I feel like I learnt so much during my time at RIM, taking so much away from those around me, and it was all very relevant stuff. I guess it’s hard now to transition back to the theoretical side of things where you don’t always see the direct application of what you are doing.

For example I am taking the Software Tools course which we learn all about Object Oriented Design, Program Verification and program in the lovely programming language Eiffel. Now don’t get me wrong I’m sure Eiffel is a great language that nobody uses, but why the hell are we learning it? It has zero application to what any of us will be doing in our real jobs and I know the second I leave this class I will totally dismiss it as an alternative to developing in C/C++/Java. I understand that it is a great teaching tool for teaching students how to use design by contract, and do proper testing for program verification, but it’s not like this kind of stuff can’t be done in other languages.

For example could the unit tests not be done in Junit which would at least teach us something we are going to use in our every day lives? Anyway I guess you can see what I’m trying to get at, I guess I’m still a little touchy about the whole subject right now.

So hopefully the next couple of months will go by quickly, I love school, and I don’t think I will ever stop wanting to learn more, I just think at this particular moment in my life I really want to get back to actually doing something productive. I want to be on the a team feeling like a productive member and actually building things I know people will use.

So I guess all I can say is come on January! So I can get back to actually working

I would also like to say that I wish the major media outlets would stop their extensive coverage of the shootings. Having gone through the Columbine shootings, we can all safely assume that there will probably be some type of copy cat shooting over the next couple of weeks/months. I feel that as the media coverage grows for this horrific incident the likelihood of one of these copycat shootings happening will increase.

I do not feel like the media should not be reporting about this horrific day, but at the same time seeing pictures of a crazed gunman pointing guns at the camera, and playing his video for the entire world to see. This act does nothing but remind those involved about the atrocities they have experienced and ultimately gives the gunman exactly what he wanted, recognition and fame. If the media and authorities were smart, which I no doubt believe that deep down they are, they would keep coverage to a minimum, in order to prevent people from connecting with this shooter in the same manner that he connected with the shooters from Columbine.

Again I extend my condolences to anyone connected to this shooting in anyway, let’s hope that the media learns from their mistakes and at least tries to be a little more proactive in the coverage of this event, for the sake of us all.

I really just can’t wait to get done with exams, it’s only 1 week out now and I’m sure everyone feels the same. I wish I could just put my head down and work and forget about everything else, almost like checking out for the next week.

So how does everyone out there combat their burn out? I need some help!

I’ll be starting in April and working out there until the end of August. I honestly cannot wait to get out there and be part of an amazing company like RIM, I really hope to bring a lot to the team and I also hope to learn a lot about working in a team environment in such a technical company like RIM.

Look forward to lots of pictures of Waterloo, it’s supposed to be an absolutely beautiful to be in the summer time, I can’t wait to get out on my own

Back to studying …

When doing a bullet proof of weakening we can experience the joys of immaculate conception. If you have never seen the proof you might not understand, we are trying to proove that A proves A v B, and in order to do so we must create a new something from nothing. If this doesn’t describe immaculate conception I don’t know what does.

Although now that I’ve type this out I don’t think anyone is going to find this funny, but I did! Maybe it’s a sign that my mind is beginning to warp under the pressure of midterms.

Anyway back to studying … and counting the days

Speaking of Yellow Pages, I went for a meeting this week, and I have a job there for me this summer which will start after my first semester of summer school in late June. It should be fun going back to work for them, they were really great to me last year and I really enjoyed my time there. Plus it’s good to keep networking within their organization since I have an interest to work for their IT department after graduation.

Also I’m taking summer school, like I mentioned above to try and finish faster. From May to June I’m taking a hummanities course in popular culture, from June to August it’s integral calculus, and for the whole summer 1 night a week it’s Computational Set Theory YAY

Let’s just get this semester over with and I’ll start worrying about the next one.

Now all I have to do is write my calculus test and I’m going to be one very happy man.

I’ve been working on some more projects for clients. I installed visual studio 2005 and all I can say is that Microsoft has done a great job improving .Net, especially the localization aspect of it. However that being said the IDE has gotten even more bloated, even on my machine with 1gig of ram I notice it being somewhat sluggish. Other then that I’ve really enjoyed working with the new components, like the Background Worker, which makes creating multithreaded applications a lot simpler then before.

Anyway just a little update on what’s going on, t-minus 31 days till christmas YAY!

Sigh, I wish for the days when things were a lot simpler, University is so boring right now, no computer science courses makes life sucky, especially when all you do is math and sciences courses.

I’ve been gearing up for the holiday season, I wound up buying once of those USB snowman
I love it, since it’s the only decoration in my room. There’s nothing like having a glowing snowman that sings to you when you are studying.