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College Exams

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

I’ve been lucky this summer with the exams. I had only one to sit. That is only due to doing the course part time. The full time students in my year have had to do 3. Last year there where 5 or 6 exams for the full time students while I had only 3. The course was changed this year to a lot of continious assessments. This was a good thing for obvious reasons, doing small exams through out the year and handing up projects as we went along. It meant no extra study for summer exams.

Now that I have finished college for the summer, I’ll get the chance to complete my home study course for PC repair and upgrade. It’s an easy course. I just need the piece of paper that says I can do these things. So bring it on. Also now that I don’t have to attend classes during the day it leaves me a lot more time for myself during the day before going to work. Plans, finish home study course, reading some of my many unread books and getting out and enjoying the weather by plenty of walking.

Planning to go back to London at the end of this month, volcanic ash cloud permitting. Loved London when I was there back in January. Chelsea flower show is on during the dates that I plan to be there, so I’ll get myself a ticket and pop along to see what all of the fuss is about.

Mike.

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Another Wee Update

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Again it has been a while since my last post. So I should really have a few things to say, and I do. It’s the Friday of the May bank holiday weekend so it means a few days off, a few days to relax and few days to also get things done. Took last night off work, just so that the weekend would be that bit longer. Went to the cinema to see Dear John, Dear God!! Don’t bother people!! Go for a pint, because that will be what you’ll need after it. This film has no plot, no real story line. They fall in love, he goes to war, they write letters and…well that’s it,they write letters. Although going in I made the mistake of asking for Iron Man 2 tickets but went in anyway. I think it was my subconscious telling me that I should go to Iron Man 2!!

Off to Dublin tomorrow for the night. Gonna head up early meet my cousin and shop for the day, find somewhere to stay and then head out for the night. If I don’t find somewhere to stay I’ll just get the bus back to Galway after the night club. I love going out in Dublin. I think it is due to the fact that it is somewhere different, also the scene is a lot different and much better than the one here in Galway.

Had an exam yesterday. Not good, but I was expecting that. It’s one of those subjects that is just almost impossible to understand. I’m not alone on this one. I have asked other classmates and they are all in the same boat. None of us like the subject or the teaching method use, rather than the lecturer. I have a project and a report due in on Tuesday morning. Almost done with it now, then it is just one more exam after that and I am free of college until September.

Well that is all the update that I have for the moment. I would like to post more frequently but never really get the chance to, maybe with the summer coming and college finished until September I may get to posting more often.

Mike.

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Digital Electronics Exam

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Had an exam today on digital electronics. Not the worst of subjects, if I had atteneded all of the classes. There was always one lecture on a Thursday evening between 5 and 6 that I couldn’t attend because of work. So as you can imagine, I missed a good lot of notes and was behind. Only for Moodle, ah yes, I hear you say, good auld Moodle. Wait, you don’t know what moodle is? My god, get with the times people. It is only GMITs online system that lets you access class notes and lectures that you have missed!!

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So missing a class should not be too much of a problem then, should it? Well if the lecturers ever decide to use it, then yes it is and lucky for me, the lecturer of this subject did. I was able to download the notes and study. Thank f**k!!

Was in College this morning for 10 and spent 3 hours studying. The exam was sooo easy. I should have stayed in bed for another 3 hours this morning. Joking. The 3 hours this morning really did help. I went over a few last things that I didn’t get to cover the previous week while studying.

So only one last exam left, which is PC’s & Multimedia, on Wednesday morning. I have Tuesday evening off work for my study so I don’t see too much problems with this one. It is a subject that I like and have an interest in and also have a good deal of knowledge on already.

Later,

Mike.

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