I want to thank you all for taking part in the Crimson Room. For those of you who wish to know the solution to the room, I'll supply a link to the answers, just ask me on msn!
It's been a good couple of days.. Beth and I went out to celebrate 6 months of being together... it doesn't seem like that long at ALL.... the next 6 are going to be really tough, though... Her living in Port Elgin, and me in Toronto i mean... 2 hours isn't FOREVER, but it's *just* out of reach... I really dont know what I'm going to do, but we dont really have a choice on the matter. I mean, I guess it is possible that she could still get that job in Toronto, which would be AWESOME... but I couldn't really see something that great happening to me.. My fortune has been too good this year to have it continue on like that..
As for me, I applied for a position opening at Bell for a Telecommunications student this summer. I think my chances aren't that bad on getting in, because I've heard that they dont just hire one, but a whole raft of students.. here's hoping... if not, I know I can fall back on a position in my father's office.. which would be really great. I'd get about 12-14 hours a day working in the office and 12, if not more, dollars an hour... I could really use that. Maybe that is my best bet, because then I might be able to take a thursday/friday off to go up north and visit.. We'll see how the next couple of weeks turn out.
So, 2.. maybe 3 weeks until school is out... WOWZA. that's INSANE.. then just one more year and I'm freeeeeee.... I know a lot of you are wondering "what about his 4th year?" well, I'm banking on a couple of things there, but first I should tell you about a little conversation I had with one of our program managers.
This conversation was "off the record", so shh! dont tell anyone!
I was talking to her and she explained to me where she thinks the school failed with my program.. How their intent to make a program covering a very broad field of work backfired on them, and in doing so, created a program which was TOO broad... Sure, we get a little bit of telecomm knowledge, we get some programming knowledge, and electronics knowledge, and comptuer knowledge....... but neither one of these are really going to be enough to focus in on a specific aspect of the telecomm field... it was a little disheartening until I told her that's why a lot of us are hoping to specialize in Wireless Telecommunications (that optional 4th year that fits at the end)... she looked at me totally bold faced and explained to me how she really didn't think that we were going to have the electronics background that we will need to enter such a program. I was shocked, because we (our class) were always under the impression that this was going to be our saving grace.. Boy, were we wrong..
It's not totally out of the question, a fourth year for me I mean... I just probably wont be studying Telecommunications. I've pretty much decided to go after my A+, Network+, and MCSE certificates.. The program is a year long and costs somewhere in the neighbourhood of $5200... not bad, considering all the certifications I'll be coming out of there with... (for those of you who dont know, companies drool over you if you have these certifications).. and will pay you.. well... I know someone who gets $127 an hour for their Microsoft Certification ALONE... (that's the MCSE)... it's going to be an interesting next little while...
I finally got my C Programming class from last semester sorted out. Now I've gotta focus on writing that challenge exam for the math class I missed in first semester... I really dont know how I didn't pass that, other than the fact that I just got cocky and didn't go to class... Yea, it ended up biting me in the butt in the end...
I've gotta boogie for now, this wasn't meant to be a long post....
until next time.......
*fade to black*
:: Eldorado ::
Monday, March 29, 2004 ::
3:59:00 PM
