Sorry everybody, but last week just pwned me. I had tests back to back, so my biological clock is totally off. I will try to restructure my thoughts and post more often.

At the moment, I’m involved in many many things. I’m doing internet marketing to pay for my college tuition as well as give me some startup capital and seed money. I have several sites I would like to get off the ground, while learning PHP, MySQL, and all that jazz. I also have a brick and mortar business idea that will require me to talk to a patent attorney in the near future. Fun so far, right?

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Lesson 2: From Puppy to Cardinal

I was looking though my 8th grade middle school yearbook the other day and I just realized how much people change in just a mere five years. I’m looking though all the autographs and all I could make out were phrases like “Stay Hot!” “Stop dating 6th graders.” “AzN PiMp!” “Got Rice?” “Let’s play CS.” “Cya at BHS.” 512Mb of RDRAM also happened to be beast back then. “Bloody Child” decided to take up a whole page for her autograph, and my Algebra I teacher was kind enough to say that I will rule the world. So all in all, at that time I was a hot azn cs player 6th grader pimp who was destined to rule the world, but first had to go to BHS. So I did just that…

Bellaire High School certainly was different than Lanier. First of all, no more “Purple and Red” days or block schedule, this means no more putting off homework for a day. Homework was due the next day after class. I thought I was going to die. There wasn’t a strict dress code either, so now I had to decide what to wear each morning! There were no curly fries in the cafeteria, it was a long walk home each day in the blistering humid Houston heat, and sodas were five cents more. I was obviously not looking forward to my high school days.

During my freshman year, most of my classes happened to be Pre-AP/IB classes, which meant that I was “gifted,” and wanted to hang out with Asians more often. Classes like Biology didn’t make any sense to me, other than sperm having glucose as an artificial sweetener. Geometry made me dislike math to this day, even when I enjoyed Algebra I. My English teacher couldn’t put up with me being tardy all the time. I think the only class I enjoyed was office aid, because I learned how to use a stapler. I rarely participated in school clubs, so I guess one could say I wasn’t too enthusiastic about the whole idea of school.

Goals at the time: 5.0GPA and don’t get beat up in school. Perfect the AWP in Counter-Strike.

But I knew one year later, I would be laughing at all the incoming freshmen. So learn to hate your freshman year, but embrace the rest of your time. Just remember we were all freshmen at some point in our lives.

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Makes you wonder if you’re being at all productive in physics class.

If this is the next generation of thinkers, scientists, and entrepreneurs… we’re in big trouble.

$20,000 in student loans seems fun. I also love exams! Right.

Let this be a message to all those wasting away their time in college doing trivial things. Facebook won’t be around in 4 years, but you certainly will.

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Lesson 1: So I begin…

I can’t say I remember much of my childhood. It all seems like a blur as time flies by. So I’ll try to wrap up the adolescent years of my life in a few paragraphs.

You know how it is, you come into a world that is so massive, yet you are so small. You never know what role you play on this beautiful earth, all you know is that Antarctica is going away because Al Gore said so (whether you believe that or not). Yet, I believe that I am a child of God. He has placed me on this earth to fulfill a specific purpose – A purpose that may take decades to unravel, or hit me in a moment of clarity.

Now, most people usually don’t start entrepreneuring at the tender age of two to three, but according to my parents, I worked 40 hours a week including overtime at my job in the cradle, which happened to be crying. Not satisfied with my job, I worked harder till I finally got promoted to diaper destroyer. See? I honestly don’t remember too much of those days, other than I had loving parents who took good care of me through the calm and the storm.

Goals at the time: Finding the perfect escape route out of the cradle.

During the elementary school years, it was Pokémon and Pokémon cards. That’s all I remember. Well, aside from playing Solitaire and Math Blaster Episode I: In Search of Spot on Windows 3.1. River Oaks Elementary also had a cool “Nature Garden” that I helped develop. Did you know that Amazon.com CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, is ROE alumni? How awesome is that?

Goals at the time: Catching all 150 Pokémon.

Middle school was a bit different, since games became more advanced with the advent of Windows 95/98/2000. Starcraft, Rollercoaster Tycoon, and Counter-Strike all took center stage. I actually built my first computer in the 8^th grade. A classmate of mine said it couldn’t be done. You should see the look on his face when I pulled out the receipts and started preaching in pure technobabble. For those fellow nerds out there who want to know the specs:

• AMD 1.4Ghz Thunderbird 266Mhz FSB
• Generic 512Mb of pc133 SDR RAM
• ECS K7S5A Motherboard (had to go through 4 revisions to get a stable board!)
• VisionTek Xtasy nVidia Geforce 3 Ti 200

Goals at the time: Get the highest 3Dmark01 score.

During my middle school years, I also came to painful realization that there are girls on this planet as well. If I had to make a chronological list of my encounters with girls, it would look like this:

1. Dan goes after girl 1.
2. Girl 2 goes after Dan.
3. Dan gets girl 1.
4. Dan loses girl 1 next day.
5. Dan is immature and loses both girls.

I just realized that my laundry still needs to be folded, so I need to get right on that. But the lesson here is simple. During your adolescent years, you just take it easy, and find what you love to do. That love will soon manifest itself, and begin to shape you into the person you were destined to be. For me it was my addiction to computers, how about you?

Also guys… don’t start thinking that you need women in your lives, your bank account will appreciate it. Plus, there’s always plenty of fish. I leave it to the man upstairs to be my “net.”

The next several lessons will be slower paced as I am heading into high school, where I learned a lot of lessons.

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Sorry guys and gals, I’ve been extremely busy with school work. I have an extremely fun calculus assignment due later today, so I figured it might be a good idea to get started on it.

Be on the look out after Friday, for I will be posting my “Lessons.” These “Lessons” are not confined to any one topic. In fact, they are a brief summary of some of my life altering choices that have shaped me into who I am today. So be sure to check back!

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