Today in calculus we learned about compound interest. I finally found out, not only what APR and APY stand for, but also what they actually mean.

I went to a panel this evening of 3 digital media professionals. One was an executive of AOL who spoke on the evolution of virtual spaces and also had a really fascinating bit about how venture capital and start up businesses actually work. One was a senior producer at Electronic Arts; he spoke on gaming as a passion and a profession. The most interesting of the three was a programmer from Blizzard; he spoke on real nitty gritties of breaking into the games industry, the importance of specialization, the importance of perseverance. He gave me the most defined sense of what level of experience was actually needed to become a professional programmer. He was a tools programmer and he mentioned how the most frustrating thing about that particular position is that he could not point to any particular part of a shipped game and say "that, that thing right there, that was me", but it was a small complaint next to the mountain of awesome that was working in games.

I soooo wanna be that guy O_O!!!!