Caged Bird

10:05pm - 13 June 2007 - 335 views - 2 Comments
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I’m as free a bird. A caged bird that is.

Had the last of my exams for this semester. Only had 2 exams to sit for this time, a seemingly light task to those not knowing how much more work we had to deliver beforehand. Though when compared to the assignments we had before, these exams are in fact pretty light. Light does not mean easy. Because it wasn’t. Not for the subject beyond the narrow mind that I have, at least. Writing answers for my Project Management exam paper was like trying to regurgitate my lunch – except I didn’t had any.

Today’s Mobile Web and Multimedia paper was acceptable. It was not particularly difficult, but it still had the challenge factor. Generally, not too bad.

After that, I when out for lunch with a couple of friends for a rather fancy lunch. I guessed they wanted to “celebrate” the end of our exams. But I was more than happy to tag along. There would be food. Which is pretty much all that is needed to convince me to follow.

- Fast Forward -

Now that things are settled down – exams are done and assignments are more or less done. It’s more or less done because it isn’t really done as in done done. It’s done, for now. I have another mega-assignment which is still in the process while we (okay… I ) speak. It started about… March? And ends in October. Yes that sounds like a long time but it isn’t really that long because everything else runs concurrently. Classes are as usual and no special breaks are given. Unlike some colleges I know, they have an entire semester off specially for them to work on the project.

Admittedly, we have quite a thorough system for monitoring this project across the project time span. Frequent meetings with our supervisors are mandatory, and advisors will monitor our work along with our supervisor. We have access to quite a few good digital libraries, ACM most notably. ACM subscription doesn’t come cheap, and the account is locked to my college’s IP so it’s only accessible there. A major inconvenience if you ask me, because I have the tendency to only be able to work at home. Good things don’t come easily so I’ll have to make do with it.

My holidays have pretty much officially started. But it doesn’t feel like one at all.