And this is what pulls me close

Every now and then I find something that gets my attention, something I wish I could do, and something that I could actually (probably) do.  I am looking at the robot that I have gotten last week.  There are many like it, but this one is mine… for now.

No, I cannot say that I find it cute.  It looks like a Roomba prototype without the vacuuming apparatus and with double-A batteries as source of power.  I have a feeling that it will suck through them like Game Gear on a holiday.

So far, I can’t do anything with it.  I have connected it to the computer using Bluetooth module that came with it… and as a test, I used the included joyStick software to move it around (or roll it around, if it were).  It is growing on me, though.  Yes, I thought about actually buying it and tinker with it on my own, but no, I am not going to do that; I will try my hand on the iRobot Create if computer science tickles my fancy.

And tickle my fancy it does.  Consider if I went to, say, a field in English.  I do not mind teaching English, although I sometimes have erratic accents that pop out, unwarranted, as though the shackle that chained it behind the oh-so-practiced “American” accent has been torn off by the forces unknown.  I probably know more about grammar and spelling and word usage than your average American.  I, however, am not terribly interested in it; I just wanted to write, and be a novelist of sort that will leave my name in a hardcover book.  It’s a lovely idea, but I do not think I participate enough during English classes to do well in it.  It is just a hunch, of course… I am pretty sure the last instructor I had for creative writing class was not too fond of me.  Just a hunch.

But the CIS department in my college is more highly regarded than the CS one.  What am I to do?  Do I toil through the business classes for rudimentary knowledge of coding and hardly an algorithm?  Or do I jump into the world filled to the brim with math, choking under the weight of integrals and theoretical numbers?

I think I will need to talk to my advisor about this.

But I hope that things will turn out to be all right, and it will serve me well in my lifetime… and I pray that the things I learned will not be turned to naught.