Next semester I need to do my final project. It could either be an investigation on some topic related to CS that I pick or it can be some program that I develop. I need to decide this semester what it is exactly that I am going to do so that I can get a head start on it.

   I would love suggestions! This is what I have thought about so far or some people have suggested to me:

• Improve the ICS project I did last year
  Pros: It could end up being quite decent, more usable, and not so toy looking?
  Cons: I want to do something different.
   
• Make/improve a Drupal module
  Pros: It would be cool to give back to the community. :)
  Cons: That does WHAT? -__-
   
• Make a mobile app for Android
  Pros: It might give me bragging rights with my friends. haha
  Cons: That does WHAT??? -__-
   
• P2P search engine (it would use decentrilized hash tables)
  Pros: Very interesting idea. A friend of mine (he's actually a professor at another university) suggested this. He might be able to help/mentor me.
  Cons: TONS of research!
   
• Course management system (enrolling and that kind of stuff)
  Pros: Easy.
  Cons: Lame.
   
• GUI front-end to our already existing enrolling system (it sucks right now)
  Pros: Some people will love me.
  Cons: Not very impressive on a grad school appliccation

     Any other suggestions? Did you like any of these? Feedback is much appreciated.

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I just had to laugh when I read this:
"If you have a lot of COBOL, may want to build your next datacentre next to a retirement home," Colony quipped.

I guess California can go move.

If you have no idea of what I'm talking about, read these:

• California's Cobol conundrum
• COBOL thwarts California's Governor

Edsger Dijkstra famously described it is as a "disease" and noted: "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."