Scenario: My criminal check comes back clear, I pass all my units this semester
Outcome: I spend a hurried few months finding accommodation and getting settled into Canberra, begin doing geek stuff for the ATO and hopefully have a successful career if not at the ATO, using the skills I learnt there to get into a very enjoyable geek job somewhere else. In addition to the completely new atmospheric, I find a very crazy and impulsive girl to test if my new bed really does have "minimal partner disturbance" as advertised. My life truly begins, I mature up and become a unique but very intelligent and influential person who looks back fondly over a life well spent.
Reaction: At this point, a quite likely outcome. Of course, some optimism thrown in there but when something seems possible, it's nice to think about it actually coming true. But seriously, meeting new bunch of people, in fact, a whole new state of people, should be interesting, I'm Perth born and bred, but would love to be able to live two hours in the future. I could warn you of future disasters in my blog posts! Or, even better, what TV to ignore tonight. (The answer is everything.) Although Canberra, from the short time I've stayed there does seem like a country town, it's at least contrary to what I'm used to. Hopefully the people I work with will be geeky enough to vent my love of a good meme or my disgust of a novelty technology
(Daddy, what was TV like when you were growing up? Well, when I was a young adult there was a belief that polarized 3D was a way of the future, and we'd all like to see sporting events where the athletes look like they're running around only a few metres away! SERIOUSLY? That's what you're going to use to make us buy into this crap, is put sport in 3D? Granted your average episode of Bold and the Beautiful isn't really going to look any better if we start televising everything in 3D but the fact is, who looks stupid for paying for a $2500 plus 6x $120 so all your mates could watch a game that ends in a draw. It doesn't improve anything, it just shows your a yuppie. And then this crap continues into the Commonwealth Games, even I will say that's a decent sporting event because it's people from around the world competing on an event that they all agree about the rules, and even the events name. (Can the UN just have a universal discussion about which game should be determined to be "Football" so we can stop having ambiguous discussions?) But the fact remains that these events do not get improved by tricking your brain into believe that there is distance. Go holographic, then we'll talk about 3D TV. And just to make things worse, very few 3D movies are being released as the 3D style. blu ray supports it, most blu ray players can be updated to support it, stop giving me Red Blue glasses from the 50's an start being consistent.
Sony, stop saying that the PS3 is 3D compliant if you don't have any media to show it off, stop believing that you'll make money from the Move. You released a game, that was controlling a guy on a office wheelie chair going down a hill and MADE IT BORING. YOU FAILED. Drop it, consider it an interesting experiment, and go do something decent, like release Uncharted 3, if you want anybody to start up your console ever again.)
I've got a supporting family who'll help me with getting there and give me the push I need to get out of my house and mingle. All I need is a girl who I can vent my crazy to and I'll be set for life (Dearest sister, you have a choice, she's either going to be a geek or insane, choose wisely.). But I shouldn't get ahead of myself.
Scenario: There's a hiccup on my criminal check, and although I complete uni, I have nowhere to go but continue my job at the department.
Outcome: Although depressed at first, finding out which internet activity brought me down will be an adventure, and I'll move up to full time and re apply for grad programs through next year, hoping for the best.
Reaction: It might bode well in the long run, might get into a grad program which gives me more opportunities, but also may end up working for the department for a long time before venturing out into the real world.
Scenario: Regardless of my security check, I screw up exams this semester and my future on the other side of the country is jeopardized.
Outcome: Hopefully, after begging and pleading with the right staff, I get supps and somehow end up out okay. Otherwise, I will be required to withdraw from grad program and spend next year with repeat(s)
Reaction: The one thing is the scenario is the possibility to do some electives until grad programs open up again - The way my double major is structured, I had no room for some units I'd love to be educated in, such as VoIP. Although you may use Skype or have a phone hooked up to your modem that you only use for international calls, cause it's cheaper for them and the latency sucks anyway, your phone communication will be all digital and exist as packets like your internet data. This requires some tricks to get it through a network with priority. If you've ever used Skype you'll know that the internet isn't quite ready to handle this on a large scale (And realise why $43 billion isn't actually that much and once it's spent, you'll never know how you lived without it. For the last time, trust me, I'm a geek, I know what I'm talking about.) And seeing this unit isn't a core for anything, I just think it would touch on some interesting things that I'll eventually encounter in the real world, as more and more businesses change from POTS to VoIP for their internal telephone systems and I'd like to have some education to what I'll face if I'm ever part of a deployment. Even though it seems like most companies are going the software VoIP route, which is at least easier to manage. the ATO use Office Communicator, I believe, which is one of the software VoIP solutions available.
Scenario: A cockroach crawls in my mouth while I'm sleeping
Outcome: Wake up, freak out, knock myself unconscious running into my bedroom door trying to get to my toothbrush, toothpaste and a camera.
Reaction: I'd get to cross out number 5 on my "Things I think would be interesting to wake up having in my mouth" list.
Scenario: I get a 5th follower
Outcome: Oh yeah, that totally happened!
Reaction: Well, I must promote Ashleigh's brilliant blog "Student's Myth's Uncovered" which is a lot like this blog if it was written more succinctly, wittier, providing better information about how to be a successful student at university and not written by a try hard. So it is nothing like this blog and therefore, you should go read it. Although, if you've read this far on this blog and you hate it, yet continue to read it, I'm not sure I can help you. Read it anyway. It's like one of those weird people who go to a restaurant, complain that the food is lousy but eat it anyway.
