Congrats.
Hey there! Do you still have a MobileMe email address? You had your Apple account for ages, mate! .mac.com email addresses are for Apple IDs from over two decades ago.
I feel the same way. Plus, I really don't like to be touched in general, so certainly not willing to have someone dig into my skin for hours. I also do not like the idea of something permanent.
Congratulations!! Very happy for you! Hope it all goes well.
Congratulations.
Congratulations on the acceptance! I felt the same when I got accepted at the Graduate Institute of International Relations here in Geneva many years ago. 😀
Bro you got a masters degree 📜 already?! I am almost done with getting my associates in computer engineering + math and science.
Yep, you managed to keep your Apple Account for two decades, my friend! .mac addresses are the oldest of all Apple ID accounts. I’ve already noticed leaves regrowing on trees in my area, and even butterflies 🦋 flying around.
Love tattoos but not reviewing the design until the work is done seems like a recipe for a disaster.
Was it the original MacBook or MacBook Air? my Apple-loving friend, whom I’ve known since high school, had as his first Mac. It was one of those plastic MacBooks before he transitioned to iPad Pros.
Already? It's my second and I came here a long time ago - I am a lot older than you but thanks for the slight boost. Anyway, good luck with your studies sound fun!!
I can only imagine how excited you are about having gotten acceptance to your first-choice university. That doesn't always happen so you are very fortunate.
🤩 Thanks! You have dual master’s degrees, right? I befriended a new mentor who is an iOS developer and holds dual graduate degrees in data science and software engineering. He’s also a professor of computer science at my school and a huge Apple fan, owning an Apple Watch Ultra, MacBook Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max. He was also my supervisor during my business trip in my NASA internship. I rarely encounter individuals who possess multiple master’s or undergraduate degrees unless they’ve gone above and beyond or enrolled in courses that align with both degrees. However, at my college, it’s common for students to earn multiple associate degrees because many programs offer classes that can be applied to multiple degrees. For instance, STEM majors who complete their general education requirements and major preparation simultaneously can earn both their main degree and a math and science degree, which can be applied to various science or engineering-related fields.
Of course! I’m thrilled about it because I’m starting at my new school this fall. You mentioned you have the iMac G5, the first flat-panel, pre-unibody iMac, right? I recall reading a children’s book a while back that featured an iMac G4 on an alphabet book. I didn’t realize it until I became an Apple fan in elementary school and revisited my childhood memories. It was printed around 2003, so it featured an iMac G4, and they still even include the Apple logo. I knew you’ve been an Apple fan since the early 2000s! PowerBooks and iBooks were the predecessors of MacBooks, right? Once you got one, you stopped using Windows, right? I wasn’t wealthy enough for Macs back then, so I started being an Apple fan instead. My first Apple product was the original iPad mini. Thirty years of Mac history drew me deeper into Apple and the Macintosh’s past. I read the historical account on the Apple website on my iPad, and I’ve also read many user manuals from the late 90s Macintosh, iPods, iPhones, and iPads on the Apple support website to gain knowledge about how Apple products work. These were my initial days using Apple products. A year after getting my first iPhone, the iPhone 5s, it lasted me for about five great years until it was time to upgrade to the iPhone 7 when iOS 13 no longer supported it. I was mostly a laptop user like you, but I still have a ThinkPad from school. Once I stopped using my iPad due to incompatibility with iOS 10, I switched to Windows laptops and Chromebooks, which I own one Chromebook for personal use. Planning to get a MacBook Pro btw.I can only imagine how excited you are about having gotten acceptance to your first-choice university. That doesn't always happen so you are very fortunate.
I never had one of the plastic MacBooks. Actually, it was the iMac G5 Rev B (yes, prior to the Intel switch) which got me hooked into the whole Apple world.... I very quickly fell in love with Apple and Macs, and so a short time later it was a no-brainer to purchase an Apple Powerbook as well, since I was about to go on a long-distance trip out of town. I figured that, hey, if I already had discarded Windows for use at home, why the heck would I want to take a Windows laptop machine with me on a trip?
Bottom line: neither of my old Windows machines were useful to me any more once I had discovered the world of Apple. That 15" PowerBook was the answer and happily traveled with me to California and, yes, my destination was the 2006 Macworld......
