Looking back to look ahead

I stumbled upon this quote by Ray Bradbury today,

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Indeed, what a fool I was when I wrote so many of those previous blog entries in the past two years. I laugh at myself for thinking in the way I did ( and still do :O ). I was barking up the wrong tree after all.

To conclude, another quote from Ray Bradbury,

My stories run up and bite me in the leg— I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Counterfeit

And then I stood there with others, wearing those fake graduation robes, hat, and holding that fake degree that I still don't have , posing for the college magazine. They all looked happy even in the fake environment. And I stood there, embarrassed. Even if I had actually completed graduation, I would have been embarrassed to wear those robes. After four years in that place, with those people, I still can't come to terms with calling myself a would be computer engineer. And I guess, whether or not I hold that real degree, I'll always remain an aspiring computer engineer ...