So it’s the first day of 2012, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to reflect on the last 4 months of my life. 4 months which have been the most stressful, exhausting, depressing and debilitating of my life. There’s been tears, fights, doctors visits and postponed exams. I’ve developed a real dislike for UCD, and the current structure of higher education, and the way it’s moving. Yet despite all this I’m hanging in, I’m going to finish this motherfucking degree!
So how did I get here?
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while but between preparing for 4th year, and just being lazy, I’ve only gotten around to it this evening. For those of you that don’t know I spent the first six months of 2011 doing an internship at HeyStaks (a social search start-up) under an experimental program [...]
Get Right to the point As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I’m posting the source code for the WikiGolf game that I submitted for my Software Engineering Project II module. My team was called “The Channel 4 News Team” and we spend about 5 weeks doing this. I outlined the concept for the [...]
Just before we broke for Spring Break, we were given our end of year assignment for my Data Structures & Algorithms module. We were given a fully implemented keyboard interface, as shown below, and we had to design and implement a class that takes the input from the keyboard and creates a predictive text system [...]
I finished my First Year of college about a month ago, and my results for the year just came out. Overall I’m happy with them and since I put them up on Boards.ie already I don’t see any harm in putting them up here. 4 A+’s – (Intro to Programming I, Intro to Programming II, [...]