i heart html

I never thought I would say this, but I love html. I mean, I only know the very basics (like making things bold or adding a footnote here or there), but I find it so rewarding. I'm not sure if it's the logic that I like or the there's-only-one-correct-answer sense of accomplishment. One of my tasks as the online education intern is to update the database that controls all the images, text, and links on the learning@whitney website. As such, I have learned some code and will hopefully learn more.

In graduate school, you spend so much time questioning your reading, professors, peers, and yourself. There are no 100% "correct" answers and there's always a counter-argument. You're on the offensive or defensive and, to make it all worse, the referees are all biased either for or against you. In the world of html, you enter text and something happens. Something definite, something repeatable, something understandable. In grad school, you write something and there's no end to the possible permutations. And there is no code.