Work hard, play hard.

Lets make a productivity list for tomorrow, because the last ones all worked so well…

• Go take photos for my website assignment! I’m gonna take my laptop too, due to the small card capacity. I decided this should be a group activity.
• Write a tutorial on how to add a button to TinyMCE in WordPress.
• Read another chapter of Twilight. Must read this, and the next book before the next film comes out. Granted, I probably have a year, but I’d rather get the entire saga out the way.
• Look through Monday’s class notes, and maybe write a few help sheets. I’ll be working as a classroom assistant, so I should probably be more prepared.
• Wash up. Really, Shane, you have no plates left.
• Get the systems analysis work from Blackboard. I really want to ace this presentation. This is looking to be the only module I might actually fail because of stupid things, like lack of motivation for it.

Busy day tomorrow. Carnage bar crawl is in the night too.

Stupid course is stupid.

I’m actually feeling productive today, and I’m fairly certain I have a multitude of work to do.

I woke up with the intent of creating this database we need for Database Design Concepts. Well, I say need, but it turns out we might not actually have to hand it in. Because I thought it was integral to my learning, I sat through it and slowly knocked up a few tables following the instructions letter by letter.

When it started explaining, in great detail, how to change the freaking font of a label I gave in. Not only was it offending me, but flicking through the book I can’t see anywhere where it’s telling me to hand the finished database in. Even if it did, what would be the point?  You can’t vary from the obnoxious instructions; even if one person created the database and then gave a copy to everyone in the class the person marking it would never know. They’re all identical.

So, I gave in with that. I’m pretty sure there’s more work to be done, so I asked Laura. Apparently we have a Systems Analysis assignment that we’ve not been told about yet.

The final assignment we have is from Computer Tech, to create a website. I’m not sure why I can’t just give him the URL to one of the many websites I’ve designed and coded to prove my work, but meh. I have to create a guide about Leicester for freshers of DMU, which I’m okay with actually. I might even be able to make some money from it. Even if I do feel slightly underestimated.

Why can’t university be as hard as I actually expected? Why do people walk into a degree with zero knowledge of the course? There are people that have blatantly never even used a computer before on my course; wtf? Just make A Level Computing a requirement of the course entry, and teach with that as a foundation. Don’t freaking teach it me again! Grr.

I’d switch to Computer Science if I wasn’t so worried my math would let me down.

Sys. Anal.: Two

In an attempt to get through these as quickly as possible, here’s the second one in one night.

This lecture is about the impact of information, and the new ways it’s become important, on businesses.

Systems Analysis: First lecture

I’ve not done anything at all on Sys. Anal. yet, so I thought I’d do that now.