Thank you for your response! I've read through this a couple of times trying to digest everything you've said. I'm always willing to listen to advice, process and evaluate it. And I think what you've given me is good advice, too.

Just a few notes for clarification really. The first is that, even though I am "becoming [my] own company," I'm not really intent on doing this often anytime soon (especially since I have two years of college left), and I don't think it would be fiscally sound to hire a lawyer for such a small, possibly isolated project. Oh, and I don't plan on being like your brother-in-law. I don't have enough guts to think I'm good enough to pull down enough money with my meager skills to survive, much less have the business skills to make it possible. Nope, I actually have a good job this summer (by good I mean I should gain a lot of experience), and plan on "being a drone" when I get out of college, too.

The second is that I don't consider myself an expert on project management, but I have taken a course in my college (called "System Analysis and Design") that was offered by a professor who I respect immensely, and who has had very recent experience in the profession (by that I mean, she isn't just a professor who has been out of practice for the last 20 years, instead she has been doing it for a while, and just this year took a job to teach). Obviously there is ALWAYS room for improvement (in everything anybody does), but at least I'm not walking into the project thinking I'm gonna sit down, start coding, and get it done right.

Once again, I do appreciate your response, it has been helpful, I hope I don't sound as if it isn't helpful. I just thought I'd let you know where I'm actually coming from here, so you don't think I'm some fresh-out-of-college greenhorn striking out on my own into uncharted waters, just waiting to be beat down with experience! :D Thanks again!

    -Bryan