Back to School

I’ve always maintained that computing represents only one of my interests, that I would never give up on fostering the others as I started my career. Also, I realize that with the career field I’m in now, there isn’t a lot of room for advancement unless I branch out into management-level work, or find a different career field.

That said, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to pursuing a graduate program at a local university here in Virginia. I went to the DMV late last week and got a VA drivers license and registered my car, so I guess for college tuition purposes I’m considered in-state. The other requirement for selecting a school, besides having decent programs, would be that they offer these decent programs in the evenings to people who work full-time during the day. It would also be cool if the campus was metro accessible, though if I can stop in on the way home from work in the evening that would be fine too.

I’m also thinking about which programs to pursue, trying to find something that really does interest me (enough to write papers, research heavily, and get stressed about) that would also be beneficial for a career someday. I’ll mull this over some more and post my finalized, well thought out ideas sometime in the near future.