And now that’s it: I’m finished with classes and lessons!!!!! HURRAAA!!! All the projects, exams and difficult days are over.

To celebrate our last 3 hours of class (on the 06.23.08 from 2pm to 5pm French hour), we organized a cool dinner with the major part of my classmates and then we went to a pool club. It was a brilliant evening!

The only things left is the oral exam for my internship on thursday and as soon I receive my final grades, I will be officially graduated!

But… now I do realize what it means to end the studies. That’s why I’d like to say : thanks guys, those 4 years (or 3 years for some of you) were really great! Without you, I would have never become what I’ve became and learn what I’ve learnt. Thanks for thoses great and painful moment that we shared and faced together. And finally just thanks for this social adventure. With a special attention to: Fred, PP and Zenithar that were just here

The end of the studies is something that every students wish when they are into it but also something that every new graduate regret when they leave it…

4 years ago, after having spent some time in Toulouse at the university Paul Sabatier studying mathematics and computer science, I decided to go deeper into the computer world by taking the orientation of the IUP ISI.

What is exactly the IUP ISI?

IUP stands for “Institut Universitaire Professionnalisé” which is a special cursus in french university. Basically, it covers the graduate diploma (3 first years at uni) plus the master diploma (5 years) and is focused on professionalization (by opposition to research). So when you finish your studies at the IUP you have the equivalent of a Master of Science (for scientific IUP, of course) and you have some experience in the work field thanks to the traineeships.

Of course, there are a lots of IUP and the one I study in is specialized in computer science, or more precisely, in Software Engineering: ISI, “Ingénierie des Systèmes Informatiques”. The particularity of the IUP ISI is that you have a traineeship every year of several month from april. This traineeship lasts at least 4 months and allows the students to participate to a real project and be a part of a compagny for this period. The last year of the IUP, students are on a work-based training: 2 days at Uni and 3 days in a compagny during 8 month.

For example, thanks to the IUP ISI, at the end of this schoolar year (end of June) I will have accumulated 21 months of work in compagnies (Siemens VDO SAS – 4 months, Airbus – 4 months, Freescale Semiconductors – 5+8 months)!

So this formation is a good mean the benefit from professionnal training and implies yourself in important projects.

Here is the link of the formation and here is the link of the forum if you need some more information from the students or the responsibles.