Saturday, September 27, 2008

I worked during the dawn until 4:30 p.m. trying to work with PEAR QuickForm for letting a user introduce a IP address and validate it. But I could not do it, and I spent so long of my time trying to make it work, since I have to make a program about subnetting, and I thought of creading it on PHP. But it would take so long of my time, and I do not have time at all now. I have too many things to do for school. So after that I just installed Visual Studio 2005 on my laptop, and I will try to make the program about subnetting on Visual Basic 2005. At 8:00 a.m. I had Systems Production Techniques class, and during the morning. In the afternoon I had Emerging Technologies class and at the end of the class (at like 4:00 p.m.) I had a surprise test. I really did not study for this test, so I was not prepared. But the professor decided to make this test, even when we did a test the last Saturday. So I think I will get 0.00. It is the first zero that I would ever get at the University*, since I began in 2005. So this is a memorable day. Of course I felt sad, but maybe it is a message for me to realize that I must change my habits of study, like stop doing certain things and start doing some other things. My plan of study should improve, even when I already study a lot. Actually from tomorrow I will try to have better and different habits of study because I am not getting the best results at the University right now. These are my grades so far:

Networking
First Period = 9.7
The presentation about Internet2 (40% of the period) = 10
The practical test I had today about creating a domain, users for the domain, ipconfig, ping, TCP/IP (10% of the period) = 10.00
Final test of the first period (50% of the period) = 9.4

Emerging Technologies
First Period = 5.5
The written test with 2 questions (25% of the period) = 5
The written test with 3 questions (25% of the period) = 5
Final written test of the first period (50% of the pediod)=6
Second Period
The written test with 3 questions (25% of the period) = 10
The written test with 3 questions on September 27, 2008 (25% of the period) = 0

Informatics Projects
First Period = 10
The paper about PowerBuilder and Toad(25% of the period)=10
Written lab with 5 questions(25% of the pediod)=10
Final written test of the first period (50% of the pediod)=10

Systems Production Techniques
First Period = 8.325
The paper and presentation about CMDB (50% of the period)=7.15
Final written test of the first period (50% of the pediod)=9.5

By the way, I received this nice message from a person to my email. It is so kind and challenging to receive these words from a person:

Un cordial saludo.
Mira antetodo felicitarte por compartir tus conocimientos a las demas personas por que eso te hace ser una persona diferente pues hoy en dia ese sentido de coperacion y compartir tan valiosa cualidad como es tu conocimiento es verdaderamente de admirar.Sabes soy un chico que hasta ahora empieza en este mundo de la programacion visual basic y bueno queria pedirte ayuda si te es posible con algun otro fuente que tengas de algun programa en visual basic pues creo que me sera de muchisima ayuda para conocer soluciones brillantes como las tuyas y si te es posible enviarme el ejecutable del juego de damas y si lo puedo correr en vb6.por tu ayuda de verdad te quedare agradecido y sera la vida quien te devuelva la ayuda que me puedas hacer ami .mil gracias ingeniero.

*On October 1, 2008, I realized that the grade was 1.7, not 0.00.

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