Parallel Processing

I must say that the one thing Cornell has endowed me with is the ability to multitask. The ability to handle several different tasks and responsibilities at any given time. I’ve mentioned this before but my schedule this semester is pretty light. The one class, Electronic Commerce, that I thought would be interesting and informational turned out pretty disappointing. It’s a 600-level graduate course in the Cornell business school too. I’m not learning anything I didn’t already know and the course leans more towards the technical side and I was expecting a strategy related course.

Besides school assignments, I have about 4 different web projects in the pipeline. Obviously first and foremost is my web design and development business. I’m a bit frustrated with that at the moment because I am waiting on merchant account approval, resulting in unexpected delays. Although the site is up, I hope to really “go live” in 2 weeks maximum. At the moment, I’m also developing a pretty targeted direct mail campaign.

I’m also redeveloping my Stuffbox website. It’s been sitting idly for about a year, although traffic has increased steadily. The current version in development is a vast improvement over the previous version and my goal is to generate ad revenue. The new site takes advantage of a lot of “Web 2.0″ features. The Stuffbox can attract a lot of eyeballs if done right and this means lucrative ad dollars especially since it has a fairly targeted visitor demographic.

Other than that, I have two more projects still in basic concept development/research stages. So when I’m not at class, doing assignments, or at the gym, I’m working on these projects. Of course I still make time for leisure and entertainment but much less so, now that I’m about to graduate. I mean, my goal is to be comfortably self employed, not unemployed after graduation.