Semester 1 Summary

This week was a fair bit slower then the preivious few weeks because all my other units assignments were in and i used this to justify the slacking off in those subjects i did. Although the other subjects were done i still had sequence diagrams that i finished off on monday night and a couple of other little things that were due tuesday for IE. This was good and because my normal tuesday class was not on there was a screening of our game levels so after going to the meeting for the first 1/2 hr i went and saw how badly my level looked in comparison to most others. Then it was back to the meeting and an ie seminar before heading off for a client meeting. The client meeting went ok although i dont think they understand completly about the issues that will arise in the database if it is constructed the way they want.
Wednesday brought me y programming interview which i was very happy to get over and done with and im quite pleased with my marks in it so far, and so long as i find a way to pass the exam i will be set for finishing with java for quite a while (hopefully). Thursday gave us some Sys Int, which went ok i guess i was starting to suffer from the cold i picked up on tuesday and so that made everything anoying, but i did get some good info on how toanswer the exam questons so that helps.
Friday mum and dad were going away for a reunion for dads uni or something about that, i dont really ask too many questions. Although this ment a very early morning for me, i went to the airport so i would have dads car for teh weekend and to save on parking. So the rest of the day was quite a waste with me cathing up on the sleep i missed oout on by getting up so early. In the evening i went out for a short while just to say a quick hello to those that were out and happy birthday to chloe cause i dont see her hat often. Then it was back home and eventually off to sleep. Saturday i really slacked off, because my cold had mde me feel like absolute s**t, so all i did on saturday was kick around home staying warm and relaxing. This was a great idea cause once i got up on sunday i felt heaps better and my cold is nearly gone, which made me feel sort of motivated and i got most of what i wanted done before it as off to the airport to pick up mum and dad.


SEMESTER SUMMARY


Dream Resolutions
We have a very good team which works together really well, and quite often. I think we have nearly made the meeting room our own when we dont have classes and this is good because we know where people are normally when they dont have class so we can always ask questions of each other.

Deliverables
These were done really well and i have to hand it to the documenters for getting everyones work collated together and looking correct as quickly as they do. Ben leads by example and always has more then the rest of us to do, which gives no room for being late or of a low standard. This has really pushed me because it means i have to do more work more often then all my previous subjects, which consisted of a crusie period followed by a busy period and a short cruise before the final busy period and then the lead up to exams. Then theres Dze who gets his tasks done so quickly, im just always stunned he gets em done so quick. The rest of the team get there task done on time everytime and this really has pushed me to get mine all in on time (except 1, when my net was down so that 1 was about 1hr late).

Blogs
I have to hand it to the rest of the team they really get into blogging. Ive never liked it although after a few weeks its sort of grown on me and i found it best just to start typing about the week and let it flow, sometimes it gets hard other times its really easy. You can just see in the blog of the week winners how well our team has done, 4/6 with ben winning it twice. So you can see when i actually had a good one it was never going to be easy to win with almost the entire team nominated each week and then there was the other teams that might have members that could win it.

In summary working on a unit such as this with task due continuosly (with the outcome affecting my team not just me) i have had to work a lot harder and more often to allow me to meet my deadlines (and i need to stay away from distractions at uni, by portal and psp from my uni bag), i would like to say this was a quick lesson to learn but it wasent and i just hope i can take it over to my other subjects next semester and my exam preperation this semester. If i can keep my work rate up where it was the past 2-3 weeks (these weeks i know i improved in, and i think theres still some room to go) i know i will bring my marks up next semester and hopefully help me through these exams.