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Let's see. 1997 I was finishing up seventh grade. I homeschooled from then to graduation, so really the first six years I was here are a blur, one day being pretty much like the next. Spent 2002-2006 in college getting degrees in CS and computer engineering, partly just because they said I couldn't possibly do both in four years. Got over my eternal crush on my childhood little redheaded girl by realizing she really wasn't that pleasant and that other girls did exist. Pursued and went out with a few over the next few years, only to discover all were either already into someone else, potentially insane, or both. Finally found a spectacularly beautiful girl in my junior year while finally taking freshman engineering. A year later I finally convinced her she liked me, during my last semester. I graduated, went to grad school for electrical engineering and hated it with a fiery depressing passion. Got engaged, left my GRA spot to make more money, got a real job as an embedded systems engineer, and now I'm waiting for my fiancee to graduate so we can get married.
Bit of a jump from a 13 year old.
It's been a fun, hellish ride. I thank God I didn't get everything I wanted. I'd be miserable if I had.
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quote:Originally posted by Omega: ...other girls did exist. ... potentially insane...
Most are.
quote:Originally posted by Omega: ...finally convinced her she liked me...
See, another one.
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: I remember one night about 18 months before we split, she burst in to the room while I was slowly* surfing the net thinking she'd catch me looking at po rn.... To bad the site I was lurking about on was the BG site.
BG = Behaviour Group or Battlestar Galactica?
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Daniel Butler
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Ah, good, someone who can actually tell me - what the hell does a computer engineer do? Nobody seems to know.
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Ah, good, someone who can actually tell me - what the hell does a computer engineer do? Nobody seems to know.
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A computer engineer is an electrical engineer who eschews the power and em fields side of electricity to focus more on computer hardware. We're more likely to design chips, lay out boards for processors, program embedded systems, that kind of thing.
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Ok... well it's good to see you again Omega.
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Teh PW
Self Impossed Exile (This Space for rent)
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i'm still waiting on a cute name or door prize or something... anything, under name. do we have collect 2000 members before the 1000 gets a tag...
or a door prize?
maybe a named Door prize...?
anyyyyyywhhhhho, in Dec, 1997, i was stationed at NAS Jacksonville (FL), getting ready to leave for another school and a year tour in Bahrain. I met someone wonderful, who effected me many, many years later... but 'spanish bootie' does that for me, go figure.
and i still roar with giggles on my Whipcream & Saranwrap story during that holiday season...
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You would think that the Navy could spring for naming their NASs.
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