After taking a year out and finding out what it’s like working full time in a job I really don’t like, I can honestly say I’m glad to be back. I’ve spent the last year regretting leaving the course but to my defence it was partly because of my financial situations that lead to me leaving.
I was very much looking forwards to rejoining the course and picking up from where I’d left off but there was a large part of me that was/is quite nervous. This is due to two things; firstly I was joining a class that I only knew one person from (who actually wasn’t there on my first day). I’m not the most confident person and I would like to thank everyone for making me feel welcomed and part of the group. The second reason is that I’ve spent the last year not using anything I’d learnt in the first year and now I have to refresh myself with the first year while trying to work on the second year projects. This is why I’m still slightly nervous because I know I’ve got a lot to catch up on.
I feel that my first day on the second year went better than expected since I felt confident with what I had to do and know I’ll be able to get it complete by the next lesson. The only real worry for me was the pace I worked at, I feel that I worked quite slow today and although I expected a bumpy return, I felt I could have got more work done.
Looking back at my ‘End of the First Year Evaluation’ I still feel like I’m in the same position and the goals I set myself are still goals I’m going to work towards but now with the added PHP and MySQL goal.