Nov 13th, 2007 | Education, General, Personal | 18 Comments
Hm, it seems like I totally forgot about this nice blog :( Actually, I didn’t have anything to write, so I skipped it for some time, but now I though would be nice to drop couple of lines, so here is a short update on how it is going at my side:
1. Still attending college. This establishment consumes a lot of my resources like money, health, time, without giving me much back. Hopefully this will finish one day.
2. Playing Quake 3 Arena again. It’s been few years since I played Q3A, but now I am back. I’ve also brought some more people with me.
3. Trying CPMA mod for Q3A (instead of normal OSP I used to play). Looks cool, fast, tricky. The only thing is that it is too sharp (meaning the movements) and I don’t like that much :( We’ll see.
4. Waiting for Christmas. Wanna some rest
Oct 3rd, 2007 | Education, Personal | 1 Comment
I am back to the college university for my studies. This time I was very surprised with the bloody prices - they grow too fast. I took 4 subjects (13 credits/hours per week) and my bill came up to CYP 2200+ which is way too much. They also increased the initial deposits from CYP 400 to CYP 500 and so on and so forth. Hopefully I will finish my studies kinda soon and manage to get rid of this expenses (plus CYP 200 per months for petrol which I spend going to Nicosia and back 4 times a week).
Good point is that I managed to take evening (or at least after lunch) courses, so I don’t have to wake up at 5 AM each morning. I prefer to come home a bit later (10 PM or so) instead of morning trips.
Now I am waiting for Christmas :)
Sep 10th, 2007 | Education, Events, Personal | No Comments
Finally! I have managed to pass all those math classes required to get CS bachelor. I really hate math and have huge difficulties with anything related to the subject. Now, after I passed the Linear Algebra exam, the only difficult class left is General Physics 2, the rest is more or less fine since it has direct connection to CS.
BTW, the grade for LA was D+ (I didn’t buy any books, and skipped few classes and didn’t study anything except from what I have seen during classes and couple of hours of reading related internet sites before exam)
Sep 7th, 2007 | Education, General, Personal | 2 Comments
I really, really hate these pre-college days when I need to do a bunch of arrangements and a lot of trips to Nicosia in order to fix the fees, registration and visa stuff in my college. That’s all makes me feel exosted and I really, really hate it once again!
Jul 12th, 2007 | Education, Personal, Technology | 2 Comments
As far as I see there are two ways of learning things: one is to touch upon a lot of subjects from different areas to some extend and be get more or less deep in one particular, another is to ignore a lot of stuff out there and just focus on one subject deepest possible. For instance one may be quite familiar with different programming languages like C, Java, Perl, PHP, Visual Basic and programming for different platforms, in addition know a bunch of things about system administration on different OSes and so on and so forth and be more advanced let’s say on Linux administration or whatever. Another person may not know all of those things, but be very very good in Java programming or any other field.
Until now I was more of the first type of the person where I was getting my hands on everything I could and meanwhile I was doing Linux administration (especially in MS Windows network environment) better than anything else. But recently I thought that maybe I should change the approach and just focus all my attention on one thing to get to do it perfectly well? What is the way you do things?