Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital, predicted many of the economic problems we have faced since this recession began. Every other financial “expert” was laughing at him and calling him crazy for his predictions. While watching this video I had to ask myself, is Peter Schiff brilliant or just lucky?

I have applied to the Georgia Tech M.S. in Computer Science program. Since I’m an undergraduate at Tech I have the option to apply for the FastTrack program. Basically, if you’re a current GT student and have a GPA higher than 3.4 along with one letter of recommendation from a College of Computing faculty member then you don’t have to take the GRE and you have priority for admission. So, hopefully that means I’m pretty much in because I declined five job offers.

Along with the nice streamlined admissions process, I will also be a Graduate Research Assistant at GTRI. GRAs get their tuition paid for while acquiring a graduate degree. So, it was a great opportunity that was hard to pass up and I decided to take advantage of it. There’s a possibility I could finish my masters in one year which would be nice considering my late start to college.

One of my friends tells me the other day that I’m trying to be the most successful “goaly” in history. Basically, when I was in high school I was a slacker. I wanted to drop out and just get my GED. Therefore I was admitted into the GOALS program which is for kids with high CTBS scores but aren’t applying themselves in high school, more or less a drop out prevention program for lazy kids. Well, I graduated high school and then did the band thing for 5 years and now here I am getting my masters degree at Georgia Tech. It feels good to have come so far and I’m glad I’ve been given all of these “second-chance” opportunities.

I’ll update as soon as I hear word about grad school. Wish me luck, I hope I get admitted!