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Hey there every-peoples! murf here to deliver yet another not-very rousing tale in the chronicles of my life. I assure, it's as pointless and unnecessary as is the majority of my previous rantings, but it makes me feel better writing these things. Ya know, get stuff off my chest.
So, here's the haps! My college-type education progresses at what seems to be a very expidient pace. Why, it only seems like the other day I had started school, my grandmother had passed away, Katrina reeked havoc upon the Gulf Coast and various other events that occured within my first few months. Now, here I stand before the final stretch of path. With only 4 months to go, I feel as though my brain is reaching critical mass. I fear the effects of the infamous “senior-itious” returning to claim me as they did in High School. Yet, I think the looming mutliple 10s of thousands of dollars spent on my education hanging over my head will keep me straight.
So, how are things progressing? Slower, thankfully. The two classes I'm currently in are Digital Media Production [DMP] and Interactive Media Design [IMD], both 2 month courses which are now half over. DMP covers the work of flow of a project, from concept to completion. However, they use video production as the model. This is both good and bad too me, mostly for the same reason. I've done this kind of thing before in High School. I, by no means, profess myself an expert in the field, far from it. However, alot of the information I hear spewed out is all stuff I know, with a slight interjection of some minor, totally out there, thing I don't know. Lecture is boring as sin, and I feel like it's drilling a hole into the side of my skull. On the plus side, I've been getting a lot of concept work for an upcoming personal project done.
IMD's first month seems to be a rehashing of stuff we learned in Flash, only with a different coding language. The project seemed very similar to what we did in Flash. This month's project falls into the category of: make a game. Should be interesting, not 100% sure what I'm gonna do, but it'll give me a reason to maybe pay attention now.
After these two classes finish, only a handful of classes remain. Digtial Media Assembly and Business Communications in April, DMA continues along with Media & Society for May, and then June is dedicated all to one class: Digital Publishing. Hard to imagine how fast it has gone by. I should start working with carrer placement come April/May, and hopefully I'll land myself a good job somewhere. It's fairly definate that I'm going into web. I've got a lot to still learn for the more advanced stuff, but I've started taking some private lessons on PHP under the tutelage of Mike G. (My Advanced Web Design teacher), so hopefully I'll be able to better work on the upcoming sections of murf-STUFF.
Speaking of that, with my first lesson done, I'm doing some test work for what will become murf-ART. There's a lot of fancy database/PHP work at hand, so we'll see how that flies. I'm hoping to get murf-ART underway within the week. Also, I recently aided my buddy Joe Laurino in his own webcomic endeavor by coding the PHP for his site. So they'll be up soon.
In other news, I've started up a new character on a new server in FF-XI. This may seem odd, as restarting after attaining Lv. 60 seems counter productive. This may be true, but I did this to sort of “re-invigorate” the game. Oddly, it's working. I used to log in without knowing what I should do, but know I can start up with the only worry being knowing what to do, and I know how to do because I've already done it before. It's nice. Adding to the list of cool accomplishments I've achieved in FF-XI, I managed to solo to 18, with no subjob. That's a feat. Trust me.
Now that I have hi-speed type internets, I tend to watch a lot of video things. I've seen some cool ones. So I'm gonna start sharing a few that I really like. For this rant, only one, it's called [Balancing Point]. It takes a little while to get going… but it's pretty cool. With that, I'm off for now. Take care now.
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