My first blog!

Well I feel a little behind on the blogging tymes, but I guess it's never too late to start, huh?

Ellen and I have just finished our 7th semester at Harding University Yesterday! Hoorah! This semester has been, without a doubt, the most challenging and the most demanding semester of my college life. Most of that is to be attributed to one class in particular - what we like to refer to as "Soft-Dev". ARRGH! It's in sane! My major is Computer Science - and in Software Development (the capstone course for CS majors), you're given 4-5 people, a chess game, 2 computers, and 3 months to come up with a product that will dazzle the CS faculty. And this is not a lecture class at all, mind you. No guidance from professors, you're on your own!

Well, I didn't accomplish as much as I would've liked to in this class. I didn't really completely delve in to any new tool or programming language like some of the others in my class. But I also am proud of the work that I did get done taking into account my hourly load this semester.

Just a side note: One of my pet peeves (or however you spell it!) with computers, is that in alot of e-mailing/blogging environments it seems that whenever you're typing a message and hit TAB, it doesn't tab, it takes you to the next hot spot on the page instead of actually tabbing over a few lines. I hate that - but I'm just noticing that one is able to tab in blogger!! Hooray for blogger!

Today I am kinda stuck working in a computer lab on Harding campus on the last day of finals week. I signed up to work 9 to 5. I guess one reason that I did this is because I've been having to take off quite a few hours of work during the semester becuase of my chess game. And Ellen and I aren't going out of town right away. There are hardly any students on campus at this point in the week - but we still have to keep the labs open just in case the few who are still here need the computers for projects.

I think I'm going to be back in a bit...

~ josh (does one normally sign a blog post?)