A Matter of Days

Well, graduation is here. It's been a long time since I posted, but hey, I've been busy! It's been a really crazy semester. However, just minutes ago I finished up my internship. The herd management program that I created was a really rewarding project. I still have several features to implement, but I knew ahead of time that I would likely not get everything done in a mere 216 hours. It's a fairly large application, at least from the perspective of one person creating it as their first major project outside of a classroom setting. I truly look forward to working on much larger scale projects as I begin my career.

As far as that is concerned, I believe the job search is going well. There are several opportunities out there and I have some positive discussions with more than one company. I hope to have something mutually beneficially turn into my first programmer career opportunity soon.

Classes went well this semester. I'm still on track to receive all A's and fulfill my goal of a 4.0 GPA upon graduation. It's been a bit of a whirlwind spending all my free time working on the internship and bouncing back and forth between the PHP, C#, VB, ASP.NET and JavaScript/jQuery languages. There are so many similarities to be found amonst all of them, but yet...not.

In the end now, I'm just so eager to apply my new skills and put all of my effort into a job with a company. I've waited two years for this (actually, much more than that if you count how long I've wanted to be a programmer) and I'm excited to get going. My last class date should be May 10th and then it's on to the working world again!