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Archives for 1993

Studying – International Business, Trade, and Tax Law

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This month I am studying “International Business, Trade, and Tax Law”

6 months part-time correspondence course. I have read over the course work, the reading list and the homework requirements. The course work estimates that you should plan on putting in four or five hours per week. Haha! Yeah, right.

Update: Got through the 1st month and 2nd month of coursework. Had to send an email and an actual physical letter on the 20th of the month asking for the next block of coursework & reading material to ensure I don’t run out.

Read – On the Way Home

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Today I finished reading “On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894 ” by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Read – Effective C++

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Today I finished reading “Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs” by Scott Meyers

Studying – BSc Computer Science

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This month I am studying “BSc Computer Science”

This is the 22nd month of the 22 month sandwich course, full-time, in-person Bachelor’s at University of Glamorgan.

Final count of graduating class: 12 students. More than 60 students enrolled, several transitioned off the two year intensive into the second year of the regular four year degree.

It has been a lot of fun. Stress at times, studying full-time and working several contracts, selling off a small business and launching a new small-business. A lot has gone on in these past two years.

If you had asked me two years ago what changes would occur or whether I would graduate, I don’t think I could have even predicted half of the stuff.

I am only the second person, out of all my siblings, to graduate college. To even attend college.

I was a school dropout. Remedial everything. I am the epitome of the dumb kid that everybody wrote off.

I just completed a four year sandwich degree in two years with Honours.

I don’t think anybody ever thought that I would be here today.

I cannot say “I am proud of what I did” because I don’t think I did anything special. I just put in the time and did the work that was in front of me.

My Dad has said he is very proud of me. And my Mum too.

And I think that makes me happier than actually graduating.

I want my parents to be proud of me. I want them to know that even if I am not the smartest child, and as dumb as a box of rocks, I was able to achieve at least a little something.

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