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marnanelI had a System.
Every year, I would find out what the subjects I was studying were, and buy folders, one colour for each subject. As the year progressed, I would buy more folders for the subjects that needed them, and letraset black or gold gothic numerals onto the spines. When you buy a four-pack of markers, you usually get orange, green, yellow, and blue. I decided that I would write the initials of each subject on the little bit of card that comes in the plastic pocket in highlighter, and use a different coloured highlighter for each academic year. Over the top I would write the name of the subject in black. That way, whatever subject had green folders for the first year wouldn't clash with whatever subject had green folders for the second.
My university used to name each year by the initials of the subject and the year number. So my first year was CS1, and CS1 was orange highlighter. The subjects in CS1 were Programming (white), Organisation of Computer Systems (green), Formal Notations and Models (red), and Problem Solving (blue). Problem Solving was a very squishy sort of subject and I didn't do very well at it.
CS2 was green, and I remember less about the individual subjects. Data Organisation and Programming ("DOP") was white again. We were required to take one law course, and that was yellow.
CS3 was spent in industry, and so there was no need for folders, but I allocated it yellow anyway.
CS4 was going to be blue, but I decided to make it purple at the last moment, because it's one of the colours of the academic dress, and besides, my master's year had a better claim on blue. In CS4 we finally got to choose what subjects we studied. I studied networking, processor design, database theory, computational linguistics, and a few other things that slip my mind now. Also, there was the dissertation. Mine was called "On the automatic translation of dataflow diagrams" because I thought it seemed interesting at the time; it would have been more interesting and more useful to do something on computational linguistics, but I hadn't studied that as much as I wanted to when I started the dissertation.
My master's year was blue; we studied linguistics, formal grammars, and signal processing.
Every year, I would find out what the subjects I was studying were, and buy folders, one colour for each subject. As the year progressed, I would buy more folders for the subjects that needed them, and letraset black or gold gothic numerals onto the spines. When you buy a four-pack of markers, you usually get orange, green, yellow, and blue. I decided that I would write the initials of each subject on the little bit of card that comes in the plastic pocket in highlighter, and use a different coloured highlighter for each academic year. Over the top I would write the name of the subject in black. That way, whatever subject had green folders for the first year wouldn't clash with whatever subject had green folders for the second.
My university used to name each year by the initials of the subject and the year number. So my first year was CS1, and CS1 was orange highlighter. The subjects in CS1 were Programming (white), Organisation of Computer Systems (green), Formal Notations and Models (red), and Problem Solving (blue). Problem Solving was a very squishy sort of subject and I didn't do very well at it.
CS2 was green, and I remember less about the individual subjects. Data Organisation and Programming ("DOP") was white again. We were required to take one law course, and that was yellow.
CS3 was spent in industry, and so there was no need for folders, but I allocated it yellow anyway.
CS4 was going to be blue, but I decided to make it purple at the last moment, because it's one of the colours of the academic dress, and besides, my master's year had a better claim on blue. In CS4 we finally got to choose what subjects we studied. I studied networking, processor design, database theory, computational linguistics, and a few other things that slip my mind now. Also, there was the dissertation. Mine was called "On the automatic translation of dataflow diagrams" because I thought it seemed interesting at the time; it would have been more interesting and more useful to do something on computational linguistics, but I hadn't studied that as much as I wanted to when I started the dissertation.
My master's year was blue; we studied linguistics, formal grammars, and signal processing.
