Lazy Sunday...and grad school aspirations

[eiblyn]

I stayed up til about 3am last night watching Dead Poets Society. I had never seen it before and I totally loved it. And I cried buckets. I woke up at roughly 11am (I need to go upstairs soon and meet SA for lunch) so I missed waffles at foodcircus. *sighs* Whatever. I cleaned my room yesterday and it looks fantabulous. I did all of my laundry and it's put away. I still need to read about 200 pages for this week and I better get on that. I need to take a shower.

Life's been pretty good right now. I realized last night what I think I really want to do with the rest of my life. I think I want to work on a project like FEDORA--not the RedHat kind. It just is amazing what's being done and it completely fascinates me. I had forgotten how much I like computers (and I distinctly don't suck at programming...) so I think I might try and get an internship with these people while I'm in grad school. I really just want to work on developing newer/better software for digital repositories/archives/libraries. At the moment, this is a beta idea though so who knows where it will go. It all depends on whether or not I continue being capable at what I'm already learning. *shrugs* Who knows... But I'm definitely thinking grad school in Michigan because all of the research done there by the faculty is in digital preservation.

Comments

Yep yep yep

[cap22.livejournal.com]

From what I understand about open source projects, and I could be wrong, is that they are worked on freely. Meaning, the end-user gets them for free. Programmers don't get paid to work on them or make contributions for them. Like I said, I could be wrong, but I was just making sure you knew of this before deciding it was a good career choice ;).

Re: Yep yep yep

[eiblyn.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's paid through a grant. But I really want to work on something like that...not necessarily that. I think I've discussed with you before my real aspirations when it comes to digital records.

[blueathena.livejournal.com]

I love that movie. Absolutely LOVE it. *sigh* such a beautiful one.

[trg.livejournal.com]

The digital library here at Tufts is running Fedora. From what I've heard of it, I'm rather intrigued.

[eiblyn.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yeah...it's pretty cool and grant funded and stuff. Right now I'm just really playing around with what I want. *smiles* I'm so indecisive right now. But that's allowed. I still have a year or so before I have to get everything together.