13 Hours Straight…
April 21st, 2004 | by john |For the past 13 hours, I’ve been working on school work for two different classes.
1. Databases
It’s an elective I chose because I thought I knew databases and it would be relatively easy. Wrong. The project has taken forever to complete (it felt like it anyway) and after my last class today, I thought our group meeting was supposed to be just testing out our project to see if it worked right for the demo the next day (today technically). I expected to be at the lab for about an hour… I was there 8 hours take away about an hour we took to grab dinner together. Talk about debugging like crazy on the fly…
2. Circuits
I got back from the project meeting at midnight. I started working on our last optional take-home quiz. Took me 5 hours straight to get it done… and it’s only two questions with two parts for each question. You should see some of the freaking number conversions I have to do to get to a point at which point I can start working on pulling out an answer. The algebra on the second question was just like take a complex polynomial that has fractions of fractions of an imaginary number and multiply that by another complex polynomial that looks similar to the previous. Then the entire thing becomes a gigantic fraction itself in which I have to try to simplify the equation further. This requiring me to multiply the entire thing by the crazy denominator which is also a complex polynomial that has fractions.
I sleep for 3 hours now before I have to turn in the crazy take-home quiz, do a code-off, take an oral exam, and demo the databases project to a TA for a grade that will ultimately be 10 times less than it really should be because the TA has a bad friggin’ day.
Wish me luck. 
