So now pretty much all the classes are over. All we have left is the Thesis. Thats pretty much 2 1/2 months to write a small book. I’m partnered with a pretty descent guy. On the outside Jack is the most perverted, drunken, unorganized guy you’ll ever meet, but he knows his major pretty well. I wanted to do the thesis on something that I could submit to journal or conference but due to administrative differences I was not allowed to do so. So I’m stuck with RFID’s impact in Supply Chain Management focusing on Warehouse Management Systems and Real Time Locater Systems. After doing some light research it’s not hard to find some flaws within these systems but it will be interesting to talk to some companies and get a better look.
On a different note, I’ve noticed how the Swedes way of learning works. It’s considerably different then back in the states and way better then the shame that is France. One of the advisers for our thesis group is a professor from Western by the name of Solymossy. I’ll get back to him, but for the most part he put it pretty well. He had this illustration, in the US we ask for the knowledge, in Sweden they don’t give us the knowledge they teach you how to ask the right questions. It’s almost like the example give a man a fish feed him for a day or teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. I have to say I’m not exactly fond of it, but it does make me look at education a bit differently and I think I’ll be able to do better when I get back to the states. As for the guy from Western, I’m not exactly fond of him either. He seems like a smart guy, and I think he’ll give us some structure to our thesis work, but I think he’s a bit too arrogant to be representing us over here. Arrogant may not be the right word, but it just seems like he’s trying overly hard to prove to everyone over here that he’s “American”. I dunno, maybe I’m just burned out or I have some personality issues with him. It’s getting harder to analyze how I’m feeling and figuring out the causes. Things aren’t as simple as opening up gdb and finding out what the value is in a certain part of memory. I know one thing for sure, I’m still pissed as hell from the grades that I got back from France. Imagine paying $7K+ for a semester of classes, not only having to fight to find out when and where classes are but also finding out they are total and complete bullshit … that rubs me the wrong way. Then after all of that, the three classes you actually gave a considerable effort on, you fail … horribly. And I’m a descent student. No, I’m not perfect, I failed accounting and that incredibly hard com systems class and came close on design geometry … but the rest of my entire academic career is solid. Four months and a ton of cash later all F’s yea, it takes a lot of Halo 3 to get over that one. As I digress, I’m still somewhat optimistic. I have a awesome summer internship to look forward to an another year and $30K of school until my academic career comes to an end.