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There were so many directions I wanted to go in a couple of years ago. Ever since I stumbled upon the blog HackADay.com, all the 'hacks' just sucked me in. The word 'hack' has a very ambiguous meaning. Anything can be a hack, and hence recreating and following up on a decent number of them is far too unimaginable to me. If I took all the classes at FAU to get me up to speed on everything, I would just never leave college. I'd love to be as diverse as that, but now I'm narrowing down into a small niche. My major will put me into 'cyber security'. I think that means I'll know all about software-level hacks and vulnerabilities. It's a fast-paced world, and the skills you get can go obsolete in a year or so. That puts me out of hardware-level hacks, which is an entirely different ( and intriguing ) world, one that encompasses real hands on work. The other world is more closely related to science, and the skills involved in that are much more timeless. I'm missing out on that. Knowing that I'll never do those crazy insane electronic hacks for a living is somewhat depressing. To me, they are even more impressive. What software hack could someone pull that would really turn heads? Well, it would have to be a hardware hack deep down inside.