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	<title>Miriam Parkinson &#187; AI</title>
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		<title>A New Direction In Life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBL has taught me many things, most importantly that I&#8217;m kinda heading in the wrong direction with all of this automotive engineering stuff. I love cars but its just not my thing. So, in an attempt to figure out what is &#8216;my thing&#8217;, I sat down and had a little think about what I&#8217;m good [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IBL has taught me many things, most importantly that I&#8217;m kinda heading in the wrong direction with all of this automotive engineering stuff. I love cars but its just not my thing. So, in an attempt to figure out what is &#8216;my thing&#8217;, I sat down and had a little think about what I&#8217;m good at, what I enjoy, what I&#8217;m interested in and suchlike. The upshot of all this is that I&#8217;ve decided to take a slightly different direction to my original intended one.</p>
<p>During my pondering I noted that almost without exception my best marks every Semester have been in my software subjects. I also noted that I really like programming. Programming is one of the few things that I can just sit down and do. My ADD seems to go into hiding as soon as I get into the swing of a bit of coding.  So at this point I&#8217;m thinking &#8216;aha, perhaps something relating to software could be a good plan.&#8217;</p>
<p>I then considered what I&#8217;m interested in and, looking back on all the information I used to devour I realise that neurobiology seems to be more heavily represented in my bookcase than any other subject.  I&#8217;ve also always been fascinated by automation. Not boring manufacturing style automation but proper intelligent automation, like cars that drive themselves for example.</p>
<p>By now you can probably see where I&#8217;m going with this. I have decided that after I finish my Bachelor degree I will do a <a href="https://psc.unimelb.edu.au/view/courseStream/361AA.html" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/psc.unimelb.edu.au');">Master of Software Systems Engineering</a> specialising in AI. I do of course recognise that I may not be able to work in AI straight away which is fine because everything I&#8217;m doing up to and including the Masters degree will give me enough generic programming skills to get me by for a bit. In the mean time I shall try my hand at programming little web apps and suchlike. Got to do something with all the spare time that my remaining years at uni will provide.</p>
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