When I was in college, I remember a specific meeting I had with my computer science advisor who was at that time Prof. Greg Morrisett, who now has a chaired professorship at Harvard. The guy is generally a badass and he looks like Ewan McGregor. He knew a little bit about my background, especially all the math I had done in high school. We talked a little bit about how I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I remember he said something like, “a smart person like you are should try many different things.” I appreciated it not entirely as a compliment, nor for being a justification for bumming around, but sort of as an attempt to suggest to me that he (and his best friends) had felt that way before. Ya know, the way I felt then. That the only thing separating him from me was time. I think the demystification of life for me comes largely from that understanding.
I played Starcraft under the alias smalter.
I live in New York City.
I read email sent to smalter at gmail dot com.
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2009-02-03
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deepalc reblogged this from smalter and added:
And when you finally get there, or to the ultimate, seismic failure...laid out for you,...
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