pagsz's Journal: The Blitz

Man, has this been a long couple of months. The latter half of the semester is really dragging, and the work has been piling up like a son of a bitch. OK, so that last part is mostly my fault, I have a habit of putting things off. Still, it's been a hell of a ride.

It all started back in November with my second project for my CIS 370 course. The point of the project was to simulate different CPU scheduling algorithms. It was a whale of a time to write, let me tell you. It was a team project, so I had a partner working with me on it. Between November 13 and 14 (I believe, but around that time) we must have spent 16 hours staring at a friggin' computer screen. Man, was it fun. Hands down the biggest program I have ever written. It ended up being something like 17 pages of code. Admittedly, it was a bit bloated. I probably could have trimmed back a couple of pages if I had really wanted to, but I didn't. The damned thing worked, so I didn't really care if there was a little bit of redundant code in it.

The week of Thanksgiving I spent working on a project for my other CIS course, 360. I ended up finishing up a day late on it, so I get 90% credit. Damn my lazy ass! With that finished, it was time to focus on the paper.

I had a term paper due for the 370 course. Ten pages on the operating system of my choice. I chose Linux (the choice was made in September, the work began this past Thursday). With the paper due today, December 9, I had exactly 0 words written as of December 5. Another long day. Spent about eight hours on the Net, gathering information and stuffing whatever seemed relevant into my budding paper. Got 9 pages written that day. Finished up the last coupe of pages last night, and did a little bit of spit-and-polish this morning.

Oh, I almost forgot the third project for the 370 course. Also due today. I got fairly well into it as of Wednesday, so I should be able to polish it off today. Due today.

One more thing: I have a test today in my MTH 331 course. Probability. The probability stuff isn't that bad, but I've been struggling with the calculus. So, over the weekend I studied that.

Did I mention that during this period I've been working 35 hours a week on average? And a couple went over 40?

Anyway, this is the last week of classes. After finals next week, I get six weeks off from academia. Man, am I gonna need it. My frelling brain needs a rest.