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About seven years ago I bought a book on C++ and taught it to myself over the span of a month or two during the summer. That set the basis for my time preparing for my career (a whole lot more than high school classes did...) until I got to college. Throughout high school I bought numerous books and read tons of documentation and tutorials online in order to teach myself various things (e.g. computer graphics, game development, etc). Then something called College happened, and there went the massive amount of free time I had to allow for both work, play, and self-taught endeavors. Now this seems really random, I'm sure, but I'm now getting to the point...

In the last two days I taught myself network programming. I really wanted to take Computer Networks at Rose this past quarter, but couldn't fit it into my schedule, and it turns out it would've been useful. But there was nothing I could do about that, and it's too late anyway, so I borrowed some books on networking and poured over them. I looked through them, flipped back and forth, found more books, read documentation, and bam: two days later I consider myself fairly well-versed in networking. Of course, I'm exhausted and my head felt like it might explode at times, but I needed it so I can delve into more important things and have time for learning that. Not to mention how awesome it feels to have taught myself an entire subject in two days though.