1.5 assignments down another 1.5 to go

Well what can I say it's been a LONG month. I've barely had any time to myself so i haven't had the chance to update in a while. However I'm in uni now waiting for my lecture this morning to start and that'll be one of the piece of coursework in the title to this blog over. Got to do a demonstration of this system that we've coded (it's a group project but not unreliable members). However the only problem is the system doesn't actually work =S.

Well what can i say we tried to get an extension for the piece of coursework coz we had another major piece as well to do for the same day we gave valid reasons like i was struggling to get in coz of my ankle, my other mate had to look after his 2 yr old daughter, one of them had to work to pay bills and the final one was away on holiday. Well anyway the lecturer just turned around and said "no extension" so we said right well u may not get a finished system and well lets just say we kept true to our word the system isn't finished and it doesn't work. However we were told we can still pass the piece of coursework if we explain what we were GOING to do.

Other group project is due in tuesday (the system has to be complete) and quite frankly since i coded 75% of the code that makes the system work i've said i am NOT doing any more coding for the system since all that needs to be done now is to make an interface and connect it to the code that i've already written. Group project and again i'm still really the only one working on it (at least one of the members has done all the paper based work so i didn't have to worry about that). I've had to give the interface to one of the slackers who did the interface for the prototype. Well anyway he's looked at it and basically said "i dont know what to do" even though he did it for the actual prototype. He also said he spent 5 hours on it each night and is getting no where ... again though his best mate grassed him up and told me that he's used that excuse before and what he's actually done for them is nothing and what he did was play World of Warcraft for them 5 hours a night. We're thinking about docking his mark by 25% however we need to discuss this as a group and since he's not coming in it's impossible to do this. Soooo we are going to try and get the entire group onto msn tonight to discuss it (last resort really). We're going to dock the guys mark because of the fact that he hasn't done this task it means that we've had to do a really bad technical documentation and user guide for our system so we've lost marks there and also we will barely have any time to compile the system either. However there is still a high chance that we will pass the module if this isn't done. Our tutor said it is extremely hard to fail this module.

Another thing that happened we were having a group meeting with our tutor to discuss the mark alocations between the group. 2 members didn't show up so EVERYONE in the groups individual marks for this section of the course got docked so that we all got 0% in it. Now to be honest i think this is a bit unfair since the individuals have to suffer for people not turning up. However since they had given us the marks already that they were going to give people it was a good thing since we gained some of the marks back. Then he decided to give us ALL the marks back because we had a good detailed disscussion about the marks given and that we'd been fair about it and judged with 1s and 2s (lowest marks) and then the leader had gotten given the option of rejecting some marks that he had gotten that were 1s and he accepted them so he gained the rest of the marks that we'd lost back ... was surprized our tutor wasnt the git he usually is (is putting that VERY politely).

The final assignment that needs to be done is one where we've been given a picture of some fruit and we have to make a program to count the amount of each type of fruit/veg there is in the picture ... haven't even started that yet gonna start it next week.

Anywy i've just looked at the time so i'd best finish up here since my lecturer will arrive in a couple of mins time (i'm seriously just in uni for 15 mins)
See ya next time
OWA

It's alive, It's Alive, IT'S ALIVE!!!!! ... nopeit died again

Damn this stupid laptop it's uselss it keeps dying on me :'(. Wouldn't care except i'm trying to do some work so i'm having to save like every 5 seconds. It's coz the cable at the back of the laptop keeps getting knocked and the battery in this thing lasts less than a minute (from full charge) without being connected to the mains. Seriously this is like the 10th time i've had to boot the damn thing up.

Heh seems everytime i'm blogging i'm complaining about one thing or another. Must be getting irritable in my old age ... either that or it's the stress. Heh sounds aweful doesn't it i'm on holiday and i'm stressed out of hell. Seriously i'm actually going into UNI tommorow to do some work ... ugh stupid coursework. Fed up of it and just want this year to be over now. To be honest with my personal tutor i want my final year to be over now ... that's how run down i am.

