glh's Journal: All done!

Last night was the final exam for my Object Oriented Systems Analysis and Design class. Most of it was multiple choice, with a few UML diagrams at the end. It was a piece of cake (and should have been, as I do that for a living...).

While I feel glad that I have finally achieved my MBA after 3 long years (taking classes part time can be a real drag!!), I am also somewhat bummed. I really enjoy the academic environment.

So what's next??? Well, I'm not quite to a crossroads yet. I am looking forward to relaxing a little bit over the next month or two. I am also going to be doing about 10-15 hours a month on a new "side job" with a .NET application that an old friend of mine wants help with. Kind of excited about that. Since we are building a house (that still hasn't broken ground yet) it will be good to have some time available for getting things situated on that front. Most likely, I'll have my "next big project" figured out in a few months.

I'm hoping the benefits of my new degree will become apparent at some point in the near future. My company does not directly reward the achievement. Nevertheless, I do anticipate good opportunities opening up because of it... and if not here, then most likely elsewhere.

Further down the road, I do plan on going back for a doctorate. The main reason for a doctorate is so I can easily teach at a university (I love teaching, and an intro computer programming class would be perfect). Right now I'm toying with different topics. Currently, I am interested in doing research on software estimation. I also plan on going to a different university to mix things up a little bit. Unfortunately there aren't any great Computer Science / Software Engineering doctorate programs near here. Also, my wife is interested in going back for her MS (probably Environmental Science) so she'd probably have to get through that before I go back.

Wooohoo!!

Congrats!

[jawtheshark]

UC and OSU

[FortKnox]

UC is a highly known engineering school and the CS graduate school is in the college of engineering (dunno if they finally switched it over to "Software Engineering"... if not, the Computer Engineering professors let students concentrate on software for their doctorals).

OSU also has a decent CS department (though not a great engineering department).

And if you want to move down here, I know I could hook you up with a job in Cincy... but seeing that you just bought the house....

Also, I may email you if

Re:UC and OSU

[glh]

OSU also has a decent CS department (though not a great engineering department).
I'd like to look more into OSU as that might be a more realistic option.. Probably the most expensive one though :) I bet UC is probably similar to UT in terms of CSE, might be worth looking into.. Though I doubt I could ever talk my wife into moving THAT far away from her parents!

Also, I may email you if you got any info on getting .net and java talking to each other. Going to start looking into bridging the gap between the

Re:UC and OSU

[FortKnox]

web services may be a bit too slow, dunno...

Basically, I'll be running on a technology thats java only at a client running .NET. So I need to make a simple communication between the two so the client only needs to worry about maintaining the .net side of things.

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Re:Congratulations!

[glh]

Then again, I was an English major, so it was a different type of thinking than programming. :)

That's cool that you were an English major!

At one point I was interested in either switching my major to English or minoring in it (of course, I ended up not doing either). I really enjoyed studying English, however... Most likely because of all the literature and writing. One of my medium term goals is to publish some sort of programming book. I have been writing various .NET article and really enjoy that as

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