I handed in my last assignment on Wednesday and it’s a good feeling. I have finally finished my second year at University.
The work load was about what I expected but, as I found the first year quite easy it made me cocky with assignments which showed in my grades this year. The problems was also in some of the units which we were made to take which in all honest opinion were completely unrelated to my course or any of the technologies I plan on using in the future. Especially on the career path I want to take.
I have felt that this year University has inhibited my learning process for the area I want to be working in. I understand that it’s good to have a variety of skills but getting Web Technology students to take 2 full units (24 weeks) on Macromedia Director is completely pointless. We did however put pressure on the course leaders to let us use Macromedia/Adobe Flash for the 2nd unit as it is an application which we will come across in the jobs related to the course we are taking.
Summer is going to be very productive. I am going to be doing as much freelance work as possible to pull in some money and gain some more credible clients and experience. I am also going to be working on a few applications which I have been planning with one of the people on my course for the past 10 months. Finally I am going to be working on my dissertation and final year project. At the moment is looking towards being a wiki based code sharing facility for web programming. But summer is a long time and I have a few holidays planned which will create inspirational thinking time for where I want to be going with the final year project.
Also on the agenda is to finish learning how to drive and to pass my driving test if possible by the end of the summer.