Spring is here!

It's supposed to be sixty-seven degrees on Wednesday! Of course, it's currently thirty-six degrees and rainy, but this too shall pass! Apparently spring around here consists of wildly varying weather - reminds me of Texas, actually.

My academics are rapidly approaching their conclusion here at Cornell - the year went by as quickly as I'd hoped/feared. My distributed systems class has been a fantastic source of information - I wish it hadn't been taught by powerpoint, though. I seem to absorb more by being forced to take coherent notes, and knowing the powerpoint slides are available on the web somehow makes that task seem redundant. My entrepreneurship class is about the same - loads of information, but the actual class time (barring the guest speakers) is somewhat useless. I suppose the projects are the main purpose of both, at any rate.

My management class has been a real eye-opener. I've often had a sneaking suspicion I had no real clue what the task of 'management' entails; they sit on the 'other side' of the building and somehow the company keeps running (or not cough*Inktomi*cough). Reading and discussing how other organizations have coped with drastic change in their business environment is interesting stuff. No plans for the MBA yet (I can hear Mel's sigh of relief from here), but I'm no longer so opposed to a job that involves some of that non-techie stuff.

I'm having lunch with my management prof today, actually, though for a completely different reason - he's spent a fair amount of time in Egypt. I'm going to pick his brain for things to do and see, armed with an enormous map and the Lonely Planet Egypt guide. Should be a lot of fun.