I haven't discussed school so much because Iain Googled "Swiffer" a few weeks ago and our blog came up. This means if he found it anyone from school could accidentally stumble across it through a Google search for my school's name, etc.
I've removed the options to let Google list the blog and left off my name from the title, but I'm still paranoid. These kids can hack sites, so you never know.
Anyway, I'm a little over halfway through. The homestretch is in sight. We begin learning Flash in a month, and then it's on to our big Industry Project. Graduation is in February.
I can't wait. Here's what I won't miss:
1. Commuting almost 3 hours every day for a 3 hour class.
2. Our Friday morning "theory" classes that are sans computers and therefore a complete waste of time, so it winds up being 2 hours of standing around our teacher's laptop while he plays around on eBay (or NZ's version: TradeMe), or a 2 hour discussion of databases. It's mind numbing.
3. Sitting 1-2 feet away from the people next to me, so every sigh, every sound, every sniffle, every stupid finger snap, every pen click is felt or heard. (yeah, I know a lot of offices favor this same bullpen environment, but even there you've got bigger desks or a small divider)
4. Having this huge industry project looming over us. They never give us strict guidelines for what this industry project should be, leading all of us to question," So, what can I do for my industry project?" I assume they're vague because they don't want anyone to begin working on it early.
5. The constant threat of group projects, to demonstrate that in the Real World you need to work well together. Yuck. I've been in the workforce for 15 years -- I already know I don't work well with others! Supposedly we have one coming up in October - a two week group assignment. Ugh.
6. The school environment: the gross bathrooms, the dirty student lounge that I refuse to sit in, the gaggle of teenagers in hoodies lurking by the front door with their cigarettes and Gatorade and meat pies that I have to walk through every day. Once in the building, I am often assaulted by the sound of kids leaping down the stairs while yelling to each other. I never thought I would crave the austerity of an office building.
7. The still almost-daily Mac vs PC debates. You'd think there wouldn't be anything left to say, but you'd be wrong.
8. The goofy jokes and incessant giggling that one can expect from a group of recent high-school grads, but gets old fast when you're pushing 37.
9. Not knowing the future, having to find a job, etc. Not having a job!
10. No personal space: we don't get lockers or our own desks or anything. So, I have to lug a big bag to school with water, a cardigan, notebook, books, lunch, make-up, etc. And then lug it home again. You can't leave anything.
11. Because there's nowhere decent in school to eat my lunch, and you can't eat on the bus, I am stuck eating my lunch while waiting for the bus at 10:30am. The thought of eating lunch at lunchtime sounds like a luxury.
12. The naive assumptions about business that the teacher doesn't dispute (this baffles me). For example, one student mentioned that the city paid $300K for a new Auckland City logo. "We should all be designers!!!" he said, "Imagine getting paid $300K for a stupid logo!" Fool, the AGENCY got paid $300K.
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