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Thursday’s graduation

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Pictures here. Degree comes in the mail next week, maybe.

Also, I was asked for my name by a pro photographer while I was sitting in the front row at the ceremony. Since I didn’t see any pictures at the Telegraph website, I guess he was doing it for the Houston Home Journal (the only other newspaper in the area).

And I think I’m switching my courses up: I’ll probably do English as a major with Programming as a minor.

Anyway, I’m bored.

My current projects:

  • Compiling a Wikipedia-friendly list of all candidates, winning or losing, in the Zimbabwean parliamentary election from a few months ago.
  • Fooling with Ubuntu Hardy via Wubi. The Compiz Fusion installation, however, leaves a bit to be desired (I’m totally f’ing lost on how to get the effects that have been touted so much on YouTube working in Ubuntu, although the most basic effects work as much as the scroll on the touchpad will allow), and the fonts suck as usual (yes, I know the reasons, just sayin’). I can at least say that this is the first time that I can work with Ubuntu without it becoming a stumble.
  • Thinking. Reeeal hard.

So that’s it.

Where I’m headed

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So, it’s official. I’m only a week away from the end of the website design program at MGTC. In fact, I’ll be one of the last to graduate from the class, since they’ve officially dissolved the program at the certificate and diploma levels until they can get enough students to justify the cost (or so goes the official explanation from the CIS department).

Anyway, I’m graduating with an associate’s degree next Thursday. Then the FAFSA needs to be done (by the 30th), at which point I seem rather set to head to Macon State’s WR campus in the fall. While I will take up computer programming there (since there’s no website design equivalent at MSC), I think it may be a minor for me; I might take up political science (again) as a major, instead.

Yes, it is frickin’ summer-fall 2005 all over again. But I think that, this time around, it will be far from the debacle at Oglethorpe.

And why the poli-sci major? Well, I can’t seem to stay away from it in my train of thought, although I know that poli-sci won’t end up paying the bills.

I dunno, maybe it should be the other way around, with poli-sci being the minor and programming being the major (since I can at least become a teacher in the programming/website design field). Plus, computer programming will be a personal focus for me since I want to retake a few classes that I didn’t do well in during the website design program at MGTC (i.e., database networking, PHP, Javascript, mostly back-end and programming stuff). That way, I can be much more acclimated to programming on a daily basis than I was when I first took the classes at MGTC.

Also, making honors and getting an IT job will be other major focuses of mine when I go to MSC.