It's my last week of college classes. Exams are soon to follow. I'm taking:
I've got an amplifier to debug and present, some last unit tests/quizzes, and a couple of final exams.
Then I'm done with this degree, and possibly with my formal education. It's an odd feeling. There's plenty of relief, but also some apprehension. I'll finally have the time to try to build something that matters. Something that doesn't exist just to sit on a server, get graded, and then be deleted. I have such high hopes for the future, but the other side of that coin is the fear of letting yourself down.
I remember that feeling of power that came from getting these machines to do what I wanted them to for the first time. Then I matured a little, and realized that, as beautiful a tool as computers are, they're a tool. A means, not an end. I want to use my new freedom to seek ends, put power where it belongs- in service of purpose.
But this is all just prose. I still don't know what I should be doing, I just know that very soon, I will get the space I need to figure it out. For now, I just need to focus in.