Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Omar Metwally Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Where are they now? Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 01:33:41 -0500 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-73-204-210.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: i'm a second-year university student at the university of michigan in ann arbor, michigan, USA. my major is cellular and molecular biology, but i'm also doing the pre-medical curriculum, so i'll be sending out my applications to medical school sometime in 2006. unfortunately, I haven't done anything with my yaroze in the last 4 years...i got the yaroze for my 13th birthday, and i'll be turning 20 in september of '05, so it's really devastating that i had to abandon it after basically growing up with it. i'm sure if my father wasn't a doctor so eager to raise his son in his footsteps, i would be happily coding away and studying computer science in the engineering school... plus, i use a mac powerpook g4 in my apartment, so that's one major reason that i can't really code for yaroze right now. the second is that i've forgotten the vast majority of my self-taught C programming skills, which have been replaced in my brain with textbooks filled with organic chemistry, physics, biology, and other terrible and scary science classes. but the tragedy of it all is that my yaroze is within an arm's reach as i type this. i'll be in egypt visiting family for most of the summer, but i might stop by london for a few weeks on the way back to the states to visit my aunt...it would be great to actually meet some of my fellow yarozers in person after all these years of online collaboration. ->omar metwally OMetwally7@aol.com ometwally.tripod.com Nick Ferguson wrote: > I thought it would be interesting to find out what Yarozers are doing these > days? Did DEnnis ever break into the biz? Is Rob Swan still cranking out > code somewhere? Did Scott Campbell escape from Data Design Interactive and > make his fortune on the stock market? etc > > These days I'm an Associate Producer at EA working on externally-developed > handheld (NDS, PSP, GBA) titles. > > How about you? > >