Prior Plan­ning Pre­vents Poor Per­for­mance (and makes it easy to put together a great sched­ule for your last semes­ter of col­lege). Here’s the graph­i­cal layout:

 

iCal view of my classes and prospective teaching schedule

iCal view of my classes and prospec­tive teach­ing schedule

I had to take either an A&H or S&H along with two infor­mat­ics elec­tives to grad­u­ate, but I know I’ll be required to take 12 credit hours for cer­tain grants and loans. A&H is Arts and Human­i­ties and S&H is Social and His­tor­i­cal Stud­ies. Most of the classes I’ve taken are Nat­ural and Math­e­mat­i­cal Sci­ences: N & M. I did a lot of search­ing for the last 3 hours to reach the 12 hour mark required for cer­tain grants and loans.

AMST-A100 is called “What is Amer­ica?” and talks about cit­i­zen­ship, national iden­tity, and the social con­tract across the hemi­sphere (my A&H requirement).

FINA-D210 is called “Dig­i­tal Art: Sur­vey & Prac­tice” and empha­sizes learn­ing to use dig­i­tal media to pro­duce orig­i­nal, cre­ative art work.

INFO-I400 is a top­ics course on entre­pre­neur­ship in Infor­mat­ics and will offer stu­dents the change to hear directly from numer­ous Indi­ana soft­ware executives.

INFO-I427 is called “Search Infor­mat­ics” and cov­ers tech­niques and tools to auto­mat­i­cally crawl, parse, index, store, and search Web information.

Tues­days I’ll hope­fully be teach­ing two lab sec­tions of CSCI-A216 again which is Dig­i­tal Mul­ti­me­dia Con­cepts and Technologies.

Fri­days are for me — boat­ing, golf, road trips, and most likely sleeping!

I’m pretty excited for next semes­ter, but just half way over with the cur­rent one. Bet­ter get on top of things so I don’t have to ruin my awe­some sched­ule. Moti­va­tion! My XML file cat­a­loging all the courses I’ve taken is updated, but I still have no idea how I want to visu­al­ize it…