Well, as the title suggests University has started again, last Monday on the 22nd of September to be precise. I have been spending my past year - my placement year - working at a small web development firm as a programmer. After being away from university for a year it's easy to forgot what it feels like to be there. What I mean by "feels like" is how much I dislike the chaotic little structured feeling I get when attending university coupled up with a large disinterest for anything related to computers. Since I'm doing a computing degree I hear about computers a lot, I think by the first year I had heard enough about them. I already had a good knowledge of computers and my thirst for more had been quenched after a short while. I know class myself as knowing mostly everything I wish to know about computers... that's not to say I know everything about computers of course, but I know as much as I care too.
My university has done a wonderful job of taking what was once a fascinating hobby to me and turning it into a chore. I have little time for computers these days, I don't like tinkering with them anymore and for that reason I switched from Linux to a Mac, using Linux now only on an occasional basis. I feel my interest has waned with the more knowledge I have gained and now I'm hardly enjoying studying the subject anymore. One subject I am enjoying however is Japanese. I have started on the second year of my Japanese class and I'm finding it fascinating. Obviously I have a huge thirst for knowledge regarding this subject as at the moment I know very little and so I have much motivation to focus on this subject.
Anyway to reiterate above I'm bored of university. I quite enjoyed my year out working and would prefer to be back there. It was good to have the structure of proper working hours and I enjoyed working with the people at my work place.
Aha, a letter has just arrived as I type dear reader! My passport has commeth after a long wait. No longer am I shackled down to English soil. I have plans for this passport which I hope to divulge at a later date. Anyway, I think I have written enough for now as I have many many things I could write about; a lot happens in a year it would seem.
