This is my story, how Perl and the monastery has changed my life, and how it affected my thinking...

Let's roll back a bit to check out who I am. My name is Chady Kassouf and I am now 3rd year studying architecture at the Lebanese University.. it needs a low tuition so that was what I could afford by the time I joined.. but my real aim was for Computer Science, and I couldn't afford bigger universities because of the high cost, and this major does not exist in the LU. So I went on with architecture... until recently, I discovered - in fact I admitted - that I hated it.

What made me think that way after all this time, you might wonder...so here's the story

I first 'investigated' about perl when the company I work at as a part time job wanted a script to send e-mails from the server.. so I searched within the most common searches, and after looking at some code, I liked the way it looked, then I saw this book on the selves at work called "Programming with Perl" so I started reading... then I joined the monastery at the end of summer.. and as I ranked up in levels, and as I knew more about Perl and programming styles and the art of programming.. I found myself coming back again and again to the monastery, whenever I have a small free time, I found myself reading from the book, trying some code, or roaming the monastery...

Until I finally admitted it... I'm leaving architecture... no more of that.. that's not for me.. I'm here to program.. so here was my decision :

I will leave architecture, although I'm third year, and I will continue my curren job (Web/Graphic Designer) BUT I will go for computer science...
when I told my teacher my intentions, he encouraged me, and said that he will see about getting me financial aids at a good university around...

If I never joined the monastery and filled my head with programming ideas and all the talk about coding.. I might have never left architecture, and I might have had a miserable time in the futur working...

So once again, Perl and the Monastery played their magic in helping people.. Thanx a lot guys.. I will now rest happy...

He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

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