New year, New classes, New job
Happy Lunar New Year (of the Dog)!
World of Warcraft hosted festivities throughout the worlds with towns and cities decorated with lanterns, and special vendors providing treats such as fireworks and lucky dumplings.
I start my first classes for UBalt on Wednesday. I also signed up for an additional class (Data Structures and Algorithms) to transfer from UMUC. The University System of Maryland has a program where you can cross register between institutions without having to ‘transfer’ credits.
I’ve already had Data Strucutres at Duquesne, however if I take the graduate version of the class (not much difference) I can get it to count toward my programming core requirement for my IDIA degree and possible pre-requisites if I decide to pursue a doctorate. It is an online class so I can work on it whenever I want, however the book was $88 plus I needed to pay extra to have it shipped 2-day. Unfortunatly I could not find a used copy of it anywhere.
So begins the drive to Baltimore once a week.
I also start at my new company, User-Centered Design, Inc., in two weeks. It is a completely different job, working as a consultant on various projects from home and on-site with clients. I am senior interaction architect (IxA) and will be working between the usability engineers (UE) and developers.
The company’s portfolio is primarily government/web based, although they do have product and public-sector experience. They are also starting to get in to some industry research topics such as Usabile Voting, so it should be pretty interesting.
We’re also still looking for an apartment to move to by the end of March. There was a place we looked at in Silver Spring, but at the time of the special price they were running, they didnt have any apartments available. If anyone has any ideas, our pre-requisites include being within walking to distance to the Metro and some dining/shops/stuff-to-do. Oh, and affordable ;P
seele :: Jan.30.2006 :: Academics, General, Work :: No Comments »