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I feel kind of like a heel for not updating this frequently and keeping in contact with some of the people I know through here. I only know a few people through LJ, but it seems like everyone I know this way is doing alright, and that's as much as I can ask for. If people feel like it, drop me a line sometime. I'm on yahoo and a few other chat programs, and I've been 'forced' onto Facebook, so I'm 'contactable' again.
I've always been very disorganized and bad at keeping myself and my activities in order. I'm doing alright though... except for the fact that I'm not getting any younger, I've been ok. Things were very rough years ago, especially when I was struggling through my first half of my undergraduate years. Everyone who supported me helped me get through, and I thank you for that!
Hopefully that's enough sappy for now.
As for what I've been talking about; I took a gamble this last term and only took one class for my graduate program. I was doing it so I could look hard for a job, but I ended up finding nothing. Despite that though, I learned a lot and I've been able to line up a number of more promising summer prospects than usual.
The class I took was Game Production, and it's similar to Virtual Worlds I took before, but with some major differences. Instead of each of us working on a project, we are split into groups and work on a major project over the course of a month with both programmers and graphic artists in a different major.
Unfortunately a lot of the group work fell apart and only with the last project did I get to do a lot of cooperative work with other programmers, but overall I learned a fair bit, and now from these two classes I have a pretty big portfolio of games, as well as some websites I made professionally (admittedly I'd like some general software in there as well).
I'm kind of smoothing the rough edges on one of my favorite ones I worked on, and I'll be posting more of them up once I finish wrestling my screen-capture program to cooperate. I'm really happy with them, and it sounds like I might be working with some of the people I know up here to make some more on our own soon.
For the future, I might have a thesis that I might enjoy; something on developing programs for people with disabilities. I know that I and a number of people I know have various disabilities (learning, mental, and other), and I think it might be something engaging to try. I'm still taking classes, but I'm looking for work that will eventually override those, and maybe I'll still complete this graduate program (although not necessarily at NAU), but my priority is job development and finding a home of my own. :)
Please take care everyone, and drop me a line! I miss everyone in Kingston... @_@ I am looking at the possibility of coming up during the winter, but I need to see just who there would be interested and what kind of plans I'll have for actually doing it.
I've always been very disorganized and bad at keeping myself and my activities in order. I'm doing alright though... except for the fact that I'm not getting any younger, I've been ok. Things were very rough years ago, especially when I was struggling through my first half of my undergraduate years. Everyone who supported me helped me get through, and I thank you for that!
Hopefully that's enough sappy for now.
As for what I've been talking about; I took a gamble this last term and only took one class for my graduate program. I was doing it so I could look hard for a job, but I ended up finding nothing. Despite that though, I learned a lot and I've been able to line up a number of more promising summer prospects than usual.
The class I took was Game Production, and it's similar to Virtual Worlds I took before, but with some major differences. Instead of each of us working on a project, we are split into groups and work on a major project over the course of a month with both programmers and graphic artists in a different major.
Unfortunately a lot of the group work fell apart and only with the last project did I get to do a lot of cooperative work with other programmers, but overall I learned a fair bit, and now from these two classes I have a pretty big portfolio of games, as well as some websites I made professionally (admittedly I'd like some general software in there as well).
I'm kind of smoothing the rough edges on one of my favorite ones I worked on, and I'll be posting more of them up once I finish wrestling my screen-capture program to cooperate. I'm really happy with them, and it sounds like I might be working with some of the people I know up here to make some more on our own soon.
For the future, I might have a thesis that I might enjoy; something on developing programs for people with disabilities. I know that I and a number of people I know have various disabilities (learning, mental, and other), and I think it might be something engaging to try. I'm still taking classes, but I'm looking for work that will eventually override those, and maybe I'll still complete this graduate program (although not necessarily at NAU), but my priority is job development and finding a home of my own. :)
Please take care everyone, and drop me a line! I miss everyone in Kingston... @_@ I am looking at the possibility of coming up during the winter, but I need to see just who there would be interested and what kind of plans I'll have for actually doing it.