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A short letter to a Computer Science college fresher

October 7, 2018 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

Img source: dev.to

Now is the time when new college or university students start their studies. A lot of them may feel a lot of enthusiasm and maybe also have some feelings of fear, as they are not sure what to expect. In dev.to, I saw a developer named Avi Aryan that titled an article about a letter in which he has mentioned 2 advice he gave to someone who is about to start his studies in computer science. It had some really great advice that resonated with me, that I wanted to write about this topic. Continue reading

Is Social Media greater than Education?

June 5, 2014 / Fatos Morina / 1 Comment

More than half of the population of the world actually uses social media and finding someone who is not using them is very rare, that it can even be seen as a strange occasion. And also, the vast majority of the adults use social media during a good portion of the day, that in fact resembles a lot of hours wasted only on scrolling down the wheel of the mouse, or swiping on a smartphone. Only a few friends of mine don’t use Facebook, because they see it as a big waster of time, so they have been able to resist using it. Continue reading

How NOT to pass an exam

May 15, 2014 / Fatos Morina / 3 Comments

We always hear a lot of advice about approaches and tricks on how to pass an exam and if we fail using them, we simply try again and again, but we are not aware that sometimes we are unconsciously admitting to fail. In this article I will try to make a pattern about the actions that may lead to not pass an exam.

Do not attend your lectures

Even though some of them may not be as efficient as we would like them to be and they can be early in the morning, or late during the afternoon, lectures are really important and skipping them can have a considerable impact in a few more hours needed to understand and learn something. Continue reading

“I am ready to give up when I haven’t even started”

April 6, 2014 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

Today I read a post from a reddit user, who was in a depressed mood I guess, because he has been trying to do a midterm project, but he couldn’t finish it, and, even though he had been trying, he wasn’t able to achieve it. He had almost completed it, but because a method was unreachable, the game that he intended to do was not ready yet. He tried to contact with teaching assistants from his university, but they didn’t even try to help him and, because he is busy working, he cannot go to his professor’s office hours. Because most of his class mates have been accomplishing this assignment without a problem, he started to think that he is not meant to be a programmer. Continue reading