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Exams? Done!
It’s been quite a while since my last post. I’ve been busy. Not a good excuse, but it’s all I’ve got. I had 2 exams left at the end of September and I’m glad to say their finally behind me. It’s quite an achievement for me and it’s implications are only now beginning to dawn on me.
No more exams.
It’s a mind boggling thought. I can not believe that from now on I can actually learn what I want to. Don’t get me wrong. I definitely picked the right school to go to and the courses themselves or rather the ideas for them were mostly OK. The problems lay in the execution of these courses. Some went too deep yet others went to wide. Professors didn’t seem to get were the sweet spot is. The worst thing about it was, that they didn’t seem to try or even care and find it. This left us students frustrated which is not a way to go if you want to motivate young minds. I must admit that these last 2 exams took everything I’ve got to get through. But I did it and I’m really proud of myself.
So what does this mean? It means I’ve only got one thing left to reach the end of the path that is formal education – diploma. On Friday I’m going to hand in all the forms and papers to make it formal. If you’re interested my thesis is going to be about Recommender Systems. I’m still waiting on a formal title, but that’s my mentor’s job. I’m actually really looking forward to getting to work. Should be fun.
Just to keep this a wholesome post let add that this is the only part (finish school) of my New Year’s resolution I’ve been working on. With exams behind me it now makes it a lot easier to focus on other goals. My parents were kind enough to help me through the past few months financially, but getting a job is now quite high on my priority list. I’ll also start working out as it started to warm up outside. Socializing is probably the last on my list, but I’ve got to make sacrifices somewhere, don’t I?
Busy Times
These past 2 weeks I’ve been drowning in work. As I said in the beginning of July I’m doing The Challenge 2010. It’s going OK for now. I’m a bit behind though. I’ll be writing more about this in future posts.
I’ve also had an exam to deal with. And I still have a few of those left. 4 to be exact. According to my calendar I should be done with them a day or two before my birthday, 24th of September. I really hope it goes according to my plans and I pass all of them as they are starting to affect my future plans way too much. The problem is in not being able to get a routine in my daily life. I function way better when I have one and am a lot more productive as well. Help out and wish me luck 
I’ve also stopped jogging as it used up too much of my energy and I couldn’t study. I haven’t given up though. I’ll be taking it back up as soon as I’m done with school stuff. I actually miss jogging and I feel it in my legs. They get very jittery from time to time and I can hardly sit still when that happens.
As you can see school has (again) taken over my life and I really just want to be over with it. The last thing it’s been messing with is my writing. As you can see this is my first post in 2 weeks. And it’s not for the lack of ideas. I have about 4 draft post on my posts list. I make those so I don’t forget any good ideas I get. And I’ll have to make a few more for the ones that are still in my head.
I’ll probably take the next few hours for writing and hopefully I’ll pump out some good content. I’ll post these over the next few weeks. So stay tuned.
