Wednesday, May 18, 2011
May 4
Rugby today we once again played in some terrible field conditions and I once again screwed up my hand. At least we won. It was domination from the first kick as our team went on to win by more that 20 points.
May 2
I came to class on this day and found that once again I had fallen behind the majority of the class in what I missed. No one seemed to have a very good foundation of what was going on to give me a general idea. I eventually got a basic idea from talking to people and self teaching though. I will try to catch up if other commitments give me time as I have been picking up much more work than usual this week.
Apr 29
I had rugby today, it was great to play a game as it had been too long, less than a week since my last game, and I couldn`t wait to get on the pitch and play. We lost, but it was very, very close. Both teams were covered in mud by the end of the game because the field was especially muddy. Also during the game the ball went into a puddle and it was not a pretty sight seeing about 10 guys fighting over a ball with muddy water splashing everywhere. The field after the game had way more mud than it had little patches of grass.
Apr 27
I went to class today to find it very empty, more so than usual, I found out that there was a field trip and as such there were maybe 10 people in class today. I caught up on the Linked Lists that I had missed today as my internet was acting weird all weekend for some annoying reason I could not find out. I`ll eventually do the Double at home.
Apr 21
Today we had a quest speaker, Jack Gao, who talked about all things University and his experiences in the life of a student at high school and at University. The questioning period lasted the whole period and was filled with topics of great interest. Some of the things that he talked about sounded quite interesting as I would love to experience the dorm life at University as everyone I`ve talked to has good things to say about it. Also the class schedule is something that is to my liking as I would love the odd day to sleep in nice and late. Unfortunately though the sleeping schedule he talked about would be very detrimental to me as I have found that I need at least 7 to 8 hours to be sufficiently rested and not grumpy the whole day. Lastly I don;t think that Waterloo would be the University of choice as their idea of fun and my own are pretty different.
Apr 20
Mr. Arkin was away again as such we continued to work on the IT projects today in class. Our choice the Thunderbolt was not too bad as information on it wasn`t that hard to come by. We decided that Tom would do the video, while I would do the HTML coding part. We finished what we could in class and then we finished up at home. I completed the code and I tried to make the site as pleasing to the eyes as possible. I then got Tom to post his video up on YouTube so I could embed the link into our site. As I saw this easier than sending me the video.
Apr 19
I was away sick today, it seems that endless hours in the cold and rain have some side effects, namely one hell of a cold. I found out from Tom that Mr. Arkin was away today as well and that old I.T. backgrounder project was the main project we needed to work on as it was due on Thursday. Good thing we know what we need to do to finish it.
Apr 18
The class got their tests back today and they all were very disappointed by their results. I ended up not being able to write this test as I missed Friday`s class, talk about a waste of study time. But no matter I ended up helping Tom with his answers that he got wrong. I had to leave early though as I had an appointment to get my hand x-rayed. Hopefully my finger isn`t broken.
Apr 15
This day didn't go as well as I liked. The rugby tournament that I had was delayed greatly because the ref either got lost or delayed on the subway. This caused all the games to be almost a hour behind and two whole hours by the end of the day. The games were fun but our team lost due to a heavy lack of experience. This being our first tournament as a group and first game for everyone on the team. Also my finger which I hurt in practice was acting up and hurt like hell all day. I ended up missing the test that I had spent time studying for because of the delay, and instead I went home to wash all the mud off my body.
Apr 14
Today was test review day. I was pleasantly surprised today to learn that cheat sheets, I mean "reference sheets", were allowed and I plan on using that to it's full effectiveness. We spent the whole class period in review mode in preparation for the test tomorrow. The test is supposed to be all on java so I'n not too worried about it but kind of apprehensive. I came out of the period feeling a little more relieved about the test as well.
Apr 13
The Node class took the whole class today for me to wrap my head around. For some annoying reason the whole implementation of it is not coming easy to me. Instead it seems like I am constantly fighting an uphill battle against the damn code. Also it was pink day, I don't have any pink (never have) and instead I was going to wear a shirt I have that is pretty beat up but a bleached red shirt that I own. In my haste to leave the house in the morning I forgot about it and instead grabbed the first shirt I saw, black I think.
Apr 12
The Node class was the hot topic in today's class with the Tester being given. I felt like some of the requirements needed basically went in one ear and out the other. Though I eventually got that back. The word test was also repeated quite frequently as there is going to be one on Friday. I hope that the topics on this test will be released soon so it will be easier to study.
Apr 11
Today in class we took a note to begin with on a new concept called Linked Lists. This ties into Data structures and had more algorithms. The concept wasn't very hard to understand but I was iffy on the implementation for a while. I feel that my grounding in this area is weaker that it should be, and I will address that as soon as possible. Everyone though was having a little difficulty at this stage I found and Mr. Arkin took some time to explain the process in detail.
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