It's been a while but I'm finally living in a new city! My college education started eleven days ago and I've settled in, into my new apartment which I share with another student and also, temporarily, his brother (as in, we've got separate rooms but share kitchen and bathroom). I ordered a laptop to use for studies and work and it arrived yesterday. A word of advice: You might think a laptop is small and that you can take your bike to get it. Think again. ;)
It turned out the package was almost as tall as my bike and kinda wide too, which made it very difficult to transport. After walking 25% of the road home trying to lead my bike and keep the package from falling off it, I discovered that it was possible to put it over the bicycle handlebar and the kinda-small-basket I had on the front, all as long as I grabbed the large plastic bag with my hands and kept holding it with a tight grip while I was also holding the handlebar. Tricky tricky, but we all made it home in one piece. The laptop I bought is a MSI GS70 2PE-something. It's 17" so unfortunatley I think it would be very hard to use on the trains here sine the laptop is too big.. But we'll see. I don't plan on taking the train any time soon anyways.
Today we had out first seminar, but other than that, we've mostly been playing board games for these past two weeks. No, seriously. I'm studying digital games and this class is an introduction to that, to learn us how to think and analyze games.
By the way, it still echoes in my apartment of 32 square meters, due to lack of furniture (I only have my bed, computer station, chest of drawers, tv-bench and two chairs, inluding my gaming one) so I'm going to order a sofa bed next year (when I can afford one) and also a coffee table. This laptop set me back a lot financially so it's probably gonna be a couple of months or so before i can really afford to buy anything. But hey, who needs furniture when you've got a brand-new gaming laptop? :)
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Long time no see
It's been quite a while since I wrote anything in this blog and I could blame it on a busy summer, but that would not be entirely true. So let's sum it up real quick:
Last time I was active was during the last part of April. In May I "graduated" from my one-year-education with top grades and moved back to my former city for the summer. During July (and in August for sure), I found out that I got accepted to one of the eleven educations I applied to. Unfortunatley I didn't get my first choice of game programming, or my second choice of game graphics, but will now instead study "digital games" for three years and earn my "Degree of Bachelor of Science, with a Main field of study in Media Technology". Not a 100% game programming education, but I can still use it to become a game developer, which is my goal. I've got a new apartment but can't move in until September 1, which also happens to be the very same day my education starts, so moving across the country (I will move even further away from my home town this year) and unpack all the furniture and start the education all in the same day will be a bit tricky.
From time to time I've had a lot to do this summer, but for the past few weeks it's actually been a lot of gaming since most of the more "serious" stuff has already been taken care of. My brother showed me a game named "Banished", which I had never heard of before. According to it's own wiki page, it's a "city-building strategy game for PC", which is a fair description. Think Age of Empires, but without the war part. You start out with a small settlement and from there you can build pastures, orchards, forest huts, hunting huts, gathering huts, houses, blacksmiths, mines, hospitals, etc.. You get the picture. Transform your settlement into a thriving metropolis but make sure to have a way to survive the plague/winter/ fire or other disaster that may strike your settlement. When you've reached your goal with the city/village/continent there's a bunch of achievements for you to get if you've ran out of ideas with your map. I think it's a really fun game and I've probably spent a lot more time on that game alone than I should (sorry, League of Legends). I have actually only played LoL a handful of times this summer, even though I was thinking of starting a serious 5v5 team in May. Guess I haven't felt like playing it as much as I pictured.
Well that's basically my life summed up, from May until now. I have 1½ weeks left before the move and I think I'm going to spend that on hanging out with friends, playing some games, maybe squeeze in a little more blogging and, of course, do the final packing. Most of my stuff are still in boxes and I pretty much just have to pack kitchen stuff, clothes, and my computer so that shouldn't take too long. Actually I'm half-way through that too.
Until next time!
Last time I was active was during the last part of April. In May I "graduated" from my one-year-education with top grades and moved back to my former city for the summer. During July (and in August for sure), I found out that I got accepted to one of the eleven educations I applied to. Unfortunatley I didn't get my first choice of game programming, or my second choice of game graphics, but will now instead study "digital games" for three years and earn my "Degree of Bachelor of Science, with a Main field of study in Media Technology". Not a 100% game programming education, but I can still use it to become a game developer, which is my goal. I've got a new apartment but can't move in until September 1, which also happens to be the very same day my education starts, so moving across the country (I will move even further away from my home town this year) and unpack all the furniture and start the education all in the same day will be a bit tricky.
From time to time I've had a lot to do this summer, but for the past few weeks it's actually been a lot of gaming since most of the more "serious" stuff has already been taken care of. My brother showed me a game named "Banished", which I had never heard of before. According to it's own wiki page, it's a "city-building strategy game for PC", which is a fair description. Think Age of Empires, but without the war part. You start out with a small settlement and from there you can build pastures, orchards, forest huts, hunting huts, gathering huts, houses, blacksmiths, mines, hospitals, etc.. You get the picture. Transform your settlement into a thriving metropolis but make sure to have a way to survive the plague/winter/ fire or other disaster that may strike your settlement. When you've reached your goal with the city/village/continent there's a bunch of achievements for you to get if you've ran out of ideas with your map. I think it's a really fun game and I've probably spent a lot more time on that game alone than I should (sorry, League of Legends). I have actually only played LoL a handful of times this summer, even though I was thinking of starting a serious 5v5 team in May. Guess I haven't felt like playing it as much as I pictured.
Well that's basically my life summed up, from May until now. I have 1½ weeks left before the move and I think I'm going to spend that on hanging out with friends, playing some games, maybe squeeze in a little more blogging and, of course, do the final packing. Most of my stuff are still in boxes and I pretty much just have to pack kitchen stuff, clothes, and my computer so that shouldn't take too long. Actually I'm half-way through that too.
