I am graduating! at Daniel Spisak on Technology

Okay everyone, this is the day none of you have been waiting for! I finally got my grade for my last quarter at UCI and I passed all of the classes!

What this means is that barring any bizzare unforeseen circumstances (i.e. I owe the uni money somehow, I turn out to be a figment of my own imagination, etc) I should be officially graduated from UC Irvine with my bachelors degree in Information and Computer Science.

So what does this mean for you, the non-existant reader who cares about this? Well since UCI only does commencement once a year it means I wont walk until June 2008 roughly, and tickets for commencement go on sale sometime in March I am told. It supposedly takes the university about seven weeks to process the paperwork to certify and print a degree at which point they either mail it to my permanent mailing address or notify me that its read to be picked up.

I already have a job as a consultant which I am now going to be working for full-time basically with benefits and other nice things which should help me out a lot with my stupid money troubles finally. The plan so far is to spend some time paying off my small remaining debt and taking car of a few things on the car I have had to put off and then getting a decent amount of cash saved up before moving out of the parents house.

Now as far as celebration of my graduation goes, frankly I have no idea when it will happen or what shape it is going to take. This is complicated by the fact that basically I am already working full-time and have some big projects in the works already for CES (which I am going to again to work) and some other stuff. I would like to have a party with all of you people that could/would want to do such a thing as soon as I can figure out a good time for it. Odds are sometime the weekend after CES or in Janurary sometime since everyone is going crazy with holiday events.

About the Author

Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.

I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.

This blog is one of the main locations where I do my writing, which is then automatically sent to my LiveJournal, VOX, and MySpace accounts. I can also be found on a variety of social networking and microblogging sites like Pownce, Twitter, Brightkite, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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