Jason M. Hanley :: Custom Software Developer

I was kind of hoping this term would be a little lighter and let me focus on things like job searching and perhaps even take a short vacation. Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to happen. I only have 18 hours of actual classes (compared to 30 last term), but I failed to consider the group meetings and other projects I’m involved with.

On top of six classes (four of which have major group projects), I have a major group consulting project, a not-for-profit group project. And of course, I’ve volunteered to be the project leader / coordinator in most of the groups.

In my spare time, I’m captaining an intramural volleyball team, doing a research assistantship, and entering a business plan competition alongside a classmate called Launchpad 50K. For good measure, I’ve thrown in a software consulting contract for a previous customer that I just couldn’t say no to.

Up until recently I’ve been cutting back on non-essentials like eating and sleeping to keep up with the pace, but now I’m starting to get things organized and under control.

So please forgive me if I’m a little slow getting back to you this term. I assure you I will, in time! It just might not be until mid-February, when we have the Reading Week break…

It’s that time again.. My first class of the new term is tonight, and I can’t help but feeling that this semester is going to be very different than the previous one. Last term I had classes from 8:30 – 4:00 every day. This term, most of my classes are in the afternoon and evening. This seems to fit better with my natural sleep cycle My brain doesn’t tend to function very well before 10:00am.

Also, now that I’ve finished the eight core classes, I was able to focus in and choose six courses that are of great interest to me – two entrepreneurial, two marketing and two communications classes. On top of everything I learned last term, I think these will go a long way towards my long-term goal of working in upper management at a technology firm.