The plan for Friday was to complete The Wall so I can dedicate this weekend to catching up on optional PHP assignments and possibly get a head start on the Object Oriented Programming (OOP) lessons we'll have on Monday. I made great strides on The Wall by the time lunch came around. For lunch a bunch of my classmates and I decided to go out and eat together. We settled for chicken wings and found a place a couple of miles from the Dojo. There were eight of us so we decided not to order individual meals but one huge order of chicken wings, in particular 60 wings with celery and carrots. I don't think I've ever seen an order of wings that big.
This year I wanted to experiment with the pescetarian diet. Ideally I eat fish and avoid other meats. However in circumstances like this I have little meal alternatives, so I ate the wings and enjoyed them. I'll probably abandon the pescetarian diet later this year. Everyone had fun and we decided to go out like this once a week. I haven't had fun with a group meal like this since I spent spring break in West Virginia last year with some college classmates. Also, since it was Friday we decided to head out in the evening for drinks in downtown. We couldn't do that in West Virginia
When we got back we had a lecture about cyber security and the importance of having a program that scrambles your password before inserting it into the database. After that I lost myself on The Wall. It was so much easier than I thought it be.
Evening came and the group started packing up and getting ready for downtown. I didn't have much time for a post so I told myself that I'll come back early and make a post before leaving for home. That didn't quite work out.
We got to downtown and after a couple of drinks everyone started talking more. Without going into detail certain group members became the stars of the evening. We really learned a lot about each other that night. A bunch of us decided to watch Straight Outta Compton the following day. The classmate in the hybrid route also showed up to meet the rest of the classmates and I ran into some friends from high school. I introduced them to my coding group and it was fun to see them interact. After a while things got a little blurry but fortunately my high school friends took charge of me and they managed to get me back to the Dojo by 1AM. I was in no shape to drive so I slept on the couch. There was only one other person sleeping at the Dojo.
I woke up to the sound of coders coming in for the day. I took off immediately for home, slept some more, showered, and returned to code a little more and to watch the movie. On the way to the theater we took a detour to check out the Google campus since VT wanted to see it. I haven't had much professional experience as a developer (for now) and so it is hard to imagine just how much their world really is or that places like the Google campus actually exist. After the movie I decided to call it quits to go home and sleep some more. Unfortunately I didn't get much sleep since my mind was still obsessed over The Wall. I worked on it some more and have a bunch of questions I need to ask my classmates tomorrow. I'm going to sleep early to show up early.
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