Last week our team gave our final presentation, sealing the deal on my Master’s program at Carnegie Mellon University (School of Computer Science, Master of Information Technology in eBusiness Technology).
Because that’s what you do with your Dad – you celebrate the big things:
(Fun fact: the building above is the Mellon Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I took all my major exams here, and it was the… (wait for it)… BANE of my existence. It is also a filming location from Dark Knight Rises, with the actual BANE standing on the steps. Way too poetic.)
I’d like to thank many people for their encouragement and support. To all my teachers and mentors, thank you for instilling in me a reverence for education and a desire to always be learning (specifically a big fat mahalo to my good friend, mentor, and teacher Paul Wilson). To my parents and in-laws, for supporting and believing in me. And most of all, the biggest of thanks to Allison, for being my motivation and my inspiration, for being practically a single mother during this year, for her patience, and for her faith in me when I couldn’t muster any in myself.
Freedom!
We spent my first breath of freedom on a day trip to Washington DC, a beautiful drive from Pittsburgh, but less beautiful with Small Baby singing us her road trip song… which was actually crying. Sorry, sometimes I’m not good at jokes.
It was a beautiful day, and if anybody knows anything about my Dad and I, they’d know how stoked we were to be there, standing at times mere metres (when in Rome? I think not) away from where world-changing ideas have been debated and world-changing decisions have been made. It was humbling to gaze up in the Jefferson Memorial. Standing at Lincoln’s Temple, on the very step where MLK told thousands of his Dream, I felt… unworthy.
So what’s the new game?!
I’m very excited to be moving on with my career in Digital Marketing! I’ve accepted a great position as an account manager with an excellent digital marketing agency called MWI. We’ll be packing up our bags and moving from Pittsburgh back to Arizona, this time to Queen Creek. We expect to have many Winter Refugees coming for visits!
Dear Pittsburgh,
Thank you for the delicious peanut butter burgers, the cheap soda, the almost-too-cheesy pizza, the beautiful architecture, the intriguing history, the worst pedestrians in the developed world, the stupidest freeway entrance procedures, the coolest sports culture, and some of the greenest views. Catch you on the flip side!
Hello, my name is James.
I'm an Experience Chaser, Peanut-Gallery Philosopher, Serial Wantrepreneur, Devoted Daydreamer, Passionate Flavor Enthusiast, Amateur Family Historian, and Casual Photo & Film Hobbyist.
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