The very first post

Well. This is new.

Anyway, I've recently decided to switch to Blogger from Livejournal. I've had my LJ account for nearly four years now, so the changeover is a bit daunting. Jim says writing a parser to deal with my old XML entries won't be hard. I, of course, have no idea how to begin doing this, but okay. He's the CS person.

I'm currently an undergraduate preparing to graduate with a BS in engineering. Next year, I will be headed to medical school, at an insitution to be determined after the financial aid packages are distributed.

Going to medical school represents a fairly significant change in my life, and is part of the motivation behind creating a new journal. The other part is the "ooh, shiny" factor, because, well, blogger is a pretty neat interface compared to LJ. But, the med school thing is a big factor too. I feel like my life will be divided into the "before medical school" and "professional career" bits pretty soon, so I'm dividing my journaling up too. And, hey! tradition. I created my LJ in the last few months before I started my undergraduate education, so now I'm creating a blog in the last few months before my graduate education.

And now, I need to stop procrastinating and get some studying done.