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Another week over.
This is going surprisingly fast. Come monday I'll actually be doing stuff that involves a deadline - 2 days of one in fact. Given that I did that job once before in 2 days, that should be fine... so long as the Screen Toucher doesn't touch my screen. (Long story, I'll explain at a later date) I'd also like it if he didn't grab my mouse either...
On another note, someone I helped study for CS repeats passed! W00t!
So another thing that struck me recently: A while back I was up in the air about staying in academia for the long term or not. Assuming I get the results to do it, I'm just going for the taught course in DCU when I finish.
Basically, last weekend my parents had some of my mum's family over. There they make a small announcement (not really an announcement but kinda made it final) that they're taking early retirement in 8 years, to live half their time abroad, and half at home. That kinda puts a limit on things. It's no longer a case of "Can I get funding to do a research masters that would probably become a doctorate?" but more "Do I really want to spend those extra four years when those 8 put things in perspective?" So given that this year goes on sun, another goes on college, do I want to spend one year (bringing it to 3) or 4 (bringing it to 6) years within that sort of limit?
In that case, it's the forensics if I get the marks for it. There are other elements, but that put it very much in perspective.
This is going surprisingly fast. Come monday I'll actually be doing stuff that involves a deadline - 2 days of one in fact. Given that I did that job once before in 2 days, that should be fine... so long as the Screen Toucher doesn't touch my screen. (Long story, I'll explain at a later date) I'd also like it if he didn't grab my mouse either...
On another note, someone I helped study for CS repeats passed! W00t!
So another thing that struck me recently: A while back I was up in the air about staying in academia for the long term or not. Assuming I get the results to do it, I'm just going for the taught course in DCU when I finish.
Basically, last weekend my parents had some of my mum's family over. There they make a small announcement (not really an announcement but kinda made it final) that they're taking early retirement in 8 years, to live half their time abroad, and half at home. That kinda puts a limit on things. It's no longer a case of "Can I get funding to do a research masters that would probably become a doctorate?" but more "Do I really want to spend those extra four years when those 8 put things in perspective?" So given that this year goes on sun, another goes on college, do I want to spend one year (bringing it to 3) or 4 (bringing it to 6) years within that sort of limit?
In that case, it's the forensics if I get the marks for it. There are other elements, but that put it very much in perspective.