Couple of things

Well, just a few university related 'stuff'

OK, so the hardest course of last semester ended in a similar fashion to the others, good course work, not so good final exam, I did not study at all during the course of the semester, but I did fairly OK in projects and such. What's so special about that so-called 'hard course'? It was the most useful out of the six courses that we had, and it had the most challenging project we have had thus far. We basically did a research proposal, but without actually conducting the research (Imagine creating a poll, preparing everything, such as ways to analyze your findings and all, but without actually giving the poll out to participants and getting actual feedback). Apparently I did a good job on that project, so good that the lecturer is considering using it as an example for this year's students that are doing it, not bad, eh? On another note, I was stupid enough to actually tell the lecturer of that course a few days before the dreaded final that I haven't studied the theoretical part at all, you should have seen the look on her face when she heard that!

Another thing, they liked one of the photographs I took of the university's new building, they liked it so much that they actually used it on the cover page of our first ever newsletter! That was an honour in all honesty, especially since that the particular shot was kind of out of focus and the fact that I took it only a month or so after getting my new SLR, i.e. when I was still rather clueless! To make it even better, we had a 'professional' photographer come to university and take pictures for the new website (Check it out, emiratesacademy.edu), they used several of his shots inside the newsletter, but mine was on the cover page, kind of says that one doesn't have a professional set-up, lights, assistants, 'posers' i.e. models to make shots good... I showed them some more recent pictures I took of the university, I hope they will be used in the new edition :)

And, one last thing (Reminds me to recommend a track by the Signalrunners called "One Last Look"), the whole grading system has undergone a complete review by the new dean, and now we FINALLY have a decent and fair grading scheme. What is even better is that it has been applied for previous years as well, which has made my GPA 0.01 higher than my sister's GPA when she graduated from AUD, it's quite marginal, but I aim to keep it there or try to improve it, which is not an impossible task now, just needs some more dedication and commitment... I like to think of myself as being more 'committed' and having more intent and drive this semester than say the past two semesters, something that was totally lacking... I honestly feel that I have a LOT to prove, I have to prove myself wrong basically... Proving others wrong will follow