How I Got To Neumont: Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now
Posted on February 13, 2008 - Filed Under Neumont
Continuing the story from where I left off.
Okay…after writing this, it’s not that interesting, so the short summary.
q1: room mate sucked, arrogant level of confidence kept me at neumont, made friends by having a car.
q2: had own room, reality check, but still confident, moved out of apt at end of quarter.
So after deciding to give Neumont a try, like many students coming here I wasn’t certain if this was what I wanted to. If it was going to be what I expected. Was I going to like Utah, did I want to get away from Chicago as much as I believed I did, among other questions.
There was no way to answer that other then to give it a go here at Neumont. So this is the story of my first couple of quarters. 18, in a new state, and alone.
Most people probably remember their first day, I don’t. I don’t really remember the first few weeks. I remember sitting next to Byung, with Jeff and Ryan behind me. I remember becoming friends with them because I had a car and we all lived at the falls. I remember spending a good deal of time on gfaqs or doing the labs. I was usually 2 assignments ahead as it was a really easy quarter for me. Having learned Java already…well the absolute basics of java, made it easy for me to teach myself c#. TiSD i don’t really remember much of until the project toward the end. I just know that at some point, i was aware of how easy of a time I was having. Thinking maybe this is my calling, maybe this is what I should do.
As for that TiSD project, I remember everyone else stressing over it, or not doing anything for their team. I didn’t find myself in either category. Jermey and myself did the majority of the project. Our algorithim wasn’t that great, our UI wasn’t as nice as the others. However it did everything it was supposed to. Doing that project made me like GDI, something very few people at Neumont will say. Though i’m no artist, I liked working on the animation of simply moving the elevator and the people. Overall I simply enjoyed the project and made me think I was doing the right thing by going to Neumont
As the quarter went on, and more kids stopped coming to class I started get another little pride boost. Knowing that seemingly half the kids in our class were no longer attending. I began to feel I was one of the better programmers in the class, and felt confident in helping others. So with a new found sense of arrogance I stuck with Neumont.
The next quarter was a little harder, with having more classes which meant more homework. The group of kids I was friends with started to grow and our cohort(cohort 9, the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be) began to find a unity with in. I still wasn’t having a terrible time with the concepts being taught, and I began to realize I wasn’t the top kid in the class, but it felt I was top of the second tier, so to speak. With that my confidence remained high, and I stuck through another quarter.
Which i’ll get to the next quarters another time, as they detail another part of the story of Neumont.
One of my biggest worries when coming to Neumont was where was i going to sleep, and who would my room mates be. I got placed at the falls as previously mentioned, which isn’t as nice as Sterling villege, and where a good number of Cohort 9 resigned in. I also got a terrible room mate. He seldom cleaned, never cooked, wasn’t someone I could play games with, wasn’t some to play sports with, and wasn’t even someone I enjoyed talking to all that much. He snored as loud as anyone I’ve ever heard, which would force me into sleeping in living room, while having my laptop playing music louder then I like to have when sleeping. I seldom if ever got a good night sleep. Luckily, my second quarter the 3rd roommate in the place dropped out. As neumont wasn’t the school he was after. Which allowed me to have my own room, the following quarter I moved out. Having to live there also put me very close to leaving Neumont, I didn’t know we could request to move out. I didn’t think, I can’t sleep would have been a good reason.
Well thats what I remember from the first few quarters.
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