Until next time!
Monday, April 21, 2014
School break almost over
Tomorrow will be my last day on the school break and I haven't really accomplished much this week. I handed in my application for the fall a couple of days ago and I REALLY hope I will get in to at least one of the educations I choosed. I focused on game development, with programming as my first priority and game design as my second. I will probably know in a couple of months if any of them accepted me.
I will spend the day tomorrow preparing for school and possibly fit some gaming in there somewhere.
Oh, I almost forgot.. I got my first pentakill on LoL two days ago.. Unfortunately it was a bot game, so it doesn't really count.. Next goal: Getting penta on PvP! :)
I will spend the day tomorrow preparing for school and possibly fit some gaming in there somewhere.
Oh, I almost forgot.. I got my first pentakill on LoL two days ago.. Unfortunately it was a bot game, so it doesn't really count.. Next goal: Getting penta on PvP! :)
Monday, April 14, 2014
Busy day, busy week
Well, technically I had a slow morning, watching "2 Broke girls" and checking my websites, but tomorrow is the final day to hand in applications for the educations that will start in the fall, so that is what I am going to do this evening. I also have some minor things that needs to be done, and I haven't yet decided in which order to take them on. I have a lot on my plate right now but hey, I'm still on school break! :)
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Thursday
And as usual, I have math until lunch. Tomorrow at noon, school ends and we will have one week off. Can't wait! I don't really have any plans, I just really need a break! I'm going to take a few days off, then I have a lot of studying to do.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Wordpress
Today we're working with wordpress in our virtual Lubuntu machines. Last time we did that, I found out that I apparently already had a wordpress blog! 30 seconds ago I got a message on it, wishing me happy anniversary since I registered it one year ago. Who knew!? I'm thinking about updating that site and run it in swedish, but since I already have this blog, I'm not sure if I wan't to spend more time on that. I'll make a few posts tho and time will tell what happens. If you wan't to take a look at my page, you can find it HERE.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Another short weekend
Just like two weeks ago, I had to be in school on a saturday. Granted, another type of studying, but studying none the less. I went to a school to take a total of five tests that kept me busy from 8.30 am-4.30 p.m.
You are given 55 minutes to complete each test and I really don't think that's enough time. Some questions I was just guessing without reading them properly, because there wasn't enough time to complete the test (there are A,B,C,D,E boxes and you mark one of them to answer the question).
These tests can increase your chance of getting in to a university, but I don't really think I did that well this time.. Each time you complete these tests, the results are valid for five years and then they're considered expired. I took the test one time before, but that was five years ago and since those results expire in the fall, when I plan to study again, I had to take the test again. Well, you don't have to, but it helps. I think my last test went much better, but hopefully it's not too bad.
Today I started my morning with some photoshop, now I'm in IT class (web design) and will have that until the end of the day. I think I'll be gaming tonight. Not sure what tho.. I feel like I wanna build something, so perhaps some Sims 3? Or Minecraft? Or some LoL, feel like playing that too.
You are given 55 minutes to complete each test and I really don't think that's enough time. Some questions I was just guessing without reading them properly, because there wasn't enough time to complete the test (there are A,B,C,D,E boxes and you mark one of them to answer the question).
These tests can increase your chance of getting in to a university, but I don't really think I did that well this time.. Each time you complete these tests, the results are valid for five years and then they're considered expired. I took the test one time before, but that was five years ago and since those results expire in the fall, when I plan to study again, I had to take the test again. Well, you don't have to, but it helps. I think my last test went much better, but hopefully it's not too bad.
Today I started my morning with some photoshop, now I'm in IT class (web design) and will have that until the end of the day. I think I'll be gaming tonight. Not sure what tho.. I feel like I wanna build something, so perhaps some Sims 3? Or Minecraft? Or some LoL, feel like playing that too.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Broken refrigerator
Had a great surprise today.. The small fridge in our dorm broke.. Probably yesterday, because all the food was spoiled today.. Luckilly, all of my food (except one package) is in the larger fridge in the dorm so I didn't really lose anything.. But oh my good, the smell! Or stench rather.. It was NOT fun cleaning that up, had to hang my upper body out the window several times in order to survive in there, haha! We cleaned the rest of the dorm too since we already took all the cleaning stuff out and we had to do it soon anyways..
Now it's time for me to get back to writing my essay and then hit the gym and hopefully most of the stench in the dorm will be gone when I get back...
Now it's time for me to get back to writing my essay and then hit the gym and hopefully most of the stench in the dorm will be gone when I get back...
Monday, March 24, 2014
Photoshop Poster
Just got my poster back that I did in photoshop a couple of weeks ago. No idea what to do with it.. Put it on a wall at home, maybe..
Right now I'm so tired, had a weird night, sleep-wise.. Was laying in bed, but with my head at the wrong end of the bed.. It was three a.m. and suddenly I woke up (and it was 8.10), because my dorm mate was knocking on my door, asking if I was joining for breakfast. I'm lucky he did that, because I didn't set any alarm...
Like every monday, today I only have computer classes and my day ends at 2.25 p.m. I have a presentation due tomorrow, so I will probably work on that tonight. Other than that, no plans for today...
Right now I'm so tired, had a weird night, sleep-wise.. Was laying in bed, but with my head at the wrong end of the bed.. It was three a.m. and suddenly I woke up (and it was 8.10), because my dorm mate was knocking on my door, asking if I was joining for breakfast. I'm lucky he did that, because I didn't set any alarm...
Like every monday, today I only have computer classes and my day ends at 2.25 p.m. I have a presentation due tomorrow, so I will probably work on that tonight. Other than that, no plans for today...
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