Installing Visual Studio 2008

I have installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional on both my desktop as well as on my laptop. I am preparing for my C# class that will begin on Monday. I find myself being amazed at the simplicity of such a massive application. On my desktop it is about 4.5GB installed, while on my laptop […]

Realizing the Obvious

In several days I will start my first ceramics class without Tweedy. I have grown quite attached to Tweedy’s ways of doing things, and the ways of the UNCC ceramics studio.  I  will be in a new studio and under a new instructor. I am terrified.

Academic Nervousness

Classes start in under a week, so now I’m getting like all nervous and stuff. Usually I’m very calm this time of the year, I am so planned and everything it just seems like it should be fine and smooth. I suppose my biggest problem this semester is I changed schedules around so much that […]

ART390 transferred as ART264

Everything worked out this morning. The registrar received the new information this morning and was able to correctly transfer UNC’s ART390 (Special Topics Studio: Digital Photography) as NCCCS’s ART264 (Digital Photo I). I am quite relieved that the credit has transferred properly now.

Transfer Not Successful

Yesterday in the mail I received a little note from the registrar’s office at Gaston College. The note stated that the credit from UNC Chapel Hill could not be transferred because there was no equivalent course in the Gaston College catalog, even though I was assured by my dean that the course would transfer without […]

Postal Irony

Today both the textbook and the notice of cancellation for "Advanced C++" arrived at the same time via USPS. Quite brilliant.

Alternative Advanced C++’s

Even though CPCC has canceled their Advanced C++ course, some other institutions are offering web-based Advanced C++ courses. Lenoir Community College and Pitt Community College are the two primary schools offering the course. Unfortunately, it is way too late in the registration period for me to feel motivated enough to work with the administrative hurdles […]

C# Programming

CSC153, C# Programming has now taken the place of Advanced C++ on my schedule for Fall. It is a new language for me, and it will give me something to work with in Visual Studio (I’ve always had it, just never really used it). I worry that the course will be just another over-simplified "welcome […]

Advanced C++ Dropped

Upon checking my course records this morning I found out that CSC234, Advanced C++ has been dropped from the schedule of classes at CPCC. After getting myself so excited about it, I am a little sad that it isn’t an option. I am now weighing my options… I could potentially take a C# course. No […]