Final Year Project (FYP) is a step where all final year students in NTU must undertake, as part of the requirements to graduate with a degree. And I was no exception.
Terms like Finish Your Professor, Final Year Punishment, Find Your Partner, are amidst the many terms that I come across, and yes, I chuckled at these terms.
It was a trying year, doing my FYP, to say the least. For some reasons, whatever went wrong simply just went wrong.
I’ve lost count of the number of days I lost sleep over the project, the frustrations and tears that I cried during the project, trying to cope with my study load and the project, as well as rushing the report for submission.
Many thanks to my family, the boyfriend – Terence, as well as my friends for all the wonderful support and encouragement during the course of my project.
Though I didn’t really succeed in meeting all the objectives that I set out to, but I learnt a lot of lessons that classrooms can’t teach. And yes, it is these lessons that taught me a great deal on how to deal with other issues in life.
Now who says grades are the most important? There are other more important things in life than to grades.
It’s a countdown to the official ending of the final semester. 3 days more to go.
I am to feel excited, but somehow I don’t. I’m pretty nervous though.
A lot of thoughts is running through my head now, and I am pretty sure I have to slay this inner demon of mine. and yes, not to mention a bit of health problems that is dodging me at the moment. Will get all these sorted out in due time (Wednesday, 6th May that is)
5th May: Oral Presentation for my FYP. 1300 hours, Tutorial Room xx, where xx is the room number that I am supposed to be in.
So in the meantime, I am so going to flip my brain cells and get work done.
Its just one of the days where you wish you can have more sleep, but you can’t because of pressing matters. I gotta push on. 2 weeks more. Well, less than 2 weeks.
I will do a post on CodeIgniter (CI) Framework, on how it has helped me to build my project in less than 2 weeks. But I still trying to figure Python in it, so yeah.
It has been a lot of pain and frustration on my part as a programmer, trying to figure out the Zend Framework settings. I tried troubleshooting, and all I got was a puddle of pure mess. Perhaps I am not good enough to understand Zend Frameworks, though I appreciate the beauty of the Framework.
Fortunately, I discovered CodeIgniter, thanks to BoltClock. He introduced it to me, and within 30 mins, I was up and running the basic look and view of the site already. Needless to say, the forums and user guides are very through. It guided me through the tough bits that I hit.
Well, now that my teething problems are almost over, I guess its time to really rush in to complete this in 4 days.
Just submitted my FYP Report, and honestly, I feel I could have done a better job, but I guess its history. I did my best, though not the very best, but I hope to pass…
Now, on with my other assignments, as well as continuation of implementing my FYP. Yes, it doesn’t stop there… On hand, Distributed Computing assignment, Intelligent Agents, and Simulation and Modeling assignment. I just have to grit my teeth and bear with it I guess.
Nicole is currently being swamped with her Final Year Project as well as other assignments. Till she can breathe easier, the blog update rate will drop drastically. Though she finds reluctant to have fewer articles for the month of March, it is better that she concentrate on her FYP which is due in 2 weeks time.
She is also undergoing a period of tremendous amount of stress, and it’s a fine line between sanity and snapping. She is hoping she will be able to finish the project and submit it on time…
Meanwhile, Nicole wishes all the best to her fellow FYP mates too.
I am very sleep deprived. Logically, I should be sleeping, but I can’t. Loads of development work to do, and I will have to do something for my apparent lack of sleep.
More makeup to hide the flaws around the eyes? Well, I try not to… And yes, I have to rein in my temper a bit. My fuse gets shorter without enough sleep. Not a good thing at all. Tsk.
Coffee, Tiesto, DJ Eros will be my favourite companions through my countless burning midnight oil nights. Any friends wanna accompany me via MSN/Plurk? You are most welcome
Also today is the start of week 2. I feel stressed already.
