Sean McNamara » College http://seanmcn.com Student / Programmer / Game Enthusiast Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:13:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Back to College http://www.seanmcn.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fseanmcn.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fback-to-college%2F&seed_title=Back+to+College http://www.seanmcn.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fseanmcn.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fback-to-college%2F&seed_title=Back+to+College#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:45:40 +0000 Sean http://seanmcn.com/?p=231 WIT
So Halloween’s over now, today’s the first day back in college!
Trying to keep the blog active but it’s hard work with all the college assignments and a recent kick the immune system in health leading to falling behind in said assignments! Ah the fun.. thank god we are doing Java, any other language and I would be SCREWED by now! :P So head down now till Christmas, 5 weeks to go till the exams!
I’ll post when I can, till then friends, keep an eye out! ;)

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The deal is completely live yet but it is confirmed by Microsoft as you can see on Twitter here.. Students in USA and UK will be able to get Windows 7 for only $30 by using their college email! This is a nice step by Microsoft.
Emailing them now to see if this will be including Irish students! — Will update here on response

  • Received email from Brianna @ Microsoft. She is conferring with her colleagues and will get back to me
  • Microsoft Representative failed me, provided inaccurate information and completely ignored my question. Is anyone actually able to get an answer of these corporations?
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So I made it two days into college, getting up at 7am to get the bus. Needless to say it was a shock to the system, thought it was okay, but a shock all the same. What I didn’t expect was to be dying sick from Wednesday onwards. All that tiredness just DESTROYED my immune system and my immune system is usually pretty damn good! So currently at home dying from a chest infection / some bug? Doesn’t seem like Swine Flu, but I haven’t been to a doctor yet! :P Not that I haven’t booked an appointment I was meant to be in the doctor Friday, but I went asleep Thursday night about 1am and didn’t wake up till  Saturday at 2am. Thats a 25 hour unitterupted sleep, which was extreemly confusing when I got up in the pitch black of night, checked the time on my phone and it told me it was 2pm. A stumble into the kitchen to check the internet time let me know that day had not become night and it was 2am Saturday. It always feels wierd waking up after a 24 hour sleep! :S So needless to say after 25 hours sleep there’s not a chance of getting back to sleep as sick as I may be! Aswell as that, I’d like to complain about the fact that since Wednesday I’ve spent about 50E on painkillers, cough bottles etc. I still have to see the doctor and more than likely get anti-biotics. [Add more money] I really can’t afford to be spending this with the amount of things I still have to get for college!  Oh well, here’s to you internet universe! I hope I’m better soon!

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So it hasn’t really hit me yet, only got the letter this afternoon and I still can’t believe it but I’ve been accepted to Waterford Institute for Technology’s course “Applied Computing“. This a very good day! :D :D

So heres the subjects for Semester 1:

Semester 1
Computing Essentials
Discrete Maths
Programming Fundamentals
Physics for Computing
The Software Development Cycle
Thinking & Learning

Cannot wait for Induction on Monday! :D :D

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So after being informed by my lovely Mother today that WIT where offering free degrees to people who are unemployed I decided I may aswell test the waters down there and send in an application.
Which lead me to sending in two applications! :D So I have now applied for the BSc in Information Technology and the BSc (Hons) in Applied Computing . Personally I’m hoping to get accepted to the BSc in Applied Computing as that would be more geared towards Game Design than the BSc in Information Technology but either way if I get accepted to one of them I’ll be overjoyed! But I’ve filled in my applications, enveloped them up and put them into the post box, it’s out of my hands now! So fingers crossed! ;)

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