Three of the more interesting programs they offered were "interims","contracts" and "walkabouts".
Interims were available to Freshmen, Sophmores, and Juniors. You could take a week off once a year to do a independent education project of your own design. Some people taught themselves to sew, write programs, construct an electronics project or paint/draw/scuplt to fill their portfolio for acceptance to a college art programs. Other people would use their week for a mini intership.
Seniors that completed their graduation requirements could go on "Walkabout" which was two 9 week periods for independent study, like "Interims" could be used for independent study or interships.
We could also create our own programs for school credit, called "contracts", if you could find a teacher who would sign off on it. For you, you would find an unpaid internship with a company for a set number of hours a week, and at the end you would have to write a paper of what you learned.
A lot of large school districts have similiar programs in "magnet" schools. Ask you school counselor. You might even find that your school has the ability to do similiar projects, they just don't advertise it.
It used to be vocational school were descouraged for college bound students. I've been told that isn't as true any more. If you complete a vocational program and your college prep courses, colleges will take notice. (At least thats what I've heard from my wife, a high school teacher)
Our shool district now offers an I.T. vocational programs. I wish they had when I was in high school. What I've heard from vocational school students, you are required to work in your field and they have placement programs.
You really should talk to your counselor.
I wish I had your sense of direction at your age.
Good luck!!
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Hijack This will create a log of possible Malware. Google all the entries to figure out which ones aren't legit. Not always easy since some malware will randonly rename themselves.
Remove questionable entries, either by googling the specific manual removal instructions or let HT delete the entry for you.
Also use msconfig to turn off all startup items. then got to "services", hide the MS services and turn off everything left. Reboot. Turn all services left and reboot. Turn on each item turned off and reboot till Malware shows itself.
Once the baddie is located research manual removal instructions.
I had a similiar problem with my PHB's wife's PC.
The above helped though the biggest problem turned out there were 6 worms hiding out and turning Norton off at each reboot. Had to download and burn to CD 20 something worm/virus detect and removal progs.
It would be fun to send that drive to one of those data recovery outfits that do free quotes.
They are the pros, they might see something you might miss.
The whole thing about CSI techs with arms, and questioning suspects pushed my buttons. Also, how each CSI tech is some amazing jack of all trades bugs me. None of the CSIs are must watch TV for me.
The only episode I ever watched all the way thru had them recovering a formatted hard drive with some kind of GUI utility that looked just as real as the computers in the movie "hackers".
I'll be impressed when I see someone spend hours laboring over a boring blue Diskedit screen, painstakingly stitching toghether raw hex.
My local gov. makes a lot info available thru this site. Appraised value, purchase price, name of the mortgage company. No aerial picture, but often there is a picture from the street taken by the county appraiser.
Came in handy when I needed to determine what to ask for my house when it came time to sell.
Also a lot of fun to see what property your co-workers own. Turned out one of my fellow lowly grunts had a small rental empire he wasn't telling anyone about.
http://209.51.193.83/
It also kills me that this site has no name, just the ip address.
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Three of the more interesting programs they offered were "interims","contracts" and "walkabouts".
Interims were available to Freshmen, Sophmores, and Juniors. You could take a week off once a year to do a independent education project of your own design. Some people taught themselves to sew, write programs, construct an electronics project or paint/draw/scuplt to fill their portfolio for acceptance to a college art programs. Other people would use their week for a mini intership.
Seniors that completed their graduation requirements could go on "Walkabout" which was two 9 week periods for independent study, like "Interims" could be used for independent study or interships.
We could also create our own programs for school credit, called "contracts", if you could find a teacher who would sign off on it. For you, you would find an unpaid internship with a company for a set number of hours a week, and at the end you would have to write a paper of what you learned.
A lot of large school districts have similiar programs in "magnet" schools. Ask you school counselor. You might even find that your school has the ability to do similiar projects, they just don't advertise it.
It used to be vocational school were descouraged for college bound students. I've been told that isn't as true any more. If you complete a vocational program and your college prep courses, colleges will take notice. (At least thats what I've heard from my wife, a high school teacher)
Our shool district now offers an I.T. vocational programs. I wish they had when I was in high school. What I've heard from vocational school students, you are required to work in your field and they have placement programs.
You really should talk to your counselor.
I wish I had your sense of direction at your age. Good luck!!
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html Hijack This will create a log of possible Malware. Google all the entries to figure out which ones aren't legit. Not always easy since some malware will randonly rename themselves. Remove questionable entries, either by googling the specific manual removal instructions or let HT delete the entry for you. Also use msconfig to turn off all startup items. then got to "services", hide the MS services and turn off everything left. Reboot. Turn all services left and reboot. Turn on each item turned off and reboot till Malware shows itself. Once the baddie is located research manual removal instructions. I had a similiar problem with my PHB's wife's PC. The above helped though the biggest problem turned out there were 6 worms hiding out and turning Norton off at each reboot. Had to download and burn to CD 20 something worm/virus detect and removal progs.
It would be fun to send that drive to one of those data recovery outfits that do free quotes. They are the pros, they might see something you might miss.
The whole thing about CSI techs with arms, and questioning suspects pushed my buttons. Also, how each CSI tech is some amazing jack of all trades bugs me. None of the CSIs are must watch TV for me. The only episode I ever watched all the way thru had them recovering a formatted hard drive with some kind of GUI utility that looked just as real as the computers in the movie "hackers". I'll be impressed when I see someone spend hours laboring over a boring blue Diskedit screen, painstakingly stitching toghether raw hex.
My local gov. makes a lot info available thru this site. Appraised value, purchase price, name of the mortgage company. No aerial picture, but often there is a picture from the street taken by the county appraiser.
Came in handy when I needed to determine what to ask for my house when it came time to sell.
Also a lot of fun to see what property your co-workers own. Turned out one of my fellow lowly grunts had a small rental empire he wasn't telling anyone about.
http://209.51.193.83/
It also kills me that this site has no name, just the ip address.