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Cartographer? Do you work with Archaeologist? -zofro's journal on GeoSpat Sci
zofromuxo:
SWOTVAC aka Laze around and Panic week
Yeah..... i'm screwed? Who knows. But i'm at peace I guess due to this: "Half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at any given moment. Way more than half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it."
I need to memories this, so I stop worrying about grades so much!
Either way, enjoy your exams and this lackluster entry.
White was going have to come soon or later!
zofromuxo:
*Shrugs shoulders* 01/09/18
Its been a while like 3 months while. I can see a lot has changed on this site since I've last been on like the retirement of different mods and promotion of new ones.
I've personally kept myself quite busy during my hiatus from posting through applying to job ads and getting rejected, changing programs, organizing events to recently volunteering at a conference that just ended yesterday.
I thought I check in and post, I'm pretty certain that people's interest in this journal is dead, but "you don't know, what you don't know"!
Uni Stuff
My courses are hard... like really hard... no seriously hard..
I can't actually believe how difficult and tedious it is to work with aerial photography and even satellite imagery (Remote Sensing). So much goes into it! *Mindblown*
I'm also seeing the complexity behind a lot of the 'spatial analysis' and noticing how my terrible maths skills are coming to haunt me! Why do we do Quadtree encoding? It is so confusing.. >:(. It will all be worth it in the end i'm sure since others have done this course and survived! Its like VCE again, in the moment feels hard, looking back you realize you blew it out of proportion.
The different thing for me is the change in program and courses I do now. I'm still doing Geospatial Science, but differently. Its like that "same same, but different" meme from The Interview. I can't write more about it since I don't know all the differences between my current and previous program! ::)
Out of Uni Stuff
Applying for jobs is hard! I feel like its pointless as all the jobs in my field are catered to university graduates or final year students and that applying for these is a waste of my time.
But I'm just hoping that maybe, just maybe they'll hire me. I expect they won't, but I really would like work experience in my field before I graduate and get paid.
I do have some unpaid work avenues I'm exploring, but I'm prioritizing paid work applications first even if I have a lower success rate because being paid for work is important.
Joseph41:
^Nice to hear from you!
The jobs you're applying for - are they sort of like internships?
zofromuxo:
--- Quote from: Joseph41 on September 04, 2018, 12:15:38 pm ---^Nice to hear from you!
The jobs you're applying for - are they sort of like internships?
--- End quote ---
Yes they are internship programs.
Fingers cross they hire me :).
As you can tell I've broken my promise, sorry.... but then again we should be used to that... I mean promises and politics, name a more iconic duo.
I have been bombarded with assignments due in my final week and then some during SWOT VAC. So much fun and much wow!!!
Job applications and dealing with numerous rejections have kept me occupied as well.
But I promise, not I pinky swear a 'proper, full, reflection, etc' entry will be made after my one and only exam (my only saviour in this situation).
Until then you can keep thinking i'm dead or left ATARNotes for good, when in reality, life happened :/
zofromuxo:
"Can't smile without you" 06/01/19
Its been a while. I know I have said this for the last few posts, but i'm truly sorry I haven't updated but I had to take a break.
My life had a lot of drastic changes like changing my program, doing a research placement, finding work, doing volunteering, interviewing people, reading my many books and recovering from burnout.
I will admit not coming back here to update this journal was a weight off my shoulder, but I did feel guilty not helping people when I got an email alert about a new thread being made on certain board with a topic I could help with.
As for 2019, I'm going to be consistently more active on this site because I owe this site a lot for helping me out when I was in high school.
So this is my plan for AN in 2019, what are yours?
The title is a song I heard when I was rewatching Hellboy: The Golden Army. I recommend you give it a listen
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