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I can’t exactly say that I’m disappointed. Last year’s was very stressful and I didn’t want to go through that again (though getting the money felt good). Besides, I’ve got plans for the summer anyway.

Maybe I could have gotten accepted if I weren’t too wimpy to read the comments made about my applications. I have low self-esteem already, and I hate getting it lowered even more with criticism. I know Google says that criticism is good and normal and not to be taken personally, but that’s hard.

I may work on my pet project anyway, if I have the time.

Unfortunately, most of my ideas were weekend projects. I could only think of two that are worthy of being summer projects. One isn’t programming and the other is something that no one cares about. So, now all I have to do now is pretend to think I have a chance and answer their questions and then wait to be rejected. Playing games is fun, isn’t it?

Why I am

1. I’ve taken Principles of Management and am taking Introduction to Business. I know more about how business works.
2. I’ve taken Technical Writing. Hopefully, I’m more prepared to write proposals and reports.
3. I have a web cam with a built-in microphone, so I can hopefully engage in voice chats with my mentor, like Google wants me to.
4. I have a list of things I want to apply for, where I just thought of a couple things off the top of my head last year.
5. I have decided against majoring in computer science (though I want my AS in computer science, to give me an advantage against the graduates who are just in the field but can’t program a computer), so I’m less likely to view the slightest type of failure as the end of the world.

Why I’m not

1. I’m still terribly sensitive. I nearly broke into tears in College Algebra last night. Luckily, I was able to hold back my tears until I got into the car, though. Say one little thing to me and I fall apart; just ask my previous mentor. But that’s just a part of my personality and it’s something people have to deal with. However, see point 5 above.

I previously mentioned my intention to make Bojo. Bojo is a way to keep people posted of your life by posting short messages to your blog. Bojo is designed to be kinda like Twitter. The name (pronounced boy-o) is Esperanto, for bark.

Version 0.2 is here. It has a simple PHP function, bojo(), that you can use anywhere in your theme. You can also use widgets to place it in your sidebar without any knowledge of programming. From my preliminary testing, it’s compatible with WordPress 2.5.

I requested to have this hosted on the WordPress plugins directory and was denied (surprise, surprise, given the team’s past and current animosity toward me). The main reason I wanted it hosted there is so if I got any users, they’d be alerted of updates. It should have a short release cycle, so I doubt I’ll need version control (Subversion or whatever). If I do, I guess I’ll go over to SourceForge. They host my RSS reader and don’t seem to have any problems with me.

History

• 0.2.1 (2008-03-07 7.3 kilobytes): Some minor bugs fixed; most notably, Bojo posts don’t appear in your main list of blog entries (only from wherever the bojo() function is called, be it by a widget or directly).
• 0.2 (2008-03-02 8 kilobytes): Widget support; better support for customization; better coding; more care for uninstallation.
• 0.1 (2008-02-27 142 bytes): Initial point-of-concept release.