Perception

It’s kind of hard to believe that it’s been more than two years into my tertiary education, and sometimes I feel that I haven’t really learnt much over these last four semesters. It’s like I’ll study really hard for something only to forget it all the moment the holidays come, and this cycle just repeats itself a semester later. I wonder how much of what I learn really stays with me at the end of the day, let alone when I graduate from this institute.

I’m taking twenty-two modular credits worth of modules this term, which is the most I’ve ever taken, and the irony is that it’s also the first time I’ve actually had a three-day school week. It’s probably because I’m only taking one Computing module this time around, and I’ll attribute the reason for this phenomenon to that. The downside to this arrangement is three New Media modules, and while each is arguably less intensive than the average Computing module, having to go through numerous readings each week is only so much fun.

I’ve also signed up for a seven-week iPhone developer course by Garag3 and 2359Media, and three lessons later and I’m already finding it immensely fun. I’ve still yet to familiarise myself with Objective-C, but it hasn’t been too difficult to keep up in class so far. While ungraded, the workload is fairly intensive as the pace of the class has been fast, and I hope it’ll be manageable when school starts picking up.

NOC is just around the corner too, and going overseas for a year somehow doesn’t seem like an easily acceptable reality. I really want to make the best of it, and I’m still worrying about which company I’ll be working for. I can only hope that this one year will be the window of opportunity I’ve been waiting for, although sometimes thinking about it can be stressful. Freshman life was definitely a lot simpler.