Just as a note of that I’m still alive and relatively well, I’d like to notice that I’ve decided to buy a new laptop.
There is a special program at our university which allows students to buy mobile computers at a reduced price.
As my old laptop is now slowly beginning to fall apart, I’ve ordered a HP EliteBook 8530w. My variant is with the Intel Core2 Duo T9550 processor, WUXGA Display and apparently a ruggedized case.
I’m very curious when it’ll arrive…
Just wrote the last written exam for the past term at the university. Now the most of the stress for that term is over.
There are just one or two exercises left to hand in and then we can relax for one or two days until the next term starts.
The beginning of the upcoming term should be not so stressful at the beginning, so we can use this period to breathe a bit more.
One of the subjects I’m curious most in the next term will be "Computer Graphics", which seems to be the largest one. I think this one will be very interesting.
On another note, I’ve just noticed that my StackOverflow.com reputation score has just exceeded 1.000 points 🙂 Yay.
As the title says, the University has quite an impact on all students in my class. The workload currently is enormous, with projects, tests and homework in almost any lecture.
Our class currently has already just half the size it was at start of studying, but still some are considering to shrink their worktime to be able to cope with studying. Every single lecture is manageable on its own but the sum of all of them is more than previous classes had to work on.
We’re planning to have a talk with the head of our study-department on the issue although we don’t have any proposals for solutions… It’s not easy to shift the work around.
Let’s see, what this develops…
Yes, the promised additional photos are still lacking presence. Yes, there are still blog-updates happening every two to three weeks. Yes, I know.
Sorry for that. I’ve been trying to keep up with work and the stuff we have to do this semester for the university. This time we’ve got a project assignment in almost every subject also with some quit tight schedules.
Also at work there have been some interesting changes as we have made significant changes to our Scrum development process. We changed the teams completely and also mixed up all of the upcoming tasks which means that the new teams have to adopt to the new areas they’re working on now. But so far I think it works even better than expected and we’re producing results faster than we hoped. I’m quite positive that this will advance even more in the near future. Exciting times ahead…
What has been some sort of a setback in the last weeks were some expenses I had to take for my car. A big regular maintenance, some rust removal (rust has been no surprise but the amount was unexpected) and a change of my handlebars. New winter tires were also necessary. Bye bye, last months salary 🙁 At least it’s cheaper than having to purchase a new car (with more unexpected sidecosts) and I’m dependent on being mobile. But I think my car is now prepared for some more years to come.
Yesterday our last lecture for this term at the university took place. This concludes the second term and leaves just most of the tests open which will have to be passed in the next weeks. Last Wednesday we already had our Russian final exam. I expected to be quite bad in this as I’m normally quite bad in languages but I think I did surprisingly well. Of course, now I don’t have time to dig deeper into that language but I plan this for later.
So, on to the next ones…
Well, I think this time I messed up my whole time planning. The last two weeks were learning-free time and I started way too late to continue learning again. Now it’s the case that today evening we’re having a little Russian-test and I haven’t even touched a fourth of the stuff we had to do until today. Also on upcoming saturday we’ll have an end-term exam in "Documentation- and Work-techniques" and all I did for it until now is printing out a course-summary of a colleague. Damit…
Last Friday we fought our long-feared battle against the math exam papers. Immediately after I’ve finished the work and left the class I felt extremely disappointed because the test was so easy and hardly covered a fourth of the stuff we had to learn (I guess). The different pieces were plain easy and solveable almost with the formula-sheet alone.
For what reason did I spend almost every free hour in the last few weeks learning maths with my colleagues? And had the feeling that I was not even good enough at all the stuff to reach a positive mark?
Dammit. I’m happy that the current semester is the last one where we have to bear this teacher and mathematics at all.
The last two days have again been an exam-weekend and I’ve been learning with my classmates to survive past Friday and Saturday in one piece. I think all of them as well as myself have done not too bad and I’m positive that there will be no major problems arising as the marks will be told in the near future.
The next and last exams for this semester will be near the end of February so this means the next few days will offer the possibility to relax a bit. We’ve been learning for the exams almost every weekend and several times during the week for the last 5 or 6 weeks now and there has been little time to sleep long or just catch some breath.
Now is the time and I’ll calm down a bit before continuing and preparing the final exams…
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