the REAL journey begins

after much hand-holding and supervised guidance, i finally will begin my long-awaited mission of diving in head first into the deep end for the first time. i will learn more than i have so far, while at the same time, i will be fulfilling my own expectations of feeling a sense of accomplishment and skill sets learned on my own that i feel are more relevant in the long run. not to be forgotten, i am just getting to the part along this journey that i have been waiting for since i began my phd................really getting deep into operating systems and architectures.