Carving Out a Path

Posted: September 25th, 2008 | Author: Seth | Filed under: College, Idea, School, Thought | Tags: adapt, business, College, digital, drexel, education, estate, film, grow, language, learn, media, photo, photography, pyrosarco, real, School, spanish, study, university | No Comments »

I’ve been doing some thinking–which is probably a bad thing knowing me. I think I may have written off Drexel and what it had to offer to hastily. Maybe I just wasn’t mature enough to handle it at the time? I don’t know–but I am glad that I left for various reasons, but in reflection, there are things that I definitley would want to be a part of if I were still in Philly–maybe not much having to do with Drexel, but the opportunities around it.

In the past six and a half months or so that I have been “home” and have had time to evaluate what I want to do with myself, I have been able to come up with some fields that I would like to learn more about. These fields or topics or whatever you would like to lable them as are as follows: Business, Digital Media, Photography, and Language. Specifically:

Business

I want to learn about owning and own property–soon. I am talking about investment properties. Multifamily buildings that I can rent units in. I am looking at this as a steady, less risky way of investing. Sure the economy is really bad right now, and getting a mortgage is going to be a trick. But I think this is a good idea so I am investing my time by taking general business classes.

What does this have to do with owning realestate? Well I think it is good to have an idea what the accountant I will eventually hire, is doing. So I am in a financial accounting class. In general this field has a lot to do with the economy, so I have a macro economics class. And I haven’t ruled out other business investments, so I am in a marketing class.

I still need to learn more–maybe some classes on tax accounting or tax law?

Digital Media

Perhaps my biggest loss leaving Drexel–I don’t know yet. I really love the web so I really want to learn more about developing and designing for it. But I was also kicking around an application idea yesterday for the Project 10 to the 100 that Google is running. However, my idea requires massive amounts of coding which I sort of left behind, but not out of mind, when leaving Drexel.

I need to migrate back to that because it seems that whenever I am faced with a problem, I always start thinking about how a program could make my life so much easier. Structurally, organizationally, and visually–if the program was written how my mind works. Which is a problem since I don’t know how to code (at least not much, my formal C++ training came to an abrupt stop).

But I am also interested in the design aspect and would like to do more with that also. I can come up with some pretty good ideas if given the chance and right knowledge.

Photography

This is really a broad concept for me right now because it contains not only still photography but also film. I took a film class at Drexel and loved it. I would really love doing more of it. Right now I am focusing most of my photographic efforts on the black and white class I am currently taking. Transition your mind back to still cameras so when I say I am using film, you realize it is 35mm and in a little roll that you insert into the back of a camera and rewind when you are done. Yep, I am currently doing photography as an “art” and not those cell phone pictures you call photos.

I want to continue with still photography and am (going to) really intending, to if at all possible, take color photography next semester. I don’t think the college I am currently at offers classes in motion picture?

Languages

I say languages because I want to learn and be fluent in as many as possible. I think it is almost disgraceful to be monolingual today. I only know English, but I am studying Spanish for my 6th year? formally. But can I really count all those years of high school Spanish as a year each? I am still pretty pathetic at Spanish–I could probably survive, but roughly at best.

I really want to be fluent in Spanish by the time I graduate college. There, I need to update that goal because I have added a time objective. After I learn Spanish, I would like to quickly expand to Portugese and Italian. From there maybe a new endeavor of German? Only time will tell.

So there you have it, that is what I want to study. I may mention that I feel the need to be persuing three of these if not all four at a time because they are all important to where I am going and who I want to be. If someone cool is reading this and wants to fund my education or has some awesome program that I should take advantage of–please contact me. pyrosarco [at] gmail [dot] com