I <3 Dirk

Well, im in the library, and this blog is actually for my uni blog, but my silly phone can only blog to one blog, as in, there isnt a feature to let me choose which blog it posts to. I figure ill just copy and paste to the uni blog later.

Yesterday i got out of my FIT2001 lab within 30mins which was bloody awesome because i got to skip peak hour traffic. The usual 6pm finish is absolute death.
We had our interview which was pretty good. Peter, our tutor, helped us out with a few issues. Im glad that it went smoothly too. I was a bit worried that our questions were a bit vague, but the interview with peter/"dirk" went really well and a lot of things were clarified. Like, i thought it would have been standard to include like an online catalog/shop, but "dirk" doesnt want one at this stage in development. YEY!!

The souvlaki i just had was quality. The end.

less is more

well, i have switched tutes just for today, because i have orchestra rehearsal tonight at 6.30 and there is no way i can make it from uni (which normally finishes at 6pm tonight if i go to my allocated 2001 lab) to orchestra in time. especially since my baby is in hospital. he needs a new radiator. and the mechanic called me up today telling me that it will cost $600 to get him all fixed up. $450 just for the radiator. I DON'T THINK SO! i believe i am getting heavily ripped off, i'm sure i can find my own radiator for ~$200 and do it myself, but i'll probably just screw it up.
The doc was supposed to call me up yesterday afternoon to tell me the diagnosis (even though i already know what's wrong) but didn't call until 10am this morning. I thought he might have lost my number, because all he did was write it down on a scrap piece of paper. I believe that if he got a full information system implemented in his shop he'd be a much happier man, with much happier customers. even if he just set up a small network, with a customer database, he'd improve his business standard greatly. maybe he can hire me as his systems analyst and pay me heaps of money for my services, so that i can actually afford my radiator. :P
ps. $50 for coolant... what the hell?

today in the tute, we went over bits of the assignment, and listened to the MP3 for the assignment. My tutor has decided that the tutorial MP3 is far too long to listen to, so we are doing some research on the basecamp program and all that sort of thing. it's quite interesting, that Jason whoever, is a very smart man. i'd very much like to start up my own company. i'd really like to be called an entrepreneur. it sounds very fancy.
i have a second job interview next week for a small IT consulting/Systems Analyst company that started from scratch about 10 years ago. They are quite successful for their size, however i'm not sure if the job is for me. I'd really like to be a junior analyst, or something more hands on with the analyst idea, but the job sounds like phone sales and reception duties. maybe because i'm a girl?
i'm getting an interview with another company in port melbourne for help dest/IT support which might be more suited to what im looking for. with time i might be able to tailor my job description.

todays lecture started off a bit strange, Yen was kind of very aggressive in the way that she conveyed her information. and not in a particually good way either. i felt as though she was pushing information at us.
you can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink it. unless you flavour the water.
maybe if she really related to the class, and made it more interesting we'd concentrate more.
i noticed after the break, that the amount of students in the theatre decreased a lot. so i am obviously not alone with my views.
on the other hand, i am enjoying pods lectures when i get time to listen to bits and pieces of them. his podcasts are pretty nifty too. crazy cat that guy.

chow.

food and water

well, after some awesome discussion last tute, we just did out presentaion. we fail at life. i think most of the stuff we discussed previously we had forgotten. but we strived and topped the class, the other groups clearly didn't have a chance against us because we were so good.

although, the last group had diagrams. thats cheating though. yen cheung could win a miss universe competition if she had diagrams.

oh goodness.

well, as it turns out, FIT2001 is the most awesome subject ever. basically, the only hurdle requirement is to keep a blog. i would Ph.D in blogging if it were possible.

today, i had my very first systems analysis and design lecture this morning, which was pretty good. i'm going to like this subject. after the lecture and a 2 hour break i had my lab, which was dandy. the tutor (who was filling in for my regular tutor) really got me thinking about a career in systems analysis. im really warming to the idea of being a "middleman" as he put it. the subject, they say - after a few weeks, should get us thinking like a systems analysist. i'm not sure if this is high hopes or whatever. but ok!

the group work in the labs was a bit airy-fairy which i liked. there was a set question, but not.
my group really had to think about what was being asked of us, and once we got started on the brainstorming, we were soon loaded with ideas. this is good in a way as i can imagine that in the professional world as a systems analyst, this kind of brainstorming and team work would be done on a daily basis. it's basically in the job description!

enough now.