So, as some may know I got accepted to UNC-Asheville for the fall. I’d been try­ing to go for 6 years and kept get­ting sent back to the minor-leagues, but I grad­u­ated last month — and got called up to the majors. I had nearly given up on my dream of higher edu­ca­tion, and now that I’m really there I find myself to be child­ishly excited about all of it, right down to the droll and bor­ing aspects of reg­is­tra­tion and ori­en­ta­tion which I com­pleted last week.

I’m stoked about my sched­ule. Here it is:

• Amer­i­can Indian: Pre-Contact to 1840
• World Civ­i­liza­tions to 1500
• Macro­eco­nom­ics
• Tai-Chi
• Ger­many: Yes­ter­day, Today and Tomorrow
• The United States after 1865

I hope that I am chal­lenged and accepted by my peers. At AB-Tech, I con­sis­tently felt that I had a grasp of the mate­r­ial that exceeded what was expected, and there were many missed oppor­tu­ni­ties to engage the other stu­dents because they had lit­tle broader edu­ca­tional con­text to plug in to. Just ask me about some of the Pow­er­Point fueled pre­sen­ta­tions that I saw get pass­ing grades. Embarass­ing. Edward Tufte would have croaked.

I’ll see you on cam­pus! I’ll be the one with the big smile.