Uni Marks are in for Semester 2
Forgive me if my literacy skills fall short in this post. After all, I have consumed a bottle of shiraz with another breathing on the counter as the bolognese sauce finishes off. My partner Linden is currently away in Queensland at a family funeral and boys will be boys (thus the vino and loud country music).
University marks came in yesterday and I did OK but you know how it goes when you’ve got a high bar - post mortems. For my Corporate Internship with the Department of Economic Development doing a research paper into the cost benefit to government subsidising long term unemployed and disadvantaged job seekers into work I got a 78% Distinction. Just missed the High Distinction bar by two percent but its not a bad mark and I’ll shuffle it around to be a second year elective anyway as I can pull two High Distinctions up to replace it. The Internship was worth two units (weighted at 25%). For Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, for which I only barely passed the first in-semester exam, half of my in-semester mark, I rebounded with a just scraping in by the skin of my chinny-chin-chin 80% High Distinction. Saved by the Java 2 Micro Edition programming and superb project documentation.
I’d like to thank Emily Jayne and Rose because I know full well I pissed them off by the end of my stay with Labour and Employment at the Department of Economic Development. My perspective on long term unemployment will never be the same as that of government and that’s a fair differentiation that needs no explanation. To be honest without their input and guidance I’d have created the wrong research report because I found it hard to focus on economic models.
The singularly most powerful document I read in that research came this year from the Australian Government Productivity Commission working paper titled Men Not at Work: An Analysis of Men Outside the Labour Force [2.15MB PDF]. Its well worth the long read.
So I have no more exams left at university and only Software Engineering Project A and B to complete as 2 single units without exams for 2008.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:57 am
YAAAY another semester over. Great marks….. sure we are related
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:24 pm
ha apparently so sis… although don’t sell yourself short.
I’m spending the day alone with the doggies watching videos and avoiding the bright sunlight today. Need to power nap for about 12 or so hours tonight.