Since the last post, there have been multiple complications. Being predominately personal reasons, I won’t delve too much into that; suffice to say I’ve been falling behind with work. I’m not proud of it, of course, and I can only hope that I have enough time to get up to date. My calendar was more or less a complete and utter failure, partly because I’ve never had a calendar before, but mostly because I have such a warped sense of time that the timetable was little more than insane.
Security Systems:
Although I only have this once a week, for little over an hour, I have managed to pick up rather a lot. For example, in the last lesson, we learnt how to alter processes on a system through the network from a separate computer, opening notepad, for example.
Key Skills:
There is still not much to say in this subject, so faced with the risk of repeating myself, I won’t.
Website Production and Management:
With review week approaching, lessons become focused on lessons passed. If nothing else, this has had a strange, unexpected effect on me. Revision seems a lot less of a chore, and more of a necessity, like sleeping and eating. I know that I should have been revising over the work I’ve done, at the end of the day, but I’ve never managed to get into the habit of doing it. Of course, not being in to learn at least half of the stuff I should do plays a part in that.
Networking:
Wednesday being the one day I rarely miss (By some seemingly otherworldly reason. Or coincidence. Either way) I’ve managed to see 3 lessons of networking a week, nearly every week. This lesson has had almost unexplainable benefits, but when faced with a network issue, I instantly have a general idea of where the problem could be occurring. Which, I’m sure you agree, is better than kicking my wireless adapter across the room.
Software Design and Development:
The prospect of moving from visual basic to C# has instilled me with an odd sense of motivation; perhaps not enough to make a difference, but enough to be seen. Like nibbling the end of a chocolate bar, not enough to taste it, but it’s definitely there.
Advanced Databases:
Being the most laid back and easy-to-grasp lesson of the learning week, it’s hard to say I’ve learnt much from these lessons. See last week’s blog to get a better idea of what I mean.
Communications and employability skills for IT:
Well, of course, this blog wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for Comms and Employability. I’ve missed a lot of work, here too… On the up side, I’m soon to learn the value of pressure.
Computer systems:
Attendance is regrettably one of my weak points, and the main unit to suffer is this one. If I said I have learnt much in this unit, I would be lying, but if I said I’ve learnt a lot in relation to how long I’ve been there, would you trust me? Of course, when I’m there, I gain invaluable knowledge about the computers inner workings. If I could just find a way to improve my attendance I’m sure I’d have a lot more to say here.
I will persist with my personal time table, but like everything in life I can only wait and see (Not that waiting and seeing is all I’ll be doing). I’ve written up a checklist for all of the tasks in all of my units that need to be completed before review week is over. Hopefully by the end this A4 page will be empty, and my confidence can be restored. It’s a little more than daunting to see two full columns of work you should have done a long, long time ago.
So on the whole, life in education is looking grim, but if luck can sprout for me, my will might have a fighting chance.
