On this same topic, Mike Peters, pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, gave a brilliant commencement speech at Washington University in St. Louis this May. I admi

On this same topic, Mike Peters, pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, gave a brilliant commencement speech at Washington University in St. Louis this May. I admit though, I consider myself one of the lucky few (and probably stand amongst many of you in this category) for whom doing what I love coincides with doing what actually makes me "successful" by our society's standards. I loved this line though, perfectly described my college experience and discovery of programming: "I was good at lots of other things I did academically, but they all felt like work."