“Three more weeks, and I can’t wait…”
No matter what anyone else tells you, summer vacation seems to just drag on when you’re in college. Everyone’s gone home for the summer, and so JMU’s practically a ghost town, and all you have is AIM to keep in touch. I also lose my high-speed Internet connection, as Stuarts Draft doesn’t have full cable Internet, nor is DSL offered, and so it’s back to the dial-up connection, which really isn’t much. And on top of that, home just isn’t as much fun as college. No trips to the Artful Dodger for coffee and almost beating Cuba at chess, and I don’t get to put on programs nor attend programs during the summer. Which means none of what we see at left – pie throwing. Freshman and sophomore years, we had pie-throwing contests as fundraisers. Get your RAs and your Hall Council messy with whipped cream pies, and support a good cause. Those were fun, as you would expect, and as our good friend at left could attest to. Now the summer is the best time to do substantial Web site work, mind you. During the year, it’s too busy to be able to sit down and launch a second brand like I did with StratoSearch, and also too busy to redesign The Schumin Web, which at the time of this writing, is currently in progress. Let’s admit it – my sites generally leave one academic year looking like one thing, and often times enter the next year sporting a new face. One thing I always enjoy is seeing the reactions of sophomores at the beginning of the year, who had previously only known my Web site by how it looked when they were freshmen. To them, the old design was an integral part of the site. Now some newfangled site is in place, replacing the design they had come to love. Now for me, it’s just another “season” on the Web site. By my best estimate, The Schumin Web has been redesigned about sixteen times, with the high number stemming from multiple redesigns during my sophomore and senior years of high school. So to me, it truly is just the next design. Still, I love seeing other people’s reactions to things I’ve changed that I consider small changes that they considered big. Fun…
Date posted: July 22, 2002