It is the second semester at university and all is going hectic at the moment. This week started at a pace that I couldn't believed. Theory modules start popping up like mad and I already had my first test. Many of my class can relate the feeling. It is unbelievable.
Weekends I have no fun at all. My bachelors degree in IT demands all of my attention. I can't even remember when last did I went to a club or a pub and hang out with friends on the dance floor or at a pool table.
Sad, I know. Four years of studying full time is not for sissies. Here in South Africa, you would waist your time applying for a part time job. Most places only offer full-time employment for you. Since I'm a full-time student that offer is impossible to take. My bachelors degree project, I have to complete soon is taking my free time away from me. I have to code functions and procedures and make things work for a tracking application that needs to integrated with the university's systems.
I love doing projects but I'm young. I still want to go out and live. I miss those days of my gap-year I took before getting myself involved with varsity. Life seem so easy back then. Had a full-time job. Made lots of friends and saved money. It's like they say once you tasted money you actually never want to study but I made the right choice.
Taking back my years. I was a handsome fella. A bit wild but never the less I went out and lived in the evenings. Made road trips and had almost every night a movie night with friends. The life any young person could think of. Everything changed when I started to attend classes at university. Sure we get holidays but the university actually takes that away from you because of projects.
Hopefully I can pull it off getting my degree. No time for slacking. Consent hard work, practicing advanced coding patterns and theory.
I'm trying to save up some money to get myself a pair of anti-glare computer spectacles I can wear during time of working on my project and practicing my patterns. It's been awhile that my eyes are contently watching a screen. I don't want to see myself having weak eye sight later on. It be really great if you guys can support me perhaps just a little if it not too much to ask. Then my eye sight could just hold out longer.
Please hit the donate button if you want to help me achieve this small goal of mine.
I can relate to this many times. Feeling so drained after one has wrote an exam, sometimes 3 hours for each one. Just praying that you made a pass on it is enough. I know myself since high school, focusing your mind on problem solving can work. The side effect of that it is, taking hours and hours away from you. I remember staying up late at night figuring out how to work out math formulas and other problem solving techniques for computer language. I wasn't a guineas with math or algorithms but I love working on computers so I had to.
The garbage in and garbage out term is true. What ever you think of doing to a computer as a developer giving the wrong input can totally mess up your application you are developing.
Some of you might say I'm studying in the wrong field. Well like referring to my other posts, I love to see things work on a computer. It is just absolutely fascinating for me. Yesterday I have discovered how to program charts in a Android application. How awesome is that!
I have develop three applications on the Google Play store, and I'm planing to do more next year after studies. I want to world to see I can be part of the developing community, especially with the mobile industry.
Here are links to my work if you like to check them out :)
I have develop these application last year in my free time.
Thank you for taking the time reading this blog.
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