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 with col­lege. First, I reviewed basic unix com­mands in a 400 level infor­mat­ics class. Then, I had to take oral roll call and notes over a poorly done PBS doc­u­men­tary. Finally, I sat for 3 hrs in a com­puter lab watch­ing weird japan­ese movies that were sup­posed to inspire me to pro­duce dig­i­tal art? I should have saved my tuition money and just googled “perl search engine”, “japan­ese intern­ment”, and “pho­to­shop tuto­ri­als” instead of enrolling in classes this semester.

Then my day turned around. I watched the Daily Show’s Inau­gu­ra­tion cov­er­age, LOST pre­miered, and then Gary Vayn­er­chuk made a timely, inspir­ing post enti­tled Stop cry­ing, think, wipe your tear and crush it!. I’d received Twit­ter replies from both my room­mates say­ing I’ve been com­plain­ing a lot lately, and they were right.

@maxbeatty you are com­plain­ing a lot these days. (tweet)

@maxbeatty i’m going to stop fol­low­ing you if you don’t stop com­plain­ing about your stu­pid classes and then post­ing links that i don’t click (tweet)

I’ve decided I’m going to roll with my high school level courses, stop obsess­ing about how igno­rant I think some of my teach­ers are, and find some­thing I’m pas­sion­ate about to “crush” in Gary’s words. I know I hate being bored and hav­ing noth­ing to do. Most peo­ple are sur­prised when they hear how soon I’m start­ing my job after grad­u­a­tion, but I know if I sit around I’ll be mis­er­able. I haven’t done any­thing pro­duc­tive in over a month and I’m going crazy!

I’ve started revamp­ing my site and from there I’m going to start tack­ling my long tech-related to-do list. I may not have a Face­book up my sleeve like Mark Zucker­berg or even a Twit­Pic like Noah Everett, but I’m going to work it to keep a leg up on the competition!