A few months passed. I kept my beloved PPC-based iMac but unable to resist temptation to check out the whole new Intel-based platform on a Mac, I jumped into that new world, selling my very gently-used PowerBook to a colleague at work and buying myself my first 15" MacBook Pro.....
A while later, my next new Mac was the wonderful, amazing 12" MacBook, a delightfully small, thin and lightweight machine to which I immediately was drawn, and yes, purchased about a month after it was released in 2008. I loved that machine and later on as time went on I purchased the two updated models which followed. Sadly, these are now no longer available, but happily, my last one is still thriving here in this household. She's doing fine. I'll never let her leave! I really wish that Apple would give us a new 12" MacBook.....
Of course in the meantime and through the years the MacBook (Air) line did go on, in a slightly larger form (13") and is very popular today. For me, though, overall the MacBook Pro series offers more of what I want and need in general day-to-day life on a computer. Along the way, I've also picked up and enjoyed a few iPad Pros, too, but spend most of my time on an actual computer. At this point in time, I'm using an M1 MBP for my adventures online and especially for working with photographic images.
We're the ones who eagerly and happily bought the first of many exciting new Apple products as they initially arrived on the scene and we're the ones who also experienced either online or in person the incredible and fascinating charisma of Steve Jobs. Those years were really exciting in a way which, alas, is now for many reasons just not the same.
Glad you visited the San Fran Bay Area back then. Things are so different now.Some of us -- many of us? -- on MR have been Apple fans since before you and other members of this forum were even born!
Steve Jobs' keynote presentations were something else, weren't they? I'm glad we have so many of them available for still viewing and appreciating today. I am so, so happy that I made the decision to register for and attend MacWorld in January of 2006, as that was certainly a memorable event for many reasons. It was the one and only time I saw Steve Jobs in person -- at a distance, of course, from my seat way back in the auditorium.
I haven't been to the (in my mind still new) Apple Park campus and the store there, and much as I'd love to get back out there to CA to see it, that probably won't happen. From all the photos and comments I've read about the place, it's wonderful for Apple fans to experience!
Another special time I remember from my trip in 2006 when I was in CA for MacWorld, is that I did spend a day doing an excursion from San Francisco (where MacWorld was held) out to Cupertino and One Infinite Loop to visit the original campus, "the Mothership," so to speak (even have a t-shirt with just that name on the front!), and had a delightful time in what was then called "the Company Store." I am still using some of the goodies which I brought home from there.
Also, while I was out there, a friend took me to spend some time at the fascinating Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA -- a really neat place! Both of us geeked out on all the neat stuff we saw and learned about.
Wow, that was a long time ago now.....
I lived in San Diego for a year in 1980. We loved it but I recognized congestion as compared to South Texas yet it was manageable.Some of us -- many of us? -- on MR have been Apple fans since before you and other members of this forum were even born!
Steve Jobs' keynote presentations were something else, weren't they? I'm glad we have so many of them available for still viewing and appreciating today. I am so, so happy that I made the decision to register for and attend MacWorld in January of 2006, as that was certainly a memorable event for many reasons. It was the one and only time I saw Steve Jobs in person -- at a distance, of course, from my seat way back in the auditorium.
I haven't been to the (in my mind still new) Apple Park campus and the store there, and much as I'd love to get back out there to CA to see it, that probably won't happen. From all the photos and comments I've read about the place, it's wonderful for Apple fans to experience!
Another special time I remember from my trip in 2006 when I was in CA for MacWorld, is that I did spend a day doing an excursion from San Francisco (where MacWorld was held) out to Cupertino and One Infinite Loop to visit the original campus, "the Mothership," so to speak (even have a t-shirt with just that name on the front!), and had a delightful time in what was then called "the Company Store." I am still using some of the goodies which I brought home from there.
Also, while I was out there, a friend took me to spend some time at the fascinating Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA -- a really neat place! Both of us geeked out on all the neat stuff we saw and learned about.
Wow, that was a long time ago now.....
Then about 7 years later we went back to visit and it was even more developed near the neighborhood we lived in, Rancho Penasquitas, close to Rancho Bernardo. I've always said, California must of been a wonder place to live in the 1950s... 🤔 
It something with trust in the person.
