Yet another ADHD paper that I wrote for an English class. There seems to be no end to them. Not everything that appears here is necessarily confirmed scientific fact, as a large amount of it was drawn from my own real life experiences.

Over the last several years, advances in the medical field have allowed students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to go on to pursue higher levels of education. A few years earlier, however, the situation was very different. Students that exhibited symptoms that today would be diagnosed as ADD or ADHD were considered stupid or lazy. However, advances in the medical field have now allowed these students to not only succeed at school, but go on to pursue higher education. ADHD is a difficult condition to understand for someone that hasn’t lived with it. While reading this paper, you may notice things such as a lapse in the flow of the paper, or seemingly random jumps in thought. These aren’t unexpected when someone with as severe a case of ADHD as mine attempts to write such a paper. Unlike other papers, this one wasn’t written start to finish. In fact, this sentence was written after about ninety percent of the paper was already complete. Instead, I have a habit of jumping around, working on one part of the paper, then mid sentence jumping to a completely different section and writing something there.
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In the software world, there are two dramatically different viewpoints when it comes to software development. One is the proprietary model used by corporations such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple, among others. The second is the increasing popular open source model. The open source model, also known as the Free Software movement, is a modern day example of dissent in the computer world. The idea of free software started when computer users began to look for alternatives to the current software offerings.
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It is now the dawn of the twenty-first century. Computers are now more technologically advanced than ever, and with a drop in prices providing more powerful machines at the consumer level, what you can accomplish with your computer is now limited only by your imagination, right?
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My first computer, which I have named Quixote, was purchased when I was in the seventh grade, approximately six years ago. While it physically sits underneath a desk at my home in Lexington, I can use it from virtually anywhere in the world, given that I have an Internet connection. That is because Quixote is now, and has been for a few years, my dedicated web server. When I graduated from middle school in 2001, my parents bought me an Internet domain name as a graduation gift. Sure, it wasn’t a car, but I was a thirteen year old geek, and to me, this was much cooler. At the age of thirteen, I was the proud owner of zachtib.com, which I still own today.
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The following is another paper that I wrote for my English class. The paper is largely satirical, and completely unedited. Read on at your own risk, and take nothing I say at face value
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Living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder can be challenging. From the time I started that sentence to the time I finished it, I picked up and shuffled a deck of cards, started some music playing, and checked my auctions on eBay. By the time I finish this paper, I will have gone off track dozens more times, but that’s to be expected with ADHD. Instead of doing one thing at a time, your brain wants to do ten. Focusing on one thing for more than a few minutes becomes tedious, and hour-long lectures can be torturous. I have coped with this condition my entire life, and likely will continue to do so for a long time. While medications exist that can help attention deficit students focus, they don’t completely erase the want to get up and do something else.
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