Yesterday, my dear mother accused me of paying more attention to the sentiments of my fraternity brothers than to her own requests. I won’t bother to comment on the validity of this statement, but I am here to say that, in one aspect, I’m going to try to listen to you: the budget.
I have never [...]
It’s almost summer! Today marks the last day of class, Monday the first day of finals.
I’m excited to see what’s ahead! I’ll be in Columbus, LaGrange, Atlanta, Macon, Hilton Head (South Carolina), Lafayette (Louisiana), and other random places this summer, so give me a ring on the cell or drop me a line (matthew at [...]
Categories: Journal
Last summer I did a little investigation as to how well my website ranked on Google for various search terms (a little one sided, but Google is the biggest search engine). When I first did the study, I looked at several terms.
Matthew Smith ranked somewhere on page 7 (so between position 61 and 70), Matthew [...]
Categories: General
This is a random and intriguing idea that I came up with the other day.
I want to create a private wiki (and by private, I mean really, really (really) private). This wiki would be accessible only by me, and would contain all those bits of random knowledge that so easily slips your mind after a [...]
Categories: Musings
Welcome to the keywords of life… apathy and procrastination.
Let me tell you, these two are killers. They kill fun, grades, fraternities, marriages, jobs… and the list goes on. Apathy sucks. Procrastination… well it sucks too.
I’ve been dealing with both of these issues over the past year, not only with my class work, but also [...]
Categories: Musings
My CDR (Critical Design Review) is due on Monday, so the weekend has been spent attempting to complete the remaining parts of the document. Last semester when my team and I wrote our PDR (Preliminary Design Review), we spent a hectic evening emailing word documents back and forth in an attempt to collaboratively produce a [...]
Categories: General