Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Week 5 Day 3 in college

19/5
I remember myself being anxious, worried and scared yesterday morning. It was during the period when i knew that I am going to be half an hour for the project meeting! I felt irresponsible and selfish for being so late, and I started to have a flashback of the past in high school when i had a friend who really hated me for being late all the time, she would always criticize me for being late while showing me her red angry bird face, back then i didn't take it too hard, but yesterday as i looked back i felt a little guilty, because i do know that being late means i am not interested and i deem it less important than other things in my life which puts me in a bad light in front of others. So i started messaging my friends and apologizing to them in advance. But thankfully it turns out that i wasn't the only one being so late for the meeting, and the one who waited was, to my surprise, absolutely alright :)

After discussion we went for out Infocomm & Security lesson (which we have it for every Wednesday in this semester ). It was a lesson on Arduino Scratch. Pretty amazing stuff,  its basically software programming through the use of simple drag and drop components/blocks to construct the logic of the software we are creating! We got to have a little hands on experience on working with the arduino tools that contains LED lights and magnets, so what we did was we use Arduino scratch program to control the function of the tool such as setting a certain number of seconds inbetween the intervals of each time the tool light up / blink.  Or by using it to control the frequency and intervals of sound effects that are installed in the program.

Afterwards we had some mock test! I totally screwed it because I had never really went to try playing around, familiarizing the program and knowing exactly the purposes/functions of each components/blocks. My schoolmates however, all managed to do well, and later i finally figured out that they shared answer using whatsapp , but i believe majority did not depend solely on the answer shared by our schoolmate but already have some knowledge on it. To be honest, i have tried to peek through my smartphone whatsapp to look at the answer more clearly but unfortunately i was the last to finish the work again, so the lecturer was just right behind me waiting impatiently for me to hand up my work, and in my mind i was thinking : ' Oh crap this old fella won't stay away for a second!' Too bad he really didn't, so i handed up my work with the wrong solution!
I felt so pathetic afterwards, nonetheless at least i realized what I've went wrong with the program!

Afterwards I went to extra math class alone, but just as i reached there i found my other two classmates/friends ( who