Geekflex

Adventures in post-college life

Welcome to Geekflex

Why am I starting a new blog?

Because I finally feel like I have something to say. My personal blog in the past was just that — personal. It was more like an online, public diary than anything else. I never had any ideas about what direction I wanted to take it in, and what I should say on it. It existed for the sake of existing. Then Twitter came along and provided an outlet for all those little personal-things-I-wanted-to-say and effectively ate my blog. In the meantime a lot of things have changed — I’ve changed, too — and now I know what I want to talk about.

Graduating from university brought about many changes in my life. It was a complete 180-degree turn. When I was in school I always felt like I was going forward, and now I feel like I’m looking back more than ever. All the goals I had set for myself as a student, I’ve achieved. Following graduation, those goals are in the past. For a while I felt like my best years were behind me, and what a bummer that was. I thought “Is this it? Is this what I spent all that time in school for? Well this sucks.” And I longed to go back. If I could do it all over again I think I’d take one course per semester and stretch the fun out for as long as possible.

Then it happened. I became inspired. It hit me that growing up doesn’t have to suck so much. If I can’t find the things in life that make me happy, then I can invent them. Instead of whining about life, I’m going on a mission. I’m on a mission to make growing up suck less. My mission will be documented here, on Geekflex.

Here are just some of the topics I have bouncing around in my head even now:

  • What was missing in my university education
  • How the “professional” life contrasts with the student life
  • What makes being a new grad suck, and how it could be made better
  • Life, the Universe, and Everything

I’m going to make life awesome again.

  • http://www.pierre-nick.com/2009/02/18/to-dos/ Pierre-Nick is dynamik » To-Do’s

    [...] Join things, comities, groups, contribute to a project … but outside of school To prepare myself for what is now the scare of my life: post-university. I don’t want to ever say “the best years of my life are behind me”. This makes me think a lot. I need to keep the awesome going on forever, but most probably in different ways. And i know i’m not the only one. [...]

  • AfrikanPrince

    First! :P

  • Juan

    Good luck Skrud! Looking forward to all the cool stuff you will write about! :D

  • Sandy

    I’m glad that you’ve been inspired! huggles And that there’s another person who realized that life doesn’t have to suck if they don’t want it to and do something about it. Yay for action!

  • Vijeta Patel

    I’m looking forward to your new blog posts. It was time for a change!

  • Christelle

    Make growing up suck less…I really like that idea! ^_^

  • http://lovehateubuntu.blogspot.com Rob Britton

    Dude, you have completely echoed my thoughts. That was an awesome conference, and I’m feeling the same way. Congrats!

  • http://msutherl.net Morgan

    Fuck yeah!

  • http://www.settlersofcatanboardgame.net Jeanie Sobel

    5 star article brilliant. I am new to blogging and you simply used a langauge I can understand

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