Hiatus
It’s been a while since I last sat down and wrote something that I didn’t immediately have to hand in to the University. Over the last month, three weeks were spent doing nothing but work and the last week has been completely free to try and recover. One thing this endeavour has taught me is that if you are given six months to do something, it is probably a little bit too large to attempt to do in three weeks.
It has raised an interesting point, however, that leads me to believe it is time for me to leave University. When speaking to my project tutor, he asked why I wasn’t more on top of things; I didn’t have an answer… until I really thought about it. I was not getting paid, the project I was doing was (definitely) not breakthrough, it’s not something I was interested in and it just seemed like a means to an end just to get a grade. The only person I could let down by not doing the work was myself and as such, I lacked the motivation to try and achieve it. Without the pressure of having other people I’d be letting down, I just wasn’t interested in doing anything.
This realisation (where nothing — work wise — I do at University means anything) couldn’t have come at a better time, as I’m hopefully graduating this June. I was wondering whether to extend my degree and do a Masters of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence, however I think I’ll be giving that one a miss.
Job hunting time!
7:31 pm
How come you don’t think you’ll want to do a masters?
5:08 am
Hey zzap!
I guess there are couple of reasons…
I’m much more into the ‘web’ aspects of things than I was when I applied for the Masters. I was interested in the AI lectures back then, however my tastes have changed and it is fairly late to try and apply for a Masters starting in the Autumn.
I’m also not a fan of having whatever I do mean nothing any more. Everyone just does the exact same assignments, trying to get a decent grade. I’d like to think that what I’m doing is useful and not just a waste of time. I guess it’s meant to teach me, to help me learn… but it doesn’t do that. Everything I’ve learnt while I’ve been at University I’ve taught myself. This University teaches Java, so I learnt Python (and can’t code a Hello World of Java).
The only thing that is pushing me to do the masters course is that my girlfriend will still be in that university; so another year hanging around seems like fun.
I’m not completely decided yet, but lacking money and boredom seem like a good incentive to switch what I’m currently doing and find a job.