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crazy weekend
May. 6th, 2002 07:24 pm[re-posted from DiaryLand]
Wow... more than a week since my last entry. A lot has happened.
The project was supposed to be due Friday night, but was extended to Sunday night, and then Monday night. We finished it in the wee hours of Monday morning (or so we thought). So I just had the final left. Somewhere the next couple of days I stopped at the half-priced book store to look for a copy of Ender's Game for a book exchange. I was going to stop in and then go down the street to Clothestime to do a little shopping -- just a half hour. Well, I didn't find Ender's Game, but I did read two other novels in their entirety while at the store. Half an hour turned into two and a half. Of course, I did not go clothes shopping. The first novel I picked up was a sweet, Christmas-themed love story along the lines of Miracle on 34th Street. The second was a science fiction book that I found thoughtful, if not exceedingly well written. I ended up buying the sci-fi book and intend to use it for the book exchange. As a bookworm with a sweet tooth, I would compare the first book to cotton candy, or maybe a candy cane, considering the setting: almost pure sugar. The second I would compare to store-bought chocolate cake: a little more flavor, but not a decadent treat.
Wednesday evening I was half-heartedly getting ready to take my final exam, when I received an email from a grader that our project did not pass nearly any of his test cases and our grade looked like a 15. I went to school to talk to him. Turns out it was one bug in a function that almost all the test cases called -- I don't know why it didn't show up when we did our own testing. He told me to debug and come back and see him afterward. So I took my final Thursday morning, and my partner and I debugged Thursday evening. Friday I went to see the grader again, and while most of the test cases now ran, he found more bugs. We fixed almost all of them, went back after a few hours, and let that be our final version. Had our final version been our initial version, we would have gotten a 95. As is, the prof decided to give us a 75, and I'm satisfied with that.
Saturday was very busy. I got up early in the morning to have my car inspected at the dealership. Then I took it to be washed and went to the bank, with a couple loads of laundry done in between. About lunchtime a woman stopped by to look at my desk and think about whether she wants to buy it. My friend/comp partner called and invited me to shop for rollerblades; that took far longer than I expected, but I now have a pretty blue pair of rollerblades. We came back to the apartment minutes before a man showed up to look at my bed and decide whether he wanted to buy it. (He decided against.) Then we all took off to meet with another friend to go see the new Spider Man movie. The showing we were trying to make was sold out, so we went out for dinner first. The movie was fairly good, I thought, but I was pretty tired by the time we got back.
I had been planning to go to New Orleans with one of my roommates for a couple days starting Sunday afternoon, but I changed my mind Saturday night, in a rather upsetting episode. I had a few important ideas pointed out to me along the way. Still not sure at this point if I'll be doing anything else special to celebrate graduation. Instead, I helped paint the inside of a house yesterday afternoon and talked to my brother for more than two hours last night, both of which were fun things to do.
Wow... more than a week since my last entry. A lot has happened.
The project was supposed to be due Friday night, but was extended to Sunday night, and then Monday night. We finished it in the wee hours of Monday morning (or so we thought). So I just had the final left. Somewhere the next couple of days I stopped at the half-priced book store to look for a copy of Ender's Game for a book exchange. I was going to stop in and then go down the street to Clothestime to do a little shopping -- just a half hour. Well, I didn't find Ender's Game, but I did read two other novels in their entirety while at the store. Half an hour turned into two and a half. Of course, I did not go clothes shopping. The first novel I picked up was a sweet, Christmas-themed love story along the lines of Miracle on 34th Street. The second was a science fiction book that I found thoughtful, if not exceedingly well written. I ended up buying the sci-fi book and intend to use it for the book exchange. As a bookworm with a sweet tooth, I would compare the first book to cotton candy, or maybe a candy cane, considering the setting: almost pure sugar. The second I would compare to store-bought chocolate cake: a little more flavor, but not a decadent treat.
Wednesday evening I was half-heartedly getting ready to take my final exam, when I received an email from a grader that our project did not pass nearly any of his test cases and our grade looked like a 15. I went to school to talk to him. Turns out it was one bug in a function that almost all the test cases called -- I don't know why it didn't show up when we did our own testing. He told me to debug and come back and see him afterward. So I took my final Thursday morning, and my partner and I debugged Thursday evening. Friday I went to see the grader again, and while most of the test cases now ran, he found more bugs. We fixed almost all of them, went back after a few hours, and let that be our final version. Had our final version been our initial version, we would have gotten a 95. As is, the prof decided to give us a 75, and I'm satisfied with that.
Saturday was very busy. I got up early in the morning to have my car inspected at the dealership. Then I took it to be washed and went to the bank, with a couple loads of laundry done in between. About lunchtime a woman stopped by to look at my desk and think about whether she wants to buy it. My friend/comp partner called and invited me to shop for rollerblades; that took far longer than I expected, but I now have a pretty blue pair of rollerblades. We came back to the apartment minutes before a man showed up to look at my bed and decide whether he wanted to buy it. (He decided against.) Then we all took off to meet with another friend to go see the new Spider Man movie. The showing we were trying to make was sold out, so we went out for dinner first. The movie was fairly good, I thought, but I was pretty tired by the time we got back.
I had been planning to go to New Orleans with one of my roommates for a couple days starting Sunday afternoon, but I changed my mind Saturday night, in a rather upsetting episode. I had a few important ideas pointed out to me along the way. Still not sure at this point if I'll be doing anything else special to celebrate graduation. Instead, I helped paint the inside of a house yesterday afternoon and talked to my brother for more than two hours last night, both of which were fun things to do.