I feel more confident than I ever have before!

I’ve faced some challenges (Windows 10) in my classes and I’ve always had a classmate or groupmate to help me get back on track.

This NES Emulator group project I’ve been working on has been a challenge but my groupmates, especially Austin and Gevko, have been patiently working with me, hopping on Discord calls and pair programming with me. I had some difficulty setting up the environment and linter. I was on a Discord call with Gevko trying for a while to see what was the issue, and it came from being on Windows (Windows).

Getting back into Git has been refreshing and working with tests and linting has been as well. In true fashion, this feels like a culmination of all the classes I’ve had before and this is my real chance to use the information and skills I’ve obtained.

I get along with my groupmates and they are very patient with me. I just hope I am not putting any undue stress on anybody. I’m sure they would mention it if I was.

We’re doing this process iteratively and the pacing has been good for spacing out the work so it doesn’t get overwhelming with all of my other subjects. I am just very busy during the week so I have to make my contributions closer to or on the weekend but that hasn’t been an issue thus far.

I’m using JetBrains’ CLion now (free trial) and loving it. I know that true nerds can code in Neo Vim but I like a fancy IDE that helps me a little bit.

This class is well structured and I wish i could offer any constructive criticism but I fear that my mind is too focused on the project to try and find any fault with the system as a whole, i hope you understand.

As for the job hunt it is a slow start but i am very much eager and willing to start any kind of role whether it be part-time or an internship so I can focus on school as well.

As for methods on relieving stress and managing time? I believe I’ve put it into a class discussion somewhere but it’s just a difficult balance of starting just a little earlier on projects, making yourself work on them just a little longer each day, and taking the time to do the little things for your project or group. I pray I continue to follow my own advice.

Au revoir and thanks for reading!