Issues With the World

Oh Gosh. I'm not sure where to start with this. I suppose I'll start with the biggest impact the internet has made on me. It gave me what I want to do when I grow up. Or at least what my career choice is to be since technically I'm about three quarters of the way to being grownup.


First and foremost I want to be a programmer. That's what I've wanted more than anything ever since a couple of years ago. You see I found I had a passion for coding during the first year when I joined NEOPETS. Yes you heard me right, NEOPETS. Of all things to credit with where I am now. Anyway on the Neopets site you have areas that you can customize for yourself, but thing is, you have to understand the html language. So I dove headfirst into learning that language. And boy how much I loved coding with it. I developed like three different websites from scratch and then quite a few more once I got Dreamweaver. But back to neopets.


From there I found my next big push into coding when, through an 'advanced' program at my home school system I was allowed to join a small 'trial' club where we worked on game coding. I was head of that club, let me tell you! When people had problems with their code not working the way they wanted, the came to me! Certainly I couldn't code any of the games from scratch. No at that age the code was a little too complicated for me to understand it to that degree. But I certainly would take the sample games and change them in all kinds of ways. Let's just say my Teachers ended up getting shot at with pencils instead of Aliens getting shot at with white beams from a space ship. But of course that has nothing to do with the internet. Needless to say I am still following the idea of being a programmer and planning to go to college for it.


The internet also keeps me in contact with my friends. I'd never survive summers without it. It's helped my artwork and my writing improve, critiques being everywhere on the Internet. Or at least everywhere I go. The Internet has been good to me. But it hasn't been it's best. I certainly could do with a bit more 'popularity' from it.