Journey to the North Side

I’m sitting here at the Ravenswood Metra platform in Chicago’s north side waiting for my train back home. I spent a few hours today working with a company that designed the website of my summer internship company. Part of my project there was to design a web application, and today we spent some time integrating it with the existing CMS. It strikes me as very interesting to walk these streets and see all the different little companies that have headquartered here. It makes me wonder what things will be like when someday I start my own venture.

Now, I’ve got nothing against Chicago, but I’m hoping that when I start up my own business (doing whatever it is I decide I want to do…don’t you love the uncertainty of the future?), I’m probably not going to be in Chicago. I really want to explore the west coast, to at least check it out. I guess if I decide its not for me, I can always come back here.

But I digress…what I originally intended to ponder about was startup companies. One of the benefits of being in the curriculum I’m in is that I get to explore entrepreneurship. This semester, in fact, I’m taking a seminar on technology entrepreneurship and I’m totally looking forward to it. There’s just something about being able to make my own rules that I like…not that I have a problem abiding by anyone else’s rules…usually

There’s a group of people here who I thought were strangers that are communicating with each other using sign language. How crazy would it be if they really were strangers who all just happen to know sign language?