Welcome to my blog. Well, first things first: the title of the default/sample post when I created this blog was just as it appears above – “Hello world!” – and while I do intend to create many posts boasting creative and eye-catching titles, I felt it was apropos to retain the original default title. For one, this is my first foray into blogging (beyond a brief, sophomoric attempt in college which I will never, ever try to emulate) and thus it’s only fitting to greet the world, or at least this limited (but also infinite) world of bloggers and blog-readers. Is there a term for blog-readers? Blogees? Spectators? I digress already…
Secondly, when I was in college I took an introductory computer science course called “Hello World!” in which I learned, among other things, how to kick academic, social, and fiscal butt by employing an entrepreneurial spirit. In the independent study that accompanied the seminar, I weasled my way into reading literature instead of writing complex computer programs, thus molding the course to my own real interests. I learned PHP, CSS, and Javascript in order to present the culminating literature paper in an interactive, web-based format. Going above and beyond the parameters of what was assigned prompted my teacher to offer me a paid summer research internship, and by the next fall I was designing web sites for a couple people. While my technological expertise has gone by the wayside in the past couple years, my hope is that this blog will chronicle my attempt to recapture that entrepreneurial spirit. Plus, I can’t help but mention that this blog is really a testing ground to see if I like WordPress better than other blogging resources. So, “Hello, WordPress!” You’re on the hotseat.
All title-musings aside, I hope this blog provides an opportunity for me to strengthen my sense of self and also to hone my writing skills. If you have suggestions about the latter, please don’t hesitate to pipe up. If you have suggestions about the former, well… find me in person and we can talk about it over coffee.
