After over a year of neglect QuasiControl is back online. However this blog has been reborn with a new purpose. During the last go around I wrote for you. I wanted to be funny and witty. I tried to chose topics that I predicted you all wanted to read about. This is going to change. If I’m going to keep a blog its going to be for myself and I will be my own intended audience. I’m not going to polish these posts very much and I’m going to reveal a bit more about myself.
2011 has been a big year for me with a lot of changes and I’ve got big aspirations for 2012 most of which I hope to talk about on this blog. However before I start into 2012 I want to take some time to point out some of the things I got done in 2011. I’m going to do most of these in list form.
- Presented my work on Bayesian decoding COSYNE in Utah
- Passed my Oral Qualifying Exam
- Successfully Proposed my Thesis
- Published my first Android app
- Published my first iPad/iPhone App
- Published my second Android app (now has over 350K installs)
- Presented my work on Bayesian decoding at SfN in Washington DC
- Finished my course work
- Acquired the final set of data I need for my thesis work
- Submitted by resume to a few big tech companies
- Heard back no from a few big tech companies
- Spent a week reworking my resume and sent it to the same companies
- Heard back asking me to apply for jobs
- Re-learned C++ and began teaching myself OpenGL
I’ve come up with a few goals for 2012. I’m not going to list them all out but hopefully I’ll write about each of them in more detail in the future. But by the end of the year I sincerly hope to have a few things worked out.
- Path to graduation mapped out. This could mean that I’m done with my analysis and am writing my dissertation.
- I’ve made a decision about my professional future. Wether its to go work for a big company like Google, move to Europe, teach at a small university, start a business.
- Lose some weight. I’ve been needing to lose weight for a while now and I have to start.
- Waste less time at home. When I’m home I need to be spending the time in meaningful ways.
- Form more meaningful relationships with my siblings. I’ve been away in boston now for a few years and I hardly talk to most of them. Over the last few years I’ve changed a lot and I’m certain many of them aren’t sure how to relate to my anymore. I want to fix this.
leslie ann
/ January 2, 2012love you stu, i cant belive all that you did this year. you are amazing
Mark
/ January 21, 2012Right on, man. I completely, 100% support your new purpose for your blog. I’ve maintained over a dozen blogs over the years, and the ones I actually enjoyed and look back on with fondness were those that I did first and foremost because I enjoyed the process – not because I wanted others to read and connect. My current blog, though not explicitly stated, is for my own benefit, not others’. There’s not even a way for people to comment on it. And this blog is very good for me. So I support your new aim. Of course, this isn’t to say that some blogs have a very different purpose, and an audience is a big part of that. But as for personal blogs, I think the “write for myself” approach works wonderfully.