Semester Two: The end is nigh

I had my first week of classes this past week. The timetable is quite agreeable, 4 hours on a Wednesday and 5 hours on a Friday which leaves a lot of time for development of my major project.

I’ve got the project underway. It’s a video and audio sharing website allowing users to share their own guided tours of a place or city for others to download to an iPod and use when travelling. Obviously, at this stage it’s at the development stage but the domain is active if you want to be kept up to date:

http://www.walkwithme.tv/

The other good news is that part of the module requirement is to set up our own portfolio site, and hosting on the university’s pathetic IIS server was not recommended so in a matter of weeks this site will have a proper facelift, something I’ve been promising for a long time.

It scares me a little to think that in another 13 weeks my 4 years of university will be at an end and my proper working life will begin. I’ve been thinking a lot about my next move, both metaphorically and physically. It seems that every day, Northern Ireland’s economic forecast gets more and more miserable with the latest expecting unemployment to double within the year and Britain as a whole to suffer the worst out of all the EU countries. “Worst economic crisis since WWII”, they say. Flip, and I thought Thatcher’s day was bad.

I’ve got a lot of options – freelancing, moving elsewhere in search of a good job, a Masters, PhD (a possibility, but not desirable), Tesco… difficult to know.

We’ll see how the degree goes first, I suppose.

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