college beginning soon

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: January 11th, 2011 | 0 Comments

Next week i will be going back to college for my last ever semester. I think this is as far as i am going to go with my education, i have spent the last 17 years in an education environment and it is beginning to get to me. If i manage to pass all of my exams that i have already sat and the final ones i will be sitting later this semester then i will get myself my second degree. Having two degrees is enough for me. I am really looking forward to the end of this semester; i want to go away on a few trips which will most likely include some parts of Ireland and going back over to Edinburgh. The timetable for my last semester has just been put up lately and it is looking really good, however the college is known for changing the timetable about 50 times in a week! This semester has a lot less class hours at the moment, i expect this is due to the fact that we all have a dissertation to get done. I reckon that the free class slots will be filled with dissertation so we have scheduled time during the day to get some work done on them. So just 5 more days and then it is back to the excitement of assignment and tests :D

first day of fourth year

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: September 13th, 2010 | 0 Comments

So today I started back at college for my fourth and final year and as expected I did absolutely nothing all day. I arrived into college a little after half 8 thinking that I might have classes at 9, the reason I said might is because I had received an email from the college saying some classes may not be starting until 1 or 2pm! It turns out my course was one of those that wasn’t starting until 1pm. Fair enough I could have accepted that if I had something to occupy myself with. Usually I would pop out the laptop or use one of the computer lab's pc's to go on the internet but once I tried that there was no luck there. The entire college has no Wi-Fi because the IT department are upgrading the services, they say it should be working next week but I have my doubts. It is about time though that the Wi-Fi in the college got an upgrade, you could sit in some lecture or lab rooms and struggle to get any reception at all, the Wi-Fi service the college is installing is the same that the majority of the other college's in Ireland are using which is called eduroam. this Wi-Fi service should apparently give us 100% coverage in the new carrolls building which is the new computer department and then at least 80% coverage for the rest of the college :D. It seems a lot of work has yet to be done in the new IT department, but hopefully they will get it sorted sooner rather than later, I would assume all the IT technicians are working overtime to get the place fully up and running. Also I have yet to get my full timetable. The college have made a great new handy site that has our class timetables but it is not fully up to date yet, according to some of our lecturers we should have more classes than what is on our sheet so that should hopefully be changed over the next few days. The new timetable is no longer manually updated, if the head of the computing department makes a change to the timetables, the site get updated automatically. That may not sound like a big deal, but to be honest, for our college that’s huge! The new department is definitely a huge step up from the old one though; from what is complete it does seem excellent. The computers have 64 bit windows 7 operating systems with 8 GB of ram and huge hard disk space, also the projectors are brand new and there are speakers in the labs which will be useful for when we have to give presentations on our projects.

Registered for college

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: September 7th, 2010 | 0 Comments

Today I went up and registered for what will most likely be my last year in college! I can't believe I have already completed three years of college and have earned a degree! This next year at college is to make that degree even better and bring it up to an honours level degree. This next year is going to be different, it is a whole new building for the computing department so I already have no idea where anything is and at the moment I am not exactly sure what classes I will be studying this year. I had applied for iPhone Development but I recently found out that it is not going ahead! We were asked to fill out other modules that we would like to take if we were not accepted into our first choice, as iPhone Development is not going ahead that means my only other module I put down was Data Warehouse Design which I am not looking forward to, I think I will try and switch out of it! This is my last week off from my summer holidays now, my classes start on Monday September 13th at 9am! I am looking forward to going back, I want to get through this year so I can focus more on my future and getting my life career! It seems strange that there is only one year between now and when I potentially start my lifetime career!