11th Week

Still up to me eyes in collage work, finally got my alice project done on friday though and the murder mystery is handed up too thank god. Throughout the weekend i was trying to think of what i needed to do, all i could think of was the cisco online questions. I got like two of them done and got so bloody bored i jus had to get away from the pc and go out or something. Then today i found out i had way more work to do then i thought! Computer arch., Networking and Minitab assignments and programming, stats and networking tests!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

10th week

I thought last week was pressurised, i was very very wrong....I spent every free second i could find during the weekend on me alice game and at this stage i think ive accumalated about 35 - 40 hours on the project and i havent even started the environment! I keep getting distracted, adding things i dont even need to add! Also, That murder mystery deadline is creeping up and we still dont even have all the clues done! TIME TO GET THE FINGER OUT!

9th week

Lost me job! it will be hard to enjoy myself now as i will have to live on my parents money and set an even tighter budget and going out on my money thats NOT mine is definitly out of the question, but hopefully i might be able to save a bit of lunch money to go out every now and then. This week will also be hectic in terms of projects and assignments, i have a project of some sort to do for all of my subjects and most of the deadlines are close, ill have to say goodbye to getting a good nights sleep!

8th Week

Finally got my monthly bus pass, thats a weight off my shoulders. Although i am still in a dodgy position in terms of work i have a good plan for the summer, i will look for work in the central statistics office, yes i know, il be working for the government! From what i heard they always look for students to work during the summer, 9 to 5 and about 400 euro a week. summer is a good bit away but at least its something to look forward to as it is hard at the moment to find a job that suits me besides the one im hanging onto now!

7th week

Finally finished my essay about digital terrorism, got 100% in my programming test and passed my alice test, things are going well from a short-term academic point of view, allthough there are a few exceptions; im finding it very hard to attend networking classes and when i do, i rarely learn much and in terms of my teamwork murder mystery project we have made very little progress due to the fact that there is always someone from the group who cant make the meetings and most of the time they are cancelled. I am almost tempted to do the whole thing myself just to get it out of the way, if only i had more knowledge of murder mysteries!

6th Week

I have talked to my boss and sorted out extra hours, so hopefully i wont have to limit myself to 13 euro a week for too long, not that i was successful in terms of saving. Ive been waiting for a certain ps3 game to come out for years and it came out on friday, even though i cant really afford to get anymore games, i was so bored during the wet eventless weekend that i jus ran down to extra vision and picked up the ultimate cure for bordem! another 50 euro down the drain. Well at least i got double pay for working on bank holiday monday!

5th Week

im getting really close to bankrupcy, after a disasterous week in financial terms i have just a couple of hundred in the bank. I set out last week to save money and stick to a budget, i was breaking the budget here and there and it turns out i saved no money. I Have made a proper budget which is much more strict and hopefully i can save a bit more money this time around. spending my money on mostly soup and credit ive managed to set a plan where i spent about 13 euro a week to survive. I got my parents to pay for transport (montly bus pass), ill have a packed lunch and ill buy soup the odd day, no snacks, no going out for the next couple of week, thats right im gunna be a boring basterd for the next month or so, but then again i would prefer to be boring the in debt. Hopefully ill get more hours at work and ill be able to enjoy life a bit more but for now its cold turkey till i get some more cash....

4th Week

Im really starting to notice how much money im spending now and i plan to economise and even make a budget as i am spending about 3-4 times the amount i earn a week, i think i might get more hours too as i currently only do 7 hours a week with relatively low pay. NO MORE DINNERS! the canteen food here isnt too expensive but i really gotta lay off the full meals because that and transport are the main contributers to the drainage of my hard earned cash! planning to get a bus pass and go out on the town less often, hopefully i can stick to my word and i wont be broke by next monday!!

3rd week

Spending much more time around CIT now that most of the clubs and societies are started up, finding it hard to balance socialising and leisure time with study time, theres just too much going on! I Made some pretty decent alice cartoons, at this stage alice is definitly my favorite subject because its the most creative and easy-going. Sadly on the other hand im starting to notice my interest going in a downward spiral for some of the subjects, like computer architecture. Theres relly just too much stuff too know, like "cache" and "virtual memory" and i cant seem to visualise how these things all work together. Basically it started out too complex for me so at this stage im struggling to keep up!

1st Week

(This is in the wrong order because a mistake was made when posting the 1st time)

Getting comfortable with the area and settling into college life. So Far, besides from transport issues, everything has been going smoothly! Signed up for Bank of Ireland and got a free flight voucher, I plan on using this to go to Amsterdam with my friends either during the Christmas break or summer, I cant wait!!! Havent been learning much In the lectures and labs so far because were having much technical issues getting people's logins working, i expected more from an institute of technology!

2nd Week

Moving at a slow pace in-class, but im starting to get intrested in programming and algorithmic problem solving, which go hand-in-hand. I thought algorithmic problems would involve heavy use of maths but at this stage its actually quite intresting and fun as it mainly involves using a programmer's learning tool called alice. Alice teachs programming in a 3d environment where you can design cartoons or games via a basic programming language. I mainly enjoy it because of the creativity involved!