Day 31: One Down, 31 To Go

Hey everyone!  Wanted to send you guys an update.  I've been working my butt off despite a couple of life hinderances.  I am no longer working, but I have been strongly moving towards my move to KC to help out New City Church in any way, and every way, possible that I can.  But this isn't a personal blog, this is all about business for me.

I finished IMA this past sunday and got my final grade today.  It's a wonderful 97.75 of 100.  Granted, I feel it was an easy class, but every grade counts.  I just started BSC (Behavioral Science) which has a huge variety of projects for me to do.  The way this class work is every class gives you points towards 100.  However, the amount of assignments and points equals 210.  To sum it up, I don't have to do every assignment, just enough to get me to 100.  I'll probably be done by week 3 if I stick to my guns and work through stuff.  That would give me a week off!  We'll see what happens.  I just updated the banner too.  You can expect an update on the banner up top every time I finish a class and get my final grades.

Take care everyone, until next time!

~Jay

Day 18: Just Another Update

This is another update on a project I had to do that was due monday.  It was a garageband project for IMA that has yet to be graded so I'll give you all an update.  I literally got a crappy pic cause it was meant to be an audio only commercial but I can't upload just an audio file on Vimeo.  I just had to piece audio together and make it sound fluent.  Enjoy!


Beach Commercial from Jason Rosario on Vimeo.

Day 15: IMA Moving Forward

Well, it took my lazy butt a bit longer than expected to get that podcast project up, but here it is finally.  I also did a Garageband project that is due today at midnight which I already turned in which is just audio so I can't use vimeo.  As an update, the only blemish on my grades so far is a 97 in my week 1 quiz.  I have gotten 100 on my IMA submission, podcast, and week 2 quiz.


Podcast Project from Jason Rosario on Vimeo.

Day 8: Working Hard, Not Hardly Working

Well, the first week has finished and I'm just about done with all the assignments.  The only thing left for me to submit my podcast assignment by Wednesday.  It's done already, I just need to submit it in a .m4a format and that will be the end of the first week.  I'm going to post the podcast on here as soon as I do submit it as well.

I had 2 graded assignments my first week.  My IMA assignment which was the easiest assignment I've ever had got me a wonderful 100!  I also had a quiz on the first 4 chapters we were asked to read and got a 97 on that quiz too.  So far so good.

On the life front, I am starting to look into the opportunity of going to help a good friend and spiritual leader plant a church up in Kansas City.  I've started researching places, jobs, and how I am going to manage to do things over there.  I'm excited, scared, and a whole bunch of other emotions at the same time, but at least I'll still be able to go to school as long as I have this wonderful computer with me.

That's it for now.  I'll post the podcast on the next post as this week we're looking into sound.  Take care everyone!

And So It Begins: Day 1

First of all, I wanna take a second to thank my good friend Joseph Becerra for designing the wonderful header you see above this post now.  I think everyone should check him out for any designs they may need at www.jabdesigner.com and check his stuff out.  Now that I did my free, shameless plug for my friend, I wanna point out the relevance of the banner.

The banner is going to work kind of like a stat card for me as I go.  I'm going to put the current class up there.  Considering this is the first class I've taken on Full Sail Online, it's all I got.  I will keep some kind of scoring up there whether it be GPA and GPS and the grade for my last class.  I am making myself accountable to all of you wonderful people reading this blog.

Onto the new work.  Today was the first day of class and it wasn't as terrifying as I thought it would be.  I was able to go to work and do everything I needed to today and be on schedule for the week.  This week shouldn't be too bad, but I have no guarantees that this course is going to stay like this.  I also know for a fact that later on down the line, courses will get more intense and I'll have to make more and more sacrifices in my life just to make this work.  This is one of my biggest passions and I will not let myself fail.  Keep me motivated and encouraged!

Day 0: Orientation and So Much More

This first blog is actually a couple of days late, but it's the first chance I have to do it!  Hey everyone, my name is Jay and I am an incoming student at Full Sail University Online's Digital Cinematography Bachelor of Science degree.  Say that five times fast, haha.  The reason I say this should have been started a few days ago is because I wanted to do it once I had gotten my laptop.  Instead, I decided to do it after I did all the installations and my orientation course.

It ended up taking me just about 7 hours to install all the programs onto the Macbook Pro, the bulk of it was spent on Final Cut Studio.  I started it at 7pm on Friday 2/18/2011 and finished it at 2:20am the next morning.  Needless to say, I decided to pass out soon after.  I did my orientation class on Saturday and enjoyed myself thoroughly, actually being very excited to do something school related which I had put off for so long.  I decided just to take a break on Sunday.

This change in life has been a long time coming and believe me I could not be happier not only to be back in school, but to be pursuing a passion of mine.  The purpose of this blog is to give you a glimpse into the life of an FSO student who is currently working full time and actually has quite a few engagements outside work as well.  Needless to say, I'm aware I will need to make some sacrifices along the way and I am prepared to make them.  I'm inviting everyone who sees this blog to come along on this journey with me.  These are just the first steps and where this tale will end, only God knows.

Also, if you notice from my about me, I am a Christ follower and much of my outside activities involve that.  However, this blog is NOT my attempt to spiritually enlighten anyone, but I do want you if you have any questions to approach me.  I'm a pretty cool and open guy, just try me.  Take care readers!

-Jay