There's this guy across the way from my apartment: every time I walk into my
living room he's there, drinking beer and sitting on the couch; he's
generally watching TV or just surfing the net on his laptop. I stare at him
a lot... I hope he doesn't think I'm weird.

I'm not sure how people do it; to toss one's time away like that is so
disrespectful *to* *yourself*, but I know too many people who whittle their
time into oblivion to write it off as a unique quirk of the guy who lives
across the way.

I need every waking second to live; what does it say about you when you toss
away your time like that?

### Explore your own Taste

Music, literature, pornography, food. It doesn't matter: just do it, if not
only yourself then do it for me. By exploring those areas of yourself with
which you may not be entirely comfortable with you can have a lot of
fun while at the same time becoming a more well-rounded, open-minded young
man.

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Since January I've met up every Tuesday with the same four other people; By the
time we graduate (this coming Winter) we're tasked with designing,
prototyping, and deploying a device for our coroporate sponsor. I cannot say
much about our project in particular (under contract) but I can tell you
that it will take the full commitment of all five of us to push this device
out; even though we are all electrical / computer engineers by trade we all
have our own specializations: someone is good with motors, someone is good
with microcontrollers, someone is good with computer vision systems... so on
for all of us.

When we work, we work effectively: designating tasks, reviewing progress,
and setting goals. I didn't realize how much I enjoy leading a team like
that until I made myself do it...

That's the sort of thing I am missing with my personal projects: since I
began writing software some number of years ago nobody I approached seemed
interested in working together... there are countless well-documented ideas,
dreams, designs in my personal notebook that I would love to make a reality
but... something domineers me every day: every day it's *time*.

### Time

Cooking, cleaning, homework, classwork, exercise. All of the typical things I
love do so get in the way of my more exciting adventures so often. But what
we define as *exciting* may differ. Instead of sleeping-in one should rather
brew coffee and scribble in a diary. Instead of talking with the
boring everyday cast of characters one should rather make time for the people who
really make a difference in one's life and with the people one can make a
difference with too. Instead of watching TV or browsing the Internet or
caring about Politic one could spend their time better doing pretty much
anything else.

Learn to make that distinction between good and bad taste and then stop
listening to me entirely.