Max Beatty

What do Bill Gates, Kanye West, and I all have in com­mon? We all dropped out of col­lege. Ok, I didn’t drop out of col­lege yet, but it def­i­nitely crossed my mind today as I strug­gled to get through the day. My classes this semes­ter are any­thing but chal­leng­ing, and I’m ready to be done […]

Last week I started blog­ging for my dig­i­tal art class along with the rest of my class­mates. Our teacher put together a page of links to everyone’s blog, but I didn’t find that very help­ful so I took it a step fur­ther by cre­at­ing an OPML file I could eas­ily import into Google Reader.

There are some perks to only hav­ing class Mon­days and Wednes­days. For exam­ple, when there’s a national hol­i­day that falls on a Mon­day like Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. Day, I have a whole week vaca­tion! Over my mini-vacation, I got to think­ing about how much paper is wasted dur­ing the first week of classes, not […]

This semes­ter two of my classes are requir­ing that I blog, but nei­ther of them will allow me to use my exist­ing blog. In true blog­ger fash­ion, I’ll be cross­post­ing every­thing here. I per­son­ally think it’s some­what idi­otic I have to do this because I can eas­ily cat­e­go­rize my posts, but it would be irresponsible […]

As part of this semester’s I400 Entre­pre­neur­ship in Infor­mat­ics course, each stu­dent is required to keep a blog and this week’s topic is telling about a time you failed. Fail­ure is an appar­ent inevitabil­ity for every entre­pre­neur and while I’ve had my share of fail­ures along the way, I’ve cho­sen to share my story about […]