Mayday + 15
I'm sick. I've done well up until now: I haven't been ill since the beginning of the semester, even when everyone else got tackled to the ground.
I think I'm having withdrawal symptoms from work ;-) Oh, and the fact that the "season of public holidays" have passed in sunny South Africa. The timing is great, though, because I have finished most of my projects and tests for the semester. I have a LaTeX test tomorrow, but I'm not sweating it. My image "compressor" (hehe), "my" operating system and the cryptology project have all been handed in. Everything, academic wise, is winding down. Now comes the exams and then the sweet uncertain void of the June holidays. Classes end on Friday, I write my first subject on the 26th and finish on the 2nd. Hopefully everything will go well... my predicate marks don't look too bad.
The further along the quarter went, the more the quality of my work deteriorated. This is not me. Guess I have some reflection to do on this, although I have been having trouble reflecting/focusing on something of late. Yay for me.
So, that's my story for the past two months: work. Not much more to tell. I'm getting a laptop on Thursday! Woohoo! It's a pretty low-end laptop, but I don't mind: I just want it for work and for portable-storage benefit. And I'm getting it for real cheap: R3500! That's almost half have the price of a low-end laptop you see in the ads that come with the newspaper. The most people I know who have laptops have either had their laptops stolen or break, so the whole "cheap laptop" thing was a big sale for me.
Got free internet at the flat! I connect through my cellphone... it's GPRS, so it's very slow and I can only browse and download, but it's better than nothing.
The other day I wrote Numerical Methods and it was a butchery. But I didn't feel too bad about it, because it was something special: there was mutual suffering in the class. It was a 40 mark, 60 minute test. Another hour was added to the test, but it didn't help most people much, so :-P
It's hard to go out with people at the moment, because it is simply that time of the semester that everyone is busy and stressed.
Language debate at Stellenbosch and "quality control" of the Computer Science Department continuing.
The year is nearly freaking half way. Freaking frick.
Other than that, not much more to say.
I think I'm having withdrawal symptoms from work ;-) Oh, and the fact that the "season of public holidays" have passed in sunny South Africa. The timing is great, though, because I have finished most of my projects and tests for the semester. I have a LaTeX test tomorrow, but I'm not sweating it. My image "compressor" (hehe), "my" operating system and the cryptology project have all been handed in. Everything, academic wise, is winding down. Now comes the exams and then the sweet uncertain void of the June holidays. Classes end on Friday, I write my first subject on the 26th and finish on the 2nd. Hopefully everything will go well... my predicate marks don't look too bad.
The further along the quarter went, the more the quality of my work deteriorated. This is not me. Guess I have some reflection to do on this, although I have been having trouble reflecting/focusing on something of late. Yay for me.
So, that's my story for the past two months: work. Not much more to tell. I'm getting a laptop on Thursday! Woohoo! It's a pretty low-end laptop, but I don't mind: I just want it for work and for portable-storage benefit. And I'm getting it for real cheap: R3500! That's almost half have the price of a low-end laptop you see in the ads that come with the newspaper. The most people I know who have laptops have either had their laptops stolen or break, so the whole "cheap laptop" thing was a big sale for me.
Got free internet at the flat! I connect through my cellphone... it's GPRS, so it's very slow and I can only browse and download, but it's better than nothing.
The other day I wrote Numerical Methods and it was a butchery. But I didn't feel too bad about it, because it was something special: there was mutual suffering in the class. It was a 40 mark, 60 minute test. Another hour was added to the test, but it didn't help most people much, so :-P
It's hard to go out with people at the moment, because it is simply that time of the semester that everyone is busy and stressed.
Language debate at Stellenbosch and "quality control" of the Computer Science Department continuing.
The year is nearly freaking half way. Freaking frick.
Other than that, not much more to say.
posted by phantom-99w at 21:06
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