I'll still be using the time I have at work to post on here probably, which is maximum of 3 times a week. So anyways, let's see if I can recap my semester here at TWU so far...
I'm taking 3 classes, working at 2 jobs, and have 1 girlfriend. That's pretty much the extremely short version which actually describes how I spend most of my time very well. Let's explore each item one by one
Digital Game Development
This is my favourite class. The class consists of a team of students who are pursuing different degrees (art, music, business, computer science, communications) all working on a single project to develop a computer game.
I am the "Technical Project Manager" for this project. My job is to compile and maintain the schedule for the entire project (including each individual task) and making sure everybody completes their tasks on time. It takes a lot of communication with everybody and dedication to the project, both which I love and thrive at doing. The "Technical" part of my title is supposed to mean that I am especially managing the software developers workload, but I suspect I'll be doing an equal amount of project management across the board.
Music Theory
This class is quite self explanatory. I took on a music minor as a part of my hopeful preparation for graduate studies relating to music and computers. This entails learning the theory of music. I have always engaged in music from an aural and experiential level, never really tackling any theory aside from my encounters during piano lessons from my Mom.The method of this course is to introduce the student to the rules of music followed by musicians approximately 250 years ago. The community of musicians never really felt the need for rules or theory until the enlightenment age came along with its expectation of rationality from all things claiming to be worthy pursuits. Thus people like Rameau decided to systematize and analyze music in a whole new way...
The existence of music theory is not very negotiable. Thus actually the method of taking students back 250 years is a favour because the theory of music today is way too complex and diverse for any student of music to take as a starting point. It's nice to work with music which is very restrained in its taste... learning more modern music will make more sense once we get to it. Otherwise it's kind of like learning about democracy without knowing about monarchy or better yet about anarchy without learning about government.
Integral Calculus
If you haven't figured out already, I despise mathematics on many levels. However for some odd reason I have picked the degree of Computing Science which mandates the successful completion of over 3 mathematics courses. I protest to their relevance to my pursuit of technology, but who knows, it might prove useful one day.In the mean time I struggle with motivating myself to do mathematics assignments which I struggle with
- Accomplishing well
- Finding a practical reason for it which is relevant to me
My professor though is a very intelligent man who clearly enjoys mathematics which amuses me very much.
Spartan Athletics Event Staff
The Spartans are the University's athletes. The event staff is me. I've moved up since being hired in my first year, tearing tickets and maybe selling them. Since then I've pretty much done every job available, which is nice because I have the experience to be helpful in almost any situation.
The thing I enjoy the most right now though is announcing. I've started to announce Volleyball and Basketball games. I do like all the jobs which involve watching the game, but I like this one the best because you actually get involved with the game and athletes on a more personal level. Even though you don't interact with them per se, you learn their names and describe plays to the audience.
Main Computer Lab Teaching Assistant
This is where I'm at right now. Right by the white board. Basically all I do is sit here at the computer and look smart. People may ask me questions if the have problems now and then, just to test if I'm actually as smart as I look. For the most part though, it's a very quiet job, especially compared to event staff. Even though it's not as exciting, you can't turn down getting paid for just sitting at the computer, and maybe answering questions and pushing chairs in now and then.
Also as a part of this job I get paid to mark for a programming course. Last semester I marked for "Intro to Programming: Modula-2". This semester I will be marking "Intermediate Programming: Java". It's a good way to keep on top of my programming knowledge and maybe even add to it. I love the concept of getting paid to learn.
Tamara
She's the girlfriend, in case you couldn't figure that out. We've been dating since April 2007. This is the first relationship I've had where God has been such a big part of it. He has definitely been leading us and guiding us as we get to know each other, and I think I have a pretty good idea of where he is taking us. Otherwise I wouldn't be dating her.
