I found out today that I actually have one more class to take at ITT-Tech before I can graduate.  Its call Capstone.  I’m not fully sure what the class is about.  Turns out I didn’t have it this quarter because they were not offering it.  I was originally scheduled to graduate in March but I guess I now wont.

Since I have to go to school for another 3 months for that 1 single class I will not graduate until June.  I am kind of disappointed but oh well.  Nothing I can do about it.

As of right now, if I only get my Associates I am now half way through.  I was advised to try to get a job by my school after I get that and hopefully whoever I get a job with will send me back, and pay for, my Bachelors.   Either way I want to get my Bachelors, unless I get a really good job right out of school and figure it a waste of time and money.

So far I am really liking ITT-Tech.  They have great teachers, a great facility, and I actually get to apply what I learn in labs.  This is a big step over Ivy Tech that I started at in 2005 which had almost no hands on stuff.   I know I get a lot of people landing on my site searching about ITT-Tech that are considering going there and I must say I recommend them.  I know a lot of bad stuff is said about ITT-Tech on the Internet but I haven’t found any of it to be true really.

Well, hopefully a year from now I’ll be posting about my graduation

Till next time…

(August 20th – December 2nd)

Wednesday – 6:00 to 10:24pm

Thursday – 6:00 to 10:24pm

Friday -  6:00 to 9:24 pm

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Monday 6:00 pm – 9:24 pm

Tuesday 6:00 pm – 10:20 pm

Friday 6:00 pm – 10:20 pm

Problem Solving – Monday 6-9:30pm

Introduction to Personal Computers – Thursday 6-10:20pm

Strategies for the Technical Professional – Friday 6-9:30pm

This is probably going to be the actual schedule. Classes start on March 12th.

Today, well yesterday, I was officially accepted at ITT Technical Institute in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I will start classes there on March 12th. Well, that is when the semester starts, I don’t have a schedule yet, so my first class may not be on that exact date.

I will have three classes a week/semester that are four hours long each and worth 4 credit hours. I’m going for an Associates in Networking and should be done by March 2009, I hope .

As of right now everything is already set and done except my schedule. I have already passed an entrance exam in which they told me I did very well. Scored 21 (of 26) on the test and only needed 13 out of. Financial aid and everything has also been setup. They are even going to help me find another job to get me out of Taco Bell. That would great if they could find me a nice good paying job, or at least something better than Taco Bell.

Well, wish me luck!!! Oh, and I promise it wont be long till my next entry.

I finished my first year of college on May 9th. This means I only have 1 more year till my associates degree (I hope). I will, most likely, end up at another college next fall or whenever I finish my two year degree.

The job hunt is on again, and if you read my past blog entries you will see this is not an easy task for me. I’ve already applied at a few places but it appears I will have to go out again and apply. If you want to see just how bad my luck has been, search ‘job’ on the side search bar.

As for the Cubs, well, nevermind. I do not wish to go there.

I’ve started playing a game online, and it isn’t checkers!!! I’ve recently started playing and becoming addicted to a game called America’s Army. You can read a post about that a few back.

Other than that, not much happened in may.

My sister had her last day of school on tuesday this week and will graduate this friday. That will leave just my brother, who will be a senior next year, in school.

That should do the May Recap for 2006. I will most likely post on my site stats later today. I would now, but they haven’t been generated yet.

Happy June everyone, and try not to burn up in the summer heat.

-Jeremy Jefferson

FINALLY!!!

I will not be going to classes in the summer… So no more school until fall. As for right now, I am looking for a job.

The test went okay, but there was one page I just blanked on. I don’t really want to talk about it that much (trying to get school out of my mind) so I’ll leave it at that.

I’ll be so glad when this coming week is over.

Everyone knows doing school work at home is just not good for the brain. Although, even if you do take the chance of killing brain cells, you also take the chance of breaking a leg, foot, toe, arm, and so on. Well, I almost broke a toe, and maybe my foot and arm, doing school work the other day.

I laid my school folder on the floor next to my chair and got up to get a drink because my school work was dehydrating me. Well, when I got up I stepped on the folder and slide about three feet, toe went under dresser and almost broke. The toe started bleeding. I landed on my arm, which started hurting about 5 hours later at, you guessed it, school. I’m actually surprised I didn’t break anything.

Had to take Advil to aleave my pain in my arm. Toe still hurts.

Well, I’ll leave it at that.

-Jeremy Jefferson

That’s all I have to say, just felt like making an entry.

Oh, and by the way, my Pell Grant paid that $400+ for the books so it doesn’t really bother me. I’ve still made a profit of $86 which I guess is better than nothing. The school will be sending me a check for around $600 within the next few weeks, so I guess it’s all good.

In January I started my last full month in high school. It was a very long month, obviously, waiting to reach the end of my high school days. Not that I didn’t enjoy high school, but I was very much looking forward to no school responsibilities for a while.

