4 posts tagged “project”

My meeting with the professor overseeing my project yesterday went fairly well I thought. I really should have been keeping on top of things before so it didn't come down to the wire like this, but all in all it wasn't bad. He generally liked what I had done and just had a few suggestions for extra functionality to add which I'll try to stuff in over the weekend. It's going to be a fairly busy weekend/next couple days for working on stuff. He also told me I had a little buffer for getting things in if I needed to take it in order to get the project finished up correctly since grades don't absolutely need to be turned in until the end of May. I should be done next week or the week after at the absolute latest.

In other news, it looks like my degree evaluation has been completed finally and I meet all of the requirements for graduation assume I pass all of my courses this semester. So it looks like the end is in sight. Hopefully. Maybe.

Something will get screwed up, I know it...

Just some quick school updates in case anyone was interested. First, statistics. I ended up getting a 90 on that test I took last week, despite finishing about 30 minutes before everyone else. So that's a definite plus!

Also, I was finally able to get my project sponsor to acknowledge my presence (also mentioned in my post last week) which is another definite plus. I'm supposed to swing by his class on Tuesday and show him what I have done. Hopefully he likes it and doesn't make me totally redo it because that would mean one very, very long week for me next week, and I'd rather do more constructive things with my time.

So, as promised, a couple of quick school updates for you. I have some musical stuff that I need to write about too later if I remember. I've just been (again) too busy to post anything recently, so I've got a backlog of things that need discussing.

I had my third test last night in my statistics class. I think I did OK on it, but it was one of those situations where I finished the test approximately 30 minutes before everyone else. Normally, I'm a fast test taker anyway, so I'm probably the first person done. I just don't like being the first person to hand something in, so I usually hang out and recheck my work to make sure everything looks good. This time though, I kept checking and checking and checking and checking...so I'm really hoping everyone else was just slow and I didn't totally miss a question or 6.

One more to go and I'll be done with that class and, hopefully, classroom instruction as a whole. However, this project thing is another matter entirely. I e-mailed my advisor/project sponsor again requesting when his office hours were so that we could meet up and I can show him what I have done. But despite suggesting that we meet up early last week, he's yet to respond to ANY of my e-mails since then. Warning...mini-rant incoming. Take cover.

I think he's intentionally trying to make this as hard as he possibly can for me and it's starting to piss me off royally. I'm getting awfully tired of being jerked around by professors here. Even when I started working on this project and asked him how it generally worked, he didn't tell me anything as far as what was expected of me. I'm just flying blind here and hoping that whatever I get done with will meet his expectations, which it probably won't and then I'll be forced to stay back another semester here so I can do it the right way. If that happens I can assure you I'll be marching straight to the deans office because I'm getting tired of this red tape crap. I want out.

I've probably mentioned this previously but just to quickly recap...as part getting my degree in Computer Science, the school I attend requires that I complete a semester long, large project of some sort. Considering I hope to graduate soon(ish) I'm doing that project this semester. Or, trying to do that project this semester anyway. I'm basically doing a content management system that could be used for say, a Computer Science Department website.

The problem is I'm a bit behind schedule. Although I guess that's no surprise considering I have nearly 0 motivation to actually code this thing. I have a problem in that when I do programming, unless it's something I really care about, I have a very hard time working up the energy to actually do anything with it. And again, this has bit me in the butt. So now I'm a couple weeks behind where I thought I would be when I was planning out timeframes. But I've determined that if I can get what I need to get done this weekend (pretty much half of the upcoming events calander section, plus some of the user profile stuff like changing passwords and such) I'll be back on track as far as my expected completion date. So I'm planning on spending a signifigant portion of Sunday working on crap that I'd rather not work on. Fun!

This leads me back to something I think I posted up here about not being sure if I really wanted to spend my life developing software. I really enjoy working on stuff...for my own use, or to help out friends. But, if I don't care about a project it just becomes a chore. And more often than not, I end up not really caring. I keep getting this feeling that what I'm doing right now isn't what I should be spending my life on, but this feeling isn't telling me what it is that I should be doing. Just that it feels...wrong somehow. This came out talking to a friend the other night as well. I've really grown annoyed at just sitting in a chair all day in the same spot, day in and day out, doing the exact same things. It just really drags me down imaging that I'm going to be spending the rest of my working life doing pretty much just that. I'm having a very hard time looking into the future and seeing myself still doing this all the way down the road. I dunno. Maybe I'll figure it out sometime. There's gotta be something better out there.