To grad school or work?

It has been awhile since my last post but I've been busy with school. School combined with work seem to be eating up all my time.

Anyways I received a letter yesterday informing me that I've been admitted to the UW-Graduate School. Of course this isn't my first choice (Stanford) but at least I now know graduate school is at least a choice. They haven't told me anything of financial aid and the date for finding that out is April 1st. I can't afford another few years of school so if I don't get a Fellowship, or a TA or RA position work is the way to go. Not only that I got a job offer from VMware that is VERY, VERY, tempting. Well I sort of got one they called and told me about it but I haven't received a piece of paper with the info yet. No need for me to decide yet.

Back at School

WoW (pun intended). Long time no posts. Thanks to World of Warcraft I haven't made any posts or done much else for about a month. This game is just that good.

Anyways, I'm back in Madison and School has begun! I just got done with my first day of classes. Its sort of strange to have my day centered around a few scattered times in where I sit and listen to people lecture. Of course not all my classes are like pure lecture. I'm taking a PE class, Kendo this semester that is 30 minutes of lecture and 1 1/2 of running around hitting things with sticks. (Ok I'm exaggerating there is a lot more to it than just hitting stuff with sticks.)

World of Warcraft

My younger brother gave my World of Warcraft Collectors Edition for Christmas, and I have to say this is the BEST game I've ever played. I'm afraid my life (outside of the computer) will soon be over as I want to play this game 24x7 (excluding sleep, and mealtimes :)). Once again Blizzard has somehow managed to release a great game into an overcrowded genre filled with mediocore to crappy games (EQ, DAOC, AC2 here's looking at you).

Instead of a boring level grind I find my self walking around the world and doing the quests, and yes many of these just involve killing things. There is just something different that makes this game fun to play, something that other MMORPG's have missed. I'm not the only one with this opinion as this game sold more copies than any other PC game on its first day. Additionally this game is OUT OF STOCK at just about every retailer of computer games in the Twin Cities area. Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, EB Games, Gamestop, Target and even Walmart don't have this game in stock. Considering you pay $15 a month to play this after 30 days I can't believe it sold out! The collectors edition sold out in about the first week, I only got one because a friend of my brother was working before christmas returns and grabbed it for him.

Well I need to get back to Azeroth so if you happen to be on Perenolde drop a line to the great mage Jthon.