In February I finished high school, graduating three months early. My mom landed a job as Post Master at our local Post Office which she had worked as a PMR (Post Master Relief) for over a decade. This was a very exciting thing for her.

Feb. 22nd marked the one year point of me being an active user of an IRC network called DynastyNet (irc.dynastynet.net).

In March we, finally, upgraded our ISP from dialup to DSL.

In April I changed the name of my programming group from Karma Productions to JWJKP. JWJ stands for my initials, Jeremy Wayne Jefferson, and the KP stands for Karma Productions.

In May I started my first official website which ran on a local computer of mine. The server was slow, unknown, and really not even used.

June was one of the biggest months in detail. I attended my high School Commencement (Graduation) even though I’d been done with High School since February. On June 2nd I registered the domain JWJKP.com. I also had my first job in June.

My job was a temp job which lasted three days in Iowa. Yes, I live in Indiana. I went with my dad to Iowa who had to supervise the checking of bottles from his Plant. I used the money from this job to purchase a laptop for college which I started in August.

July 7th I purchased a hosting plan from DynastyNet, the IRC network I chat on. My site JWJKP.com moved onto this hosting plan which offered a much faster connection.

August I started college. This was a somewhat scary thing, yet very exciting at the same time. I quickly fell in love with college and really, I can’t believe I’m saying this, enjoyed getting an education.

September was my first full month of college, which went very nicely. Not much really happened this month. I did become co-admin of an online game called Tetrinet located at http://www.TetriNet-IRC.com/. I, for the most part maintain that site also.

October 5th I registered the domain jeremyjefferson.com. October 6th I put this site you are on now online. October 8th I turned 19 and started a poll to see how old people think I look. This poll closed January 1st, 2006 and you can view the results on the side bar.

November was boring.

In December I became a member of Helpcom on DynastyNet. You can view my bio there at http://www.dynastynet.net/staff.php?action=DrJ. I also completed my first full semester of College.

That’s a sum up of 2005 for me.

Note: This post is from my old blog

Looks like I missed my November issue to my blog, oh well. I’m within weeks of finishing my first semester of college. The good news is, it looks like I will pass all my classes. I should be getting at least a B in all of them.

Next semester starts next month. I have posted my schedule, which you look at here. I will satisfy all my prerequisites for my Networking classes in the spring. Then next Fall I can finally get into the stuff I’m going to college for.

Went shopping on “Black Friday” this year. First time I’ve ever went. I bought a 1 GIG Flash Drive for $48 (half price). You can see a picture of the flash drive here.

No job as of right now. I have applied at Holiday Inn Express, and plan on try some other hotels. My car is still running, although it has shown a few signs of nearing “death” in the past few weeks. Well see.

As for JWJKP, no new programs have been released in the past few months. The Evader may go into a “freeze” mode delaying the release of it. I’ve had some second thoughts about releasing a program like this for the reputation of JWJKP. My next program will most likely be a DCC client for IRC clients like mIRC.

Well, not much more to say. Happy Holidays to all.

-Jeremy Jefferson

Note: This post is from my old blog

September was my first full month in college. I’m attending Indiana’s Ivy Tech Community College. So far everything is going great. I have Classes only on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. My Wednesday class can be done on the internet if I wish. I also have one other internet class.

The hunt for a job has resulted in no luck as of right now. I plan on applying at a lot of places in the following weeks.

As for my car, My dad and I fixed my front left strut and replaced the coil spring. It rides a lot nicer now. Before we fixed it every bump you went over made a noise. Now we need to fix the brake problem, which squeaks for some reason. I might also get another strut for the front right tire.

As for programming, I’ve been a little lazy the last month. I have created a few things however. Since I help manage a Tetrinet server at www.TetriNet-IRC.com, I decided to write a bot to relay messages from one server to another. I’m also putting some final GUI touches on my Evader application to be released mid January.

To add to my arsenal of programming languages, I’m attempting to learn PHP and Perl. I hope to have these mastered within the next few months to allow me to create nice features on my site with CGI and PHP.

I’m also starting a program to help people who run their own Apache web servers and have no idea how to co figurate the htacces file. This program might not ever be finished but it’s coming along.

My website has seen many changes in the last month also. I’ve created a script, along with Tikiman (A person I know from IRC), to show you my idle time on my personal site. You can find this at www.jeremy.jwjkp.com/contact.php. My idle time is the amount of time since I last did something on my desktop computer. My pictures archive has been moved to www.jeremy.jwjkp.com/pictures.php. This was an effort to allow you to view them and my personal site at the same time.

Some time next month I plan on uploading JWJKP’s first service to its viewers. I plan on creating a Pasteboard where you can paste snippets of text to allow other people to view. I might also purchase a new domain just for my personal site. If this happens, www.jeremy.jwjkp.com will be forwarded to the new site so you won’t miss out.

That’s about all I have for this month, thank you for reading.

-Jeremy Jefferson

Note: This post is from my old blog