Spartan Athletics Event Staff
The Spartans are the University's athletes. The event staff is me. I've moved up since being hired in my first year, tearing tickets and maybe selling them. Since then I've pretty much done every job available, which is nice because I have the experience to be helpful in almost any situation.The thing I enjoy the most right now though is announcing. I've started to announce Volleyball and Basketball games. I do like all the jobs which involve watching the game, but I like this one the best because you actually get involved with the game and athletes on a more personal level. Even though you don't interact with them per se, you learn their names and describe plays to the audience.
Main Computer Lab Teaching Assistant
This is where I'm at right now. Right by the white board. Basically all I do is sit here at the computer and look smart. People may ask me questions if the have problems now and then, just to test if I'm actually as smart as I look. For the most part though, it's a very quiet job, especially compared to event staff. Even though it's not as exciting, you can't turn down getting paid for just sitting at the computer, and maybe answering questions and pushing chairs in now and then.Also as a part of this job I get paid to mark for a programming course. Last semester I marked for "Intro to Programming: Modula-2". This semester I will be marking "Intermediate Programming: Java". It's a good way to keep on top of my programming knowledge and maybe even add to it. I love the concept of getting paid to learn.
Tamara
She's the girlfriend, in case you couldn't figure that out. We've been dating since April 2007. This is the first relationship I've had where God has been such a big part of it. He has definitely been leading us and guiding us as we get to know each other, and I think I have a pretty good idea of where he is taking us. Otherwise I wouldn't be dating her.We spend almost every morning together; I go over to her place and we have breakfast, and share a time with God if we can. We spend almost every evening together too by just enjoying each other and praying at the end. If you pray then you can pray that God will continually be the guide and master of our relationship.
Oh yeah, about the title of this blog. "The Struggle for Balance".... for one I didn't feel like writing a title for my blog in the first place because it's merely a medium for me to write about my life so others can get a glimpse of it. I began to think though.... "balance" is something I've found to recur as a theme in my life. By theme I mean it seems like nobody has balance and it really frustrates me. It's just something I see as being very important. So I figured I could call my life a struggle for balance, be it for myself or for those around me.
Oh yeah, about the title of this blog. "The Struggle for Balance".... for one I didn't feel like writing a title for my blog in the first place because it's merely a medium for me to write about my life so others can get a glimpse of it. I began to think though.... "balance" is something I've found to recur as a theme in my life. By theme I mean it seems like nobody has balance and it really frustrates me. It's just something I see as being very important. So I figured I could call my life a struggle for balance, be it for myself or for those around me.
8 comments:
Wow David! Good start. Mum & I liked your humour and I think you present yourself very well.
Keep bloggin, Loving Tamara and pursuing God
Dad
Yay!
Very nicely written. =)
...and since I know you'll want to know, I noticed only 2 typos ;)
(one is "if" instead of "is" and I can't remember the other one right now...it's near the same spot though)
I liked your comment about Dr. Atkins too, sums him quite well I think. Don't get discouraged about math though, you're starting well, even though you don't feel like it. I'm really amazed and proud of you. Last semester you'd ask for help on almost every single question, but this semester you've been doing well going through a lot of them by yourself. Good work! =) Though, I always love to help you out if I can of course.
Haha, wow this turned into a letter. Reminds me of facebook posts/emails that would get long-winded. Well, thanks for sharing this with me too! =)
PS: Why THAT picture of me? =P =)
commenting to let you know i signed up to view. . will the blog email me when you post something new or am i going to have to manually check?
hi honey....mom here. wow, you have confidence in my japanese ability to post me the link through the japanese site. I think that's what it was. Well, you've heard through dad and our chat what i think of your blog. Very well written. And I agree with Tamara about the typos!!! :) So, yeah, keep up the good work in math. And your writing is really good!!!! :) PS I tried to sign up for atom posts because I thought they would send me automatic notice of your posts but it said I couldn't.
hi, me again. have you let chris mcC see this? he'd love to hear how and what you're doing. And how about Judy Oman? She'd love to hear from you, too!
yes I invited Chris McC. if you put davidkazuhiro.blogspot.com into your google reader it should load the posts in automatically.
actually nevermind the google reader automaticness. Because I have it set to private, it won't work. I have to make it public for the rss feed to work
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