Anyway enough of my complaining. What's been going on in the life of me recently. Nothing much to be honest. I've been doing coursework. Got one piece finished and sent it through that plagerism site it came back with 5% copied off other people and that was all from students in places like scotland so i dont think i can get done for either plagerism or collusion :D. Anyway once that was handed in i felt the relief wash over me and i instantly fell asleep (Was only awake because of adrenaline). I pretty much have been catching up on missed sleep over the past few days.

Had family around over the weekend. IT was good to see my cousin and her baby since it's not often that i see them (about 1-2 times a year). Anyway we went of to Kielder for the day and went around the resovoir. Well anyway after they left i've pretty much been playing a few games that i've not been able to play because of all the damn coursework, watching DVDs and sleeping ... ah yes i remember why i like sleep so much now. Not looking forward to going back to uni since i still have something like 3 pieces of coursework due. Robotics where i've got to get a program that we all hate to count how many piece of fruit there are in a picture and say how many pieces of different types of fruit there is, got to write a program with a group of people in a programming language called perl and the program has got to work as a simple search engine by looking up the results given by different search engines (e.g. google) and then compare the results and filter out any repeats. The final piece which i'm sure i'm going to have to resit because of some of the other members of the group is the bloody group project on horses. Quite frankly at this point i couldn't care about it anymore i just want to pass it (even if it's a slim pass) just so i dont have to resit it next year. Thing is some of the other members of my group are actually quitting uni next year because they are fed up of our tutor (cvant blame them i am as well ... fed up not quitting) and they quite frankly dont give a doggy doodoo whether or not they pass at all in any of their modules and have just stopped going to lectres altogether. I am just fed up of it i dont see why i should have to resit because some people can't be bothered to do their share of the work. Our tutor has told us if we dont get the system to do ALL of the reasoning (9 sections each with about 500 possible outputs and we've got to code each output which takes roughly 15 mins each) and get it into an executable we instantly fail the module even the people who do their share of the work. So it's a bit unfair that i seem to be left pulling my share of the work and some of the others aren't. Decided i'm gonig to get my other mates who are working with me on it but dont know how to do the programing in tommorow and tell them how to do it and get it done over the hols in our own time. If we're going to fail i want at least a chance of passing (no matter how slim it is). Seriously just fed up of uni at the moment i'm glad i'm on holiday but it doesn't seem like i'm going to get very much of it to myself.

Anyway i've rambled on for too long and i'm sure you're all sick of hearing me moan so i'll try and be more positive next time.
OWA

The end is near

Well it's been a stressful day, nearly over at least. Going to write up this quick blog and then get started on a 2000 essay on Software Project Management (so booooring) due in friday. Well today it's been alright. Had a meeting with tutor today about our group project and SURPRIZINGLY he seemed ok about it. He told us that he could see 1 of 2 possible outcomes for our team. 1) we pass with reasonable marks 2) we fail completely. Probably does help we've had a technical problem that we've been unable to solve since October ... believe me we've tried we've decided we're going to ask one of the lvl 3 students to help us with it ... just got to find one first. After the session he came along and we talked (or rather he talked and i was thinking oh god shut up and let me go) to me about martial arts ... he even said "robin is probably learning martial arts so he can break his personal tutor's neck" (meaning him) at which i was thinking don't tempt me. THAT is how much i hate him. Again i wouldn't ... but i can dream.

Anyway I have also finished one of my modules today. Had an exam for it and quite frankly i was pooping myself over it because i had only managed to get through half of the material i had needed to get through for it with one hour before the exam. Luckily all the stuff i revised in that hour didn't really come up. It was all questions like explain this very simple piece of code or describe what this diagram means. Ok there were a few questions i wasn't certain of but since it was all multiple choice there is a 1/4 chance that i've got them right ... pure dumb luck if i have.

