This week was mostly uneventful project wise, it’s been a lot of discussion about direction, and doing research. Work however got crazy this week, which resulted in me neglecting some of my school work so this weekend was meant to be playing catch up on the things I haven’t been working on.
Friday comes around and I go to check the calendar to see what’s coming due. Two big stats assignments that I usually do one at a time on the same day by midnight… great. First I have to go back and watch the lectures I had to skip for work meetings. After a full day of grinding I make the deadline. Nice.
Saturday morning check the Operating Systems II calendar on it’s own site. Oh my god, lab3 is due by midnight? It’s been out for three weeks and they’re usually huge assignments that I knock out exercise by exercise. It’s going to be a close one. After sitting at my computer panic coding, not eating, not showering, not doing anything but slog through kernel code; from 11:00AM to 11:40PM, I’m close but haven’t finished. I don’t think I’m going to make it. In an act of desperate hope, I check the due date one last time hoping I misread. I did. It’s due Monday, 9 Nov, the course calendar for that class outlines the current day in blue which when I looked at it, said Lab 3 was due. What I didn’t notice until the wee hours of the night, was that the calendar doesn’t include the weekends and just highlights the next available entry. Rough day, but at least I made progress.
