write. Every once in a while I’ll even open up a word processor, pick out one of the longer, more thought provoking topics, and write a few sentences. Somehow, it never really pans out.

Once, at a job interview, the interviewer looked at the wide variety of projects I included on my resume and asked me how I managed to do it all. I replied, “at some point you just have to stop thinking about what you are going to do and do it.”

I’ve been pretty bad about that for a while now…but here’s a first step.