I got an Honours Degree!

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: June 14th, 2011 | 0 Comments

Today my results came out for the exams i sat about a month ago. I am always nervous about getting results, even if i thought i done well, there is always some factor of nerves present! I was hoping that i would get at least the same results for this degree as i did last year in my other degree. In my last degree i got a 2.1 or a Merit 1 if you like, i was hoping that i would get that, but i ended up getting a 2.2 which is a Second Class Honours Degree Grade 2 (its the same as a 2.2 / merit 2 except its honour level). Even though i didn't get exactly what  i wanted, i cannot complain. I am delighted with how i have done,  once i got an honour in my degree i was happy! Here is a breakdown of my results for the entire year.

Usually the way the results work is that they are released around 5.00 pm and everyone gets an email to our student accounts telling us how to access them and what our login details are. This time for some reason the emails were sent a lot earlier, i got mine around 1.00 pm. As soon as i got my results i updated my C.V. , Up until recently i didnt have a current C.V. but since i was applying for some jobs i needed to make a new one. So from now on since i have the C.V. i am going to try and keep it updated, maybe once a month if i have anything new i need to add, i will edit it into it. Four long years and i have come out with great results in my opinion. I first got my 2.1 (Merit 1) degree this time last year and now i have gone on to complete this last degree achieving a Second Class honours, i am just delighted! I will be picking up my official degree parchment later this year. Now all i have to do is go and celebrate and think about my next step of my life!

finished college

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: May 22nd, 2011 | 0 Comments

This past Thursday I finished up with my last ever exam in DkIT. I had intended on discussing each exam as I went along here on my blog, but I found that the time would be better used for studying. In total I had 5 exams, 2 of which I didn't look forward to at all. They were the first and last exams. The last exam had me really frustrated and nervous about whether or not I would be able to actually pass the subject. I am not sure what I CA marks were before going into the exam, the CA made up 30% of the overall result, not a huge amount, but still enough to swing my result in the wrong direction. I was banking on certain questions to come up, the exam was in financial management, and I only looked at topics I liked and hoped they would come up. Luckily for me, exactly what I wanted to come up, did. But that’s not to say I did brilliant in the exam. I do feel though that I have done enough to pass everything, and I will know exactly how I have done, in June!     Now that college is over, I now have to begin to plan for my future. This is an area I am still unsure about. I do know that I want to work with web development, since this is what I am most passionate about. It is always good to like what you are working at; it simply makes the days go quicker, unlike having no interest in your job, like my current one! The decision I have to make at the moment is, do I go and look for a job, which will most likely be in another county, most likely Dublin. Dublin is not too far away but I would rather not have the commute, I could always move if need be. My next option is to see how I get on by myself, doing freelance work. In order for freelance to work a lot of effort will have to go in, it’s nothing that I am not willing to do. I am eager to work for myself. Over the course of this summer I will have to make huge decisions, possibly life changing for me. But it is an area that I am feeling excited about. As for being finished up with college, it still has not sunk in yet. I think that once September rolls round and I realise that I don’t have to go back to college, it will hit me. I have never been out of education; I have gone straight from primary school then into secondary school and then straight into college. This is why I think it will be September before I realise that college is no more.. But this summer will be a busy one, I have a fair bit of work lined up for myself, which is good because it will keep me busy and is in the area that I enjoy. I also have a project with my 'former' college mates (seems strange saying that now!), this project will begin this summer and I far as I am aware at the moment, should be launching this coming September.

Exams Begin, 1 of 5

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: May 9th, 2011 | 0 Comments

Today I began the first of my 5 final exams for college. As I thought, today’s exam (in Service Orientated Architecture) was very difficult. I was confident going in, I had covered everything that I needed to, but the thing that always gets me with exams is the way the questions are written. Questions are always written using words that I don’t always fully understand; I don’t know why lecturers insist with trying to confuse us! I know that on numerous occasions we have said to some of our lecturers that some of the language is a bit to hard to understand, and yet they still refuse to do anything about it, maybe they just do it to annoy us! I made a decent enough attempt at the exam anyway and I am confident that I have done enough to pass. Whether or not I get a high score is debatable, but for this module I would simply be happy to pass it. On the other-hand, I am happy to know that the hardest exam out of the 5 is out of the way! Tomorrow I have no exams so I will be putting together all my notes into one organised file for Wednesday exam, because my next exam is open book! It is strange to have an open book exam for a final exam; I never had one before, other than in class open book exams. The thing about open book exams is that more is expected from students, it is easy to think that there is no need to study for it, but I wouldn't be happy if I didn't at least take a look at the notes! So tomorrow I will be making sure I revise for that open book exam. People always say that since it is open book that it will be easier, I don’t agree at all with that, I think it might have easy questions, but for the answers a lot more is required so an extra difficulty level is added in!