The new semester is right around the corner. I received an A in each class again last semester. That means I've got a full 4.0 going into my last semester. My goal is to hold that GPA until I graduate in May. I do not think that achievement will come easily, but I will do my best to earn it.
The winter break is rapidly coming to a close. This week is finding me spending a lot of time on my internship. I am creating a software program for my brother-in-law's farm. The program will track information for animals including their pedigree. A family tree, so to speak, will also be created for the animals. Based on their information, which includes monthly milk testing results, a variety of reports will be created. I've begun the planning stages by meeting with my brother-in-law and drafting up some Use Case diagrams and other planning documents. I plan to meet with him later this week to gather more planning information. I look forward to getting into the other stages including user interface and coding. Of course, I still need to do more research regarding if I will be doing the project in PHP using MySQL or in .NET and another database structure. As of now, I'm guessing it will be in PHP since I can easily obtain the tools once I'm no longer a student should I want to edit and/or maintain the application.
This brings up another goal. For the internship I need to put in at least 216 hours. I hope to have that accomplished a couple of weeks before the end of the semester. Since the work is for a member of the family, I can put in as much time as I need to when I need to. Hopefully this allows me to get the work done early. I plan to also support and/or add to the program after the internship is over also.
Everything else for the coming semester is nearly in order, including books, etc. I'm looking forward to learning more things. But I am also very anxious to apply what I have learned to real world projects, such as the one for my internship. I also have had projects on the backburner for personal use and cannot wait to get to those after graduation.
