Feeling on top of things...

...for once! Had a pretty rollercoaster couple of weeks, assessment wise - in addition to the usual collection of weekly assignments and worksheets I had a big assignment each for MINE2105 and COMP2303, both due on the same day. 

THEN
I really mismanaged my time with them, so in the week leading up to it I was frantically trying to do both at once (which usually resulted in me freaking out and deciding to just take the night off to de-stress).  I was extremely lucky in that, through technical problems (I assume - I didn't question too closely!) we got extensions, and I eventually managed to hand in pretty good assignments.

But I don't want to rely on luck in the future.

COMP2303: I'd done about 80% of the assignment easily, soon after we got it, so I put it off thinking "oh the rest of it's just ironing out some bugs, adding in a couple of features, cleaning up my style, it'll be easy".  Problem: overconfidence

MINE2105: I'd done about 20% of the assignment, the really easy parts like drawing up the title page and bibliography... and had no idea where to even start.  Well, that's a lie - I knew what to do, and I'd done a fair bit of it, but I had no idea what level of info we had to provide, and whether I was even close to what I was supposed to do.  Problem: skipping pracs and not asking for help

So if anyone's reading this - don't skip pracs when you don't know what you're doing, and don't get overconfident!

NOW
Back up to speed, although I fear I'm getting a little overconfident again with COMP2303 assignment 2.  I absolutely love this subject again.  When we first got the assignment I spent about 5 minutes playing around with it and freaked out, thinking it was impossible.  Spent just yesterday afternoon on it and I've already solved half of it!  Mustn't forget about part 2 though...

Anyway though, while I was busy being scared and putting off assignment 2, I've been working busily on all my little assignments, so I'm fully up to date on MATH1061 assignments, and I'm feeling pretty confident for the ENGG1010 statics exam (which is still a month away...).  Yay for productive procrastination!

So I'm pretty happy with where I am now.  Which is good, because I have a pretty busy weekend socially (including our Robogals minion-training day!) so not having to worry about COMP2303 will take a load off my mind.