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The thoughts, opinions, happenings, and just plain ramblings of a seemingly boring person.

Home Stretch & Darn Cold

Just over 24 hours from now i would have completed semester 1 2004 and my 7th semester at university. I have tonnes planned to do this holidays, which doesn't even include having to work on COMP3804 throughout the break. I just made myself sad 🙁

The last day or two has been really cold, and i am absolutely loving it. As most people know, i am quite a profuse sweater which is, needless to say, very uncomfortable. Therefore i am very happy in the colder times of the year. My rationale being that when you are cold this is easily … Read more →

2 down, 1 to go

The last two days have been sort of an anti-climax after the COMP3804 exam on Tuesday. Wednesday night i had my HIST2100 exam, which wasn't that surprising. I didn't really give too much thought to it as i had probably already passed the course. The questions on the exam weren't all that difficult anyway.

My only exam left is the HIST2702 (City in History) exam on Tuesday which is worth 60% of the course, so i better get into some serious study for that one, but it's not really happening at the moment.

Worked till 8:30 last night and it … Read more →

COMP3804 Exam

Yesterday we had the all important COMP3804 exam. The entertainment just keeps on coming with this course.
(All prepare for another bitch and moan about COMP3804!!).

Firstly, the exam was due to start at 2:30pm. They finally let us into the exam room at 2:50 for us to start the exam just after 3. Thats over half an hour (and a quarter of the exam) late.

And they are lecturing us about time management?? I felt sorry for the poor students that might have had another exam barely 20mins after they stepped out of this one.

Secondly, which doubly pissed … Read more →

Queen’s Birthday and Poor England

Today should have been the first day of the exam block, but instead it had to be the Queen's Birthday public holiday. My first exam is the dreaded COMP3804 tomorrow.

The Euro 2004 football tournament of course kicked off on the weekend, and last night was the first blockbuster match: France vs. England. Well the pommy's thought that on 90mins that they had won the game 1-0, an ealier missed David Beckham penalty now seemed irrelevant. With only 2 mins of stoppage time to play, France punch in 2 goals both by Zinedine Zidane (in my opinion the best player … Read more →

The Drive-In

Last night Despina and I went to the drive-in! If you aren't aware, the only drive-in in all of south-east Queensland is the one at Yatala (half way down to the Gold Coast). WE drove down there last night, and after having dinner at the McDonald's at the 'Service Centre' at Yatala (The really huge BP), we went to the drive-in to see a double screening of The Day After Tomorrow (which should be Monday. lol I'm so lame) and Stuck On You. The movies for the both of us were $11 all up because we used a voucher … Read more →

Studying Begins

In the last few days i have begun studying for my exams.

After finishing off my last assignment on the weekend, Monday was mainly spent on collecting and printing a lot of garbage just to make sure i have everything i need to actually study (lecture notes, tuts, etc.). That took the majority of the day which was longer than i expected.

Today i began proper study on COMP3804. The more study i seem to do, the more i am not looking forward to the exam. I guess it's mainly because i have nearly no idea what to expect. Hopefully … Read more →

Last Teaching Week

This week was the last teaching week for Semester 1 2004. I really can't believe how fast it has gone. I think it was mainly the project that made it feal like just one big blur of a semester. Next week is of course SWOTVAC (as a side note i can't remember what that actually stands for...), and i still have one more assignment to hand in, which is the INFS3100 Assignment 4, which is on, ironically enough, designing a system of classification for my university assignments.

Of course i'm the middle of doing that right now, and thanks to … Read more →

The Big Day

Today was the dd-day (due date) for all the COMP3804 garbage due this semester (except for the exam). We got everything in ok (i think i got off easy yesterday/lastnight because i had to work till 10 last night, which i am a bit guilty about), and i think the demonstration went fine (although there was a nervous 30 or so seconds when the program wasn't responding probably because of lots of stress on the oracle server at uni at the time). The program itself is coming along quite nicely!

Now i've only got the INFS3100 assignment 4 to go … Read more →

Good Monday

Yesterday's Monday actually wasn't that bad. The reasons being that it was the last one I will have to go to this semester (yay!! no more 10-6!), and i recieved some pretty favourable assessment results.

First of all, I got 18.5/20 for my INFS3100 Assignment 3 (the one on classification systems where we had to go to 2 supermarkets and record shelf layouts and infer a system of classification). The tutor hands out prizes for the best assignments, and because of the poor lecture attendance all the people that got higher than me weren't present, so i got their prizes … Read more →

Jerked around

My group's COMP3804 demonstration is this coming week (along with everything else that is due). We had signed up to a demonstration time over 3 weeks ago, and yesterday the lecturer apparently called and said they've got a class on at that time and would we like to do it way earlier in the day or way later? And these are the people lecturing us on project and time management?

Even worse, for the exam we have coming up for the same subject, they expect us to do well after only giving us one tutorial question for each topic, and … Read more →