I don't really get food critics, they're normally chefs, they make good food, they love their own food, they go to another restaurant and complain the food they receive is nothing like the food they make and like... Right... Although open source programmers do the exact same thing.
Although unnecessary, to prove I enjoy it, and have read it, I would like to provide an unauthorised commentry:
In regard to "15 things I would tell my 15 year old self" - Point 2, For having to got into university, and not ruining the space time continuum by intervention, I think you did pretty well. I reckon Point 14 would of solved point 4... You know, just sayin'... Point 7, although I don't know your exact background, and really have no authority to comment, I was made fun of a lot for being "Interesting" at least now at university the insults have at least gotten more.. Educated. Point 10 see here, You know, part of who you once were and all of that.
In regard to being a control freak, if it helps you cope better, ignore the haters, and plus Sheldon has two PhD's and a masters, they're only mocking him, because they envy him. Or at least, I envy him..
In regards to Education, in regards to the noisy balcony dwellers, the accepted statement is "Tits or GTFO." originating from the infamous b community in which to start a thread an image must be posted. The statement is used in the circumstance where a secondary party to the original poster finds that the initial party's post will not add any new or revolutionary incites that will result in further discussion. The secondary party therefore suggests that the first party should post some pornographic imagery as the secondary party believe this will provoke more or better discussion, then what was originally posted. However, in circumstances such as this where the secondary party is simply requesting the pornographic materials and not aiding to the conversation in anyway themselves, I believe that it is acceptable to tell them "IT'S THREE O'CLOCK IN THE FREAKIN' MORNING GO LOOK FOR BREASTS SOMEWHERE ELSE." Ahem.
In regards to the example assignment, if you too want to extend an assignment because you
don't know what else to write. Open up a new word document, type in "=rand(3,27)" without the quotes an hit enter.
In other news I found looking through my statistics, as well as being hit by a number of spam bots, this blog was found and visited when someone was looking for "ICT218 Assignment 1" Now as an unit I absolutely loved, and the fact that I got a decent mark on assignment 1, I have decided to post my ICT218 Assignment 1 up to anyone who'd like a looksee at a good guide for how to get a pretty high mark .
Also looking through my stats, I found that I was being found from this undergrad site where I appear in a spindle adverting Jess' Johnathan's and my blog, with my quote about the amazement of finding other geek, on a pretty good promo site, which only gripe is how the degree's are grouped. I understand that the building is not, and will never be ECLIT, but, putting IT under "Media and Creative Technologies?" The way I see it, Curtin and Murdoch both appeal heavily to Business Students, Curtin also heavily promotes Engineering. ECU caters to arts students with WAAPA, UWA advertises to people who want "UWA" on their degree. But none of these uni's cater for the geeks.
It is a pretty niche field, but Murdoch, I believe you still have the only Cyber Forensics degree IN THE COUNTRY. You could do so much, now I know that you have the "freethinkers" advertising campaign which is good, but when I was looking for a uni to cater for an IT course, I found all of them have them, but they... Don't seem to like to admit it. I'm sure it's similar with a lot of other fields, like I'm not sure how many people know about your chiropractic clinic who should know your chiropractic clinic. Or of your veterinary science program. I guess peoples interest in a course will make people find these things. And I guess advertising a university having an "exclusive" course can come off as the university looking a little.. Well, UWAP itself, but you know, something to think about.
now granted, this site is advertising the open day so this site might have been around since June and me just not know about it.
Ashleigh's blog is still pretty young with only a few posts, but seems like posts will be quite frequent, and it already has more than "I'll bet anything I forget this" Pursuit of Perfect Pasta, which reads similarly and was awesome, if only for one post.
I believe that Murdoch should pick this one up and put it on the endorsed bloggers page next year. I suggest this because most of my dreams about next year involve me leaving Murdoch, i.e. No more "Uni Life"
So this leaves me at a crossroads with what to about this blog, do I leave it uneditable, forever immortalised, hoping that Murdoch stick it on a "Alumni" site somewhere, while I move onto a new blog "Disorderly Accounts of Everyday Life?"
Do I add my Alumni experiences onto this blog so my sister doesn't have to try and remember a new URL?
OR... DO I HAND IT ON.
I'm sure in my audience is a current year 12 or first year student, also wanting to post there experiences after starting at Murdoch. Granted the writing style would change, and it may tarnish the DAUL name to even lower lows. But I wish that Murdoch could recognise the incredible journey of a young boy finding his voice and explaining the geek experience of uni.But atlas, I understand that I am a simple undergraduate, with a very average grade and a very average story.
I should get you to vote on that or something, what do I do with this blog? You the reader! What should I do? I'm not even a graduate, I'm not educated enough to make decisions!
While you mull that over, have a look at this Graffiti of the week, I know it's technically not graffiti, but the only other one I found was something written on a poster about Chlamydia, which was quite sexist, so I thought I'd post something I found which was not as sexist:
And a picture another Sundae that has makes another part of the student balanced* diet
Until the actual future happens, Goodbye.
* Student Balanced Diet: Eat food with hight fat and sugar content, balance with alcohol
