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cheerfulWell, that’s stopping now. I've decided for a change. I want to make this blog worth reading, enjoyable to read in fact, with my actually thoughts and opinions on life experiences. Yeah, you guessed it. I'm going to use it as an actual BLOG. Wow... crazy concept huh? Minus podcast links (which will include opinions on the shows instead of straight copy/paste), I probably wont mention much in relation to actual FW content at all. You should go there for that funnily enough.
To start this blog revitalisation, I've changed the pages theme somewhat, going for a more emo-esc black/red ensemble as apposed to the previous white/blue dress. Why not leave your friends page and check it out?
So what have I been up to then? Well, to be honest, a hell of a lot. University has drained away a great proportion of my time, where I've been busy studying and working hard. One of the things that really struck me about the shift to university was the sudden desire around me for people to learn. Even back when I was at college everyone in my class was very geared into the nature off as soon as lesson ends, we're out of there and we're not looking back. At uni? People WANT to work in their free time, discuss lesson topic, etc, etc. It's amazing how paying for a course makes people change their mindset.
Of course that doesn’t mean we haven't been having a tone of fun in the progress as well. One of the great things about being at a campus detached from the central Brighton sites is we're a very small group of people. Most of my lectures have fewer than twenty people in them, and on a Friday there's only five of us. This makes it incredibly easy to speak to and get to know a lecturer in a way simply not possible at the main site where you might have one guy teaching three hundred people. Sure, I have no dout this place must be a money sucking PIT OF DOOM, but I'm not going to complain.
The building interior is all new, its clean, the computers were replaced with newer modules over last summer and there’s a friendly atmosphere. I get along with all the people in my lectures around my age great. The problem comes where we have a number of adults a lot older than us. Quite how some of these people got onto a degree level course I have no idea, although I quote from one of them "must not copy anyone’s assignments this year. This is university, not college."
And it's not so much the fact that a couple of them are mental retards that would be far more efficient working on a deranged donkey farm either. It's the fact that when I attempt to help them with stuff, they blindly question and argue back at me with things I can't help with. For example, I was trying to help one of them with their Java programming the other week. Instead of a quick ten-minute point him in the right direction, it turned in to a half hour discussion on why the syntax is the way it is.
"Why do you have to capitalise a class name? Why does a constructor have a capital letter but a mutator method does not? What’s INT mean again? Is that text meant to turn red?"
For Christ sake, I could have hit him right then and there. It doesn’t help that his mind is a proverbial sieve that just looses out random information at will.
Besides them though, the course is going incredibly well. I currently have seven assignments out, three due in next week and four more after Christmas. I also have at least one exam in January, which is going to be fun. The only major downside I can pick up is the incredible lack of a Student Union bar in this place.
We need more alcohol at discounted prices...
