One more chapter

Oh yeah!!! I have graduated. This is the moment I have been waiting for since May. Preparing of my graduating work was very difficult for me and now I feel like there is no more a rock on my shoulders :)
But gladness is not the only I feel now. I can say that the major my feeling now is sadness. Yes, sadness. One more chapter of my life has finished, five long years of being a student. Moreover I have to separate from people I was studying with. It is very difficult to understand that now our ways begin to go in different directions. I used to see them almost everyday and now we lose each other. Of course, we will meet again but we are not able to return our happy 5 years of being together.

The next part of my life is post-graduate education. I don't know what is waiting for me... And nobody knows. But I hope that it will be interesting and very useful for me.
And now it's time to have some fun and relaxation. It begins tomorrow when I leave to our university's camp to have a rest.

The motto

Some days ago I thoight that one of my life mottos is "The first and the best". In any area I always try to become the best. In past when I were going in for basketball I used to compete and try to grab every rebound, to make every shot and to win every game. Now I use it in my life.

And today I decided to make a logo image associated with the motto. You can see it in the post. I am not a designer at all but I think that this picture is simple and informative.

My first post

So, I have successfully created my blog.

Some words about myself. My name is Ilya Shishkov. I am from Russia and live in Orel. I am 22. About my interests.

I have two passions - basketball and programming. I have been going in for basketball for 12 years since I was 7. That was wonderful time. I have found many friends on a basketball court. Now I just sometimes play basketball. But I keep an eye on NBA Championship and try to learn as much information about it as I can.

The other thing I do love is programming. I have taken part in ACM ICPC World Finals for 2 times in 2007 and 2008. The best achivement of our team was the 13th place on the Finals in 2008. I participated in TopCoder Algorithm competitions.

The main thing I want to tell about is why I've created the blog. My goal is to practice in English. I can say that I understand many different English texts. But I have problems with understanding of a speech and creating sentences. So I want to make posts and want people to read them and correct my mistakes. Of course I will be glad to discuss the stuff I post.

So there is the first my post. And now I'm waiting for comments :)