Pkchukiss - Reality Wine

Well, the actual results came out 3 days before the end of last month, but I didn’t have the time to write about them.

During the semester, I relaxed a bit on paying attention during Java lessons, because the lecturer was focusing on the basics of programming. After my background in Visual Basic, as well as PHP and Perl, the semantics of Java was relatively smooth sailing. So, during class, I tried to read up on more advanced programming topics, like multi-threaded programming, inheritance and poly-morphism. There’s a lot of things I don’t know, and it kept me a happy camper during lesson time.

I couldn’t do the same for the network fundamentals class though: there are many new terms to learn, like network devices, connections, and theories of network design, as well as the humbling experience that the Internet evolved from a small network in Arpanet into the bludgeoning monster that keeps growing exponentially every second. Kind of like Katamari Damacy without all that cute animation. It gets a bit spooky thinking that the only things that form this creature are switches, routers, and many million kilometres of cabling. I wonder how it feels like to have all those cable dumped in Singapore?

Anyway, I am quite happy with the results this semester, even though I did not achieve the ludicrous 4.0 GPA. It is a really hard feat to manage, especially when I plunged in and took the Introduction to Web Graphic Design module as my elective. This is one really subjective module. Some of my classmates got a B+, which is obviously better than the B I got, but I’m not complaining. My strength lies in coding stuff up, and the odds are I’ll go into Computer Science, so the B isn’t too big a blip on the radar. After all, we’re talking about the person labelled “The Art Terrorist” by his art teacher back in secondary school! Rather, my biggest worry was for my mathematics. It was 4 whole years since I touched anything beyond +-x÷ on a calculator, and I didn’t traditionally score well for my secondary school and junior college math, so I was exhilarated that I got an A this time round!

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