I woke up at 8am yesterday, got dressed, sat down at my desk and got to work. Before I knew it, it was pitch black out 10 o’clock at night and I hadn’t eaten. This is fine.
Spent the bulk of the day working on stats homework, writing a probability calculator in R which I have decided is the worst ‘programming’ language ever invented. Arrays are indexed at 1, member fields and functions of their janky class implementations are accessed with a ‘$’, dots; which usually access member fields, actually are just interpreted as an arbitrary name, builtin functions have no naming convention consistency either; mixing camelCase, smashedtogetherfunctionnames, and their confusing dot.access.names(‘why?’).
Work in October dried up due to my primary client running out of budget for the quarter, sidelining several big upgrades I had in the works; and we were between contracts on another big client I was going to be added to. First week of school, old client pops up out of nowhere, an internal project finally gets some movement, new client starts on-boarding, and I get asked to build some packages for a repo and address some issues on their projects. Cool, but where was this energy last month.
Guess I should talk about the project, since I’m here. Got in touch with my group mates and we met. I’m feeling pretty good about my team. I’m a little scarred from my last nightmare group project I wrote 90% of the code for (confirmed by github analytics). These people seem very smart and proactive, so I’m going to do my best to keep up.
I emailed our sponsor as soon as the contact information was sent out, then again the next day, then my group mates emailed as well; only to wake up to an announcement from our professor saying the class isn’t being proactive enough and it’s unprofessional. Probably not talking about us specifically, but still. Since we haven’t been able to get a hold of our sponsor, and the project page is short and vague; my writing assignment may be a brain dump of speculative nonsense but you work with what you’ve got. Try not to get burned out.