EvanZ

Why not just hire based on merit, and let gender and race percentages fall where they may?

Thanks for the link!

Thanks for taking your time to right out such a helpful and thorough comment. As far as point one goes, I'm definitely doing a few of those things and plan on travelling a bit too.

Number two is helpful, as I hadn't really thought about building any compilers or interpreters. Could you PM me the blog post if possible? I'm not sure if HN has this capability. If not, then I'll have my email in my profile. Thanks a ton!

This was very helpful, thanks! There are not any research projects going on at my college that I know of, but there are one or two viable clubs at the CC and I'll take the initiative and look into joining them.

Thanks for the info, is there any particular tutorial/guide that you would recommend for me to really get a solid grip on Git and Version Control?

Thanks for the info! I have a few projects completed already (4 games in AS3 and Haxe and one site) and am looking at a few open source projects that interest me. If you don't mind, what are the best websites/methods for obtaining quality internships?