If your willpower is there, you'll get there eventually. I think Danny is a good example of this, but I myself have also worked up from a student to the owner of a well-running design company. Just pull through :)
Rather belated, but still, I want to congratulate you on this ad, Danny. It's a great oppurtunity to bring your adventures and hardship into the spotlight for another audience (probably - unless the ad is only shown on otaku websites ;)).
Happens all the time, unfortunately. You'd think they would be routined enough to do it properly, but 'deeper' vein are apparently quite hard to hit. Gives you a sore arm for days :/
the Dell looks like it really is the perfect OS X netbook. I mean, you have had experience with the Air, so you can probably tell. What do you think, Dan?
Hmm, Barium. I don't think that's used in the EU anymore for these kind of diagnostics, rather, an Iodine solution. Must be scary to rinse it out like that.
That's totally amazing. Not sure about it not having wheels, though. It looks like it has them, but then in the 'demo' it appears to be walking genuinely.
I always thought graduation robes were pretty wacky. Here in the Netherlands there's no such thing. I do have a blog, too, and I think you should ask your readers about theirs. Mine's <a href="http://blog.cocoia.com">here</a>.