I really liked your experience, I felt identified with a lot of things you said. I'm still a student with a freelancer job, and the truth is that working on a school project has nothing to do with working with real clients. The kind of problems you have to solve are completely different, you have no guidance, or a enunciate/statement/specification for what you have to do. I also liked your blog, I'm following you. I like to read/write about web development, maybe you can check my blog later.