So my plans for the rest of this week are to get this essay written up for thursday morning since it needs to go through some wierd thing that checks for plagerism and if you don't actually hand in the proof that you've done this your mark automattically gets capped at 40% even if it's the best essay in the world. Kinda depressing really.

Anyway if i dont start this essay now i'm never gonna get it done on time. Sooooo until next time. Chiao
OWA

Sorry...

I know i have been a long time in posting heh must be a record. Anyway life with me is pretty boring at the moment. Not been doing that much lately ... but then again i've been in no shape to actually do anything since i've torn the ligaments in my ankle.

Well if i havent already told you you're probably wondering how i did this. I did this by trying to catch a train and jumping one too many steps when the train was at the station ... probably wouldn't help that i'd have a couple of pints beforehand though.

Now it's pretty ironic since i do aikido that you'd have thought i'd have done it through that not catching a train. Anyway i'm on crutches for the next 6 weeks.

In other news i bought FF12 the other week and since i've had so much coursework on my hands that i've not had that much time to play it. It's really annoying me since it's right in front of me most the time and i just dont have enough hours in the day.

One thing that has really annoyed me recently is while doing a group project for a client in uni my group totally let me down. Well not the entire group just one member. We have to design a knowledge based system to diagnose problems with horses through physio therapy. Wel anyway apart from the workload being absolutely rediculous i did my share of the work and i asked this group member to teach the rest of the group how to work the program we were using and get as much done as possible cause i knew it wouldn't get done on time. In fact we dont even think our tutor read through the invitation tot ender before he gave it to us. Well anyway this group memeber said he would do this for me and i find out on the actual day that the work s due that he's done absolutely nothing. When i asked anoter group memeber whether he had taught them how to use the system they hadn't even heard of the idea being mentioned. So as you can imagine i'm not ver impressed with him. Our tutor said to us basically "You're all going to fail this module now get lost" (in a polite nutshell). I'm just thankful that I wasn't in with a badly hurt ankle (torn ligaments)

Mind you everyone on my course hates this guy. He's just not a very nice man (putting it very politely). He uses bullying techniques to try and get us to do things. Quite frankly nearly everyone on our course is either thinking of dropping out or is dropping out, because of him. Most of them say they just want to smack him one ... so tempting i wont but it's so tempting at times.

Anyway that's pretty much every that's happened to me recently that's worth talking about.
Til next time
OWA

I ain't afraid of roller coaters no more

Well i've just got back from being at the beach with a few mates. It was a good time until the lift back ... all i can say is i should have gotten in aidan's car cause temple's driving makes a roller coaster look tame. Seriously i was clinging on for dear life at the speed he goes round corners. *is still shaking now* Next time i'm walking i think ... probably safer. Well anyway apart from that the sea was freezing too. Oh well spose i did make it back in one piece in the end tho.

Oh YAY looking forward to tommorow night as well i have a manga sale that i'm going to ... probably spend too much on the stuff like i did last time. But then again it's a good time even if i werent going to buy anything to be honest since they usually do a quiz as well as sell the stuff. Just gotta decide what i want to buy now lol

It's been a while

Right well it's been a while since i've been here ... completely forgotten what my old account was so (yup username and password lol). Oh well anyway i'm in a good mood today since i just got my results for my first year of uni today ... lets just say i've gotten around 73% or something altogether with results from each module varying from 91% down to 61%.

Well anyway over the past year my swedish has greatly improved ... still can't speak it fluently tho, and i'm hoping to continue to improve ... it's just too bad my tutor has moved and i havent spoken to her in ages either. Ah well i'm sure that'll sort itself out soon enough.

Things that are happening in my life at the moment ... well like the title of my blog says pretty much nothing. I have some half filled in application forms (yeah it's been over a year and i'm still thinking about just getting the job lol). Other than that i have a few games for my PS2 that i'm obsessively playing coz they are so addictive and the story in them is just WOW lol.

Anyway i'm just gonna go let everyone know i'm back now lol.