Yostivanich

For me head­ing to see my fam­ily for my vaca­tion is not a vaca­tion. I don’t get any real work done and I don’t really relax in any sense of the word. Owing to that and see­ing as how school starts back up in a week, I’m going to do a light and more than likely dull post tonight – my res­o­lu­tions for the new year. As per this arti­cle in New York Times, res­o­lu­tion need to be engi­neered in such a way as to both make them viable and spe­cific goal.

My gen­eral goals are to learn to orga­nize time bet­ter, work bet­ter at classes, improve my per­for­mance at my new job, blog con­sis­tently, write more pro­grams on my own time, and try to cut my cur­rent debt load.

The orga­niz­ing time bet­ter is more to try and get back on the band­wagon of read­ing again. In high school I used to read mul­ti­ple books in a week and since start­ing col­lege this has gone fur­ther and fur­ther down, to where I am lucky to read a book a month. The work­ing bet­ter at classes seems to be already ben­e­fit­ing from my change in jobs, with my grades and time able to devote to classes improv­ing sub­stan­tially since start­ing at the T-STEM Cen­ter. Blog­ging has both been some­thing that I enjoy doing and some­thing that I actu­ally do spo­radicly at best. I wish to do it con­sis­tently to both gain the prac­tice writ­ing, pro­mote my online pres­ence, and fur­ther edify myself. The writ­ing pro­grams and improv­ing per­for­mance at my cur­rent job can hope­fully be tied together to write web appli­ca­tions to both expand my hori­zons and help at work where I am mainly deal­ing with web devel­op­ment. The cut­ting my cur­rent debt load is of course always a good thing and a pretty gen­eral one that prob­a­bly 90% of the pub­lic also tries to do.

So to quan­tify my goals:

1. Read 1 book a week

2. Within 3 months buy my own domain and web­site hosting

3. Within 3 months of domain being pur­chased, move blog to this website

4. Blog every week­day – 1 post most week­ends regard­ing the sta­tus of the Library program

5. Push out Ver­sion 1.0 of my Library pro­gram by mid-summer

6. 15% of income to savings/retirement accounts

7. 10% of income to debt elim­i­na­tion (minimum)

8. Have a 3.75 or higher GPA for this semes­ter – basi­cally only allowed 1 B

   To make this goal reachable:

   1. Con­sis­tently redo notes from classes

   2. Take prac­tice tests

   3. Do not fin­ish home­work the night before it is due

   4. Plan CS projects

Here is hop­ing I can improve myself in the new year.