Wow thinker. That sounds awesome! I think it's great that you've traveled and lived all over the globe and that you're in school pursuing something you're really into. It sounds like a great adventure. I want to do that too.

I've had 8 jobs in the last 8 years. So as you can see, I bounce around quite a lot too.
BTW, my undergrad degree is in anthropology. I wanted to be an archaeologist.
But I took a few comp sci courses along the way, and by the time I graduated, I decided to shift gears completely. It was very difficult to break into this field without a related degree, but I pounded away until I got in...starting from the absolute bottom, but I finally got some experience in the field. And once you get your foot in the door, you're set from there. I've always been a geek, it just took me a little while to admit it. I was a long-haired dope smoking F all jocks and nerds metal-head in high school. I'm still a metal-head, but I'm also a nerd. And I get along with jocks too.

I hope you get to do what you love doing. To me that stuff is really interesting. I could never do that type of art, because I'm simply horrible at it. If I tried to make a sculpture of a round ball it would end up looking like a pile of elephant dung.
I can't even wrap a birthday present. I guess that part of my brain doesn't really work. I think it's great that yours does. BP's are a creative lot. The only art-related thing I can do is music...but my creative ability has gone down quite a lot since being on meds. I used to be able to write and record a demo of an album's worth of material in a few days. Now I just listen to lots of music...stuff that blows my mind.

BP's can do great things. Sometimes we are GODS.

I heard of this book about how some of the great accomplishments in America stem from hypomania. Sounds a little hokey but I dunno...might be an interesting read.
It's called The Hypomanic Edge.

Crap, gotta run (not to crap)