My buddy Aaron from work is selling my old Olympus SLR camera bodies on E-Bay for me. As he sent me the sales descriptions I started to reminisce my old photography days and started looking through some photos I had taken with those two cameras.

I used to be pretty big into photography. I was the head photographer for our high-school yearbook and actually debated whether to go in to photography or computer science when I started college.
The university has students fill out a questionnaire about your likes and dislikes to match incoming freshmen with a person who has similar interests. My acknowledgment of photography resulted in my first roommate being a photography major. He actually turned out to be a pretty weird guy, but I enjoyed ‘talking shop’ with him and actually did some experimental photo work my freshman year. Hence the long exposure photo with multiple flashes.

It may have been my roommate who soured me on photography, or maybe my computer interests really took off… but I ended up going into computer science.

As such, around 2001 I packed away my SLR bodies and haven’t really touched them since. Some photos I really enjoy I recently uploaded to Flickr to get them back into some place where they can be preserved…

… at any rate. Here’s some of my favorite photos from my old photography days.

A recent email circulating around the University from our dean of admissions and chancellor:

Our Admissions Website received an “A”
The National Research Center for College & University Admissions reviewed and evaluated every college website in the United States (over 3,000). As part of the study, high school students were asked to score college websites across the country. The survey examined many website web features such as the ability for students to apply online, find tuition or financial aid information, and the ability to set-up a campus visit. They also graded the college on the website’s design and the ease of navigation. The students gave each college a “Grade” that ranged from A to F.
The research center informed me this week that the UNL admissions website received an A grade, one of only 157 schools nationwide receiving the top rating. This puts UNL in the top 5% of all college admission websites. Congratulations to everyone who has contributed to our website’s development. Clearly, your work is having an impact and making a difference!

The admissions website is put together by Seth Meranda, who has done a fantastic job on the Admissions website within the UNL templates.

Awesome. Cheers all.

Katie and I closed on our new house last week. I’ll put up some more photos soon.