Apparently, I must start thinking about thesis IMMEDIATELY. This scares me for a couple of reasons. First, Im not ready for ITP to be over. No, Im not being a sentimental asshole, there are certain things about this place that I will NOT miss, but change is difficult (I felt similar when undergrad was over) you get used to something and before you know it its over. Second, I am in conflict over what my thesis should be. I have several ideas, two of which actually make sense and could possibly happen and I dont know what to do.

I have been given a great opportunity (which is unfortunately somewhat confidential...perhaps that means I should not be blogging about it) to have full access to a user group and free mobile phones to do user test using freeFormed as a platform and generally be part of a larger and very interesting project. It is an amazing offer (one that I would probably be stupid for passing up) but then there is this other thing (and according to Clay Shirky, when you say that you have just defined your thesis). The other thing is much less concrete but involves asterisks and a networked objects project. So what do I do? I am scared to death of physical computing, but I am also determined to take Networked Objects next semester regardless of whether I use it for thesis or not. Sometimes you have to take yourself completely out of your comfort zone in order for interesting things to happen otherwise you just keep doing the same thing over and over.

I guess I have a month or two to figure it out. F#%king thesis.