Reflection on Semester and Year

I'm almost done with my first year.   WOW!  It's been a wonderful year.  Yes, it has had its ups and downs, but in general I experience more positive things than negative things this year.

The semester is also drawing to an end (duh!).  New modules lay ahead, old modules fall away and schedules will change.  It's been a good semester.  My marks are good, I'm not as bone-tired as I usually am this time of year and I got some extra time to study for the exams.

:D

Long day

I am not one to complain.  Sure I go on about little things but that is purely for others' amusement.  

I am going to complain now though.  These past 2 weeks were LONG!  Ridiculously so.  And I still have 3 days and (strangely enough) 4 tests to go.  To steer conversation back to C# though, I am quite nervous about the test.  There won't be any practical (which I excel at if I dare say so myself), so I'm going to have to put in the time... Time which I just don't have.  I wish I did have the time to slowly read through the work, reflect on it, quiz myself on it, etc etc etc.  But I don't.

So yeah, that's it.  No witty remark in my sleep-derived brain I'm afraid.

Bye.

Reflection

It's been a while since I've written here on this blog.  Life... Well, time flows fast when having fun ;)

So, as the title says, I'm writing this blog to reflect of what happened the past 2 months.  We had a very nice exam week (woo!) and I passed all my tests with flying colors.  I also wrote a class test or 2 during this "off" period where I didn't blog.

Since this is an ITRW 123 blog, let's talk about what happened in ITRW 123.  For one thing, I got excellent marks in this test (better than all my other subjects).  I think this is due to a combination of hard work (wink wink), hours upon hours of studying (giggles), and of course the excellent, magnificent, extraordinarily brilliant, talented and insightful, inhumanly wise and unbelievably beautiful C# lecturer (Mr. Kgoete, that part was for you :D ).  In all seriousness, our lecturer is very, very good at his job.  He doesn't just encourage learning the material, he actually advocated us exploring it and making it our own.  This means that the classes might be slightly harder than they otherwise would be, but it also means that when we go home we do have a greater understanding of the work than we otherwise would have had.

Phew... I wrote that all in one breath :P

Now I can focus on what lies ahead:  **THE EXAMS**.  I'm not looking forward to this.  As usual it is in November, the month of wonders and mystery, the month in which yours truly was born.  Yes, I always write exam on my birthday.  Hopefully it will be an easy test on that day.

I am done!  Now, on to...

Reflection on Theory Test and Assignment (2)

Theory Test == Easy
Assignment != Easy

Couldn't have said it better with paragraphs and pictures.

Preparation for Theory Test

So, our first theory test is coming up.  I am rather curious to see how the questions will be asked.  The first question paper in any subject is usually the most difficult, since you never know what to expect. I'll probably have to start studying :D

Goodbye,
for now...

2 Study Units, 1 Post

Hello people of EARTH (and Mars, though I am not fond of those green-skinned freaks!).  Just We are done with the second and third Study Unit of the C# course.  I combined the two posts because I felt that SU2 didn't really have enough new content for me to write about.

So earlier today we discussed Vars and types and descriptor and and and and...  very interesting lesson, though I have done this work before in high school.  What I enjoy the most though is the motivational talk we have at the start of every theory period.

Since the theory period is on a Friday, it gives me plenty of time to reflect (and sometimes, reject) what the lecturer has said.  Makes for some interesting and oddly philosophical thoughts.

The post on "Why am I here" is not quite ready yet.  I'm still... figuring things out and it seems that it has triggered an existential crisis for me.  

On that not, cheers ******rs! 

First Practical class

So, I had my first lesson in C# today.  Okay, not today, I had it yesterday, but since I was lazy I'm writing this post today.

It was interesting.  We had a bit of trouble convincing our lecturer that he was our lecturer since for some odd reason he believed he was a temp.  As you can imagine I spent the first half hour of the class laughing my ass off.

The only issue I had was that it was the third consecutive class in the same classroom.  Though the chairs aren't uncomfortable, my ass is a bit tender (which is a pain in the ass... get it?).  I'll write again tomorrow (or the day after tomorrow, just 'cause I can) about how the Theory class will be.

Cheers for now.
Adios.
Bye!