GoneWacko’s Blog

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Yes, I am finally 18 years old. I finally get to drive a car (once I get a driver’s license of course) and I finally get to cash the cheque that says “Don’t smoke until you’re 18 and you get a crapload of money”.

Unfortunately my dad is currently in Atlanta and won’t be coming back until Friday, after which my parents are going to a hotel for the weekend. So a celebration with the entire family (if there will be one at all) won’t be happening until next week.

However, I shall be having a bit of a party next Sunday, with some friends. Just having a few drinks, and some friends shall be bringing along their PCs and/or laptops, so that we can play a game or two. So that’ll be fun (I hope).

Not much else to say except for the fact that you are hereby invited to start congratulating me in the comments.
Also, feel free to send me money (thinking about it, I didn’t even get a SINGLE card in the mail today!)

Queue the fat lady

Wooo, first schoolyear’s over

After a bit of uncertainty I have now officially finished my foundation course. I was already assured of passing this year some months ago when I reached my 37,5 credits of the total 60.

I ended up getting a 90 for Product Quality (which is the highest you can get - the school uses a weird system of 10/40/70/90, where 10 and 40 are ‘insufficient’) and a 70 ‘with repairs’ for Network Infrastructure.

The ‘with repairs’ meant that I had to come to school next Wednesday to repair the portfolio, a.k.a. fix something. Because Bram, a friend of mine, is celebrating his birthday next Wednesday we both weren’t in the mood to go to school for repairs. Hence we asked if we could hear the teacher’s ‘concerns’ over the phone instead.
He replied with “Can you come on Thursday?”, which was obviously not an answer to anything we had asked him. So I replied with “What do repairs mean (in my case)?”. To which he suddenly replied that he just had a comment that one of my assignments was documented with too much detail, which would not have been necessary, and that I didn’t have to repair anything after all.

What the heck

Still, that doesn’t explain why the guy I worked with got a 90 and I got a 70 with repairs

Oh well, my “p” (propedeuse, or foundation course) is all mine, so I’m happy.

Schoolyear’s over

Well, that’s the end of the schoolyear coming up soon.
Yesterday (Friday, 9th of June) I handed in my last portfolios. Next Monday I’ll hear what’ll happen: Pass, Doubt or Fail.

In the case of doubt, the assessors are either uncertain whether the portfolio (and thus my knowledge of the subjects) is sufficient, or it if they’re uncertain which grade to give me. In such a case, I will have to come to assessments this Tuesday - which are sort of oral exams.

I’m not very certain about either subject, because they’re not my best subjects, but also because the teachers might be aiming too highly. Hence my expectance of two Doubts. Still, I’ve passed the year in none the less, so that’s nice.

Starting next year I’ll only have the subjects I chose. One subject per half year:

• Create a game
• Object Oriented Programming
• Create an information system (database related programming)

But first the assessments and then 8 (or more) weeks of vacation
Plenty of time to work on software and, most importantly, get the hosting company running properly. We went to the Chamber of Commerce the other day to get some information about starting a company. Got some interesting information about tax cuts and subsidies as well (two of the four of us are blind), so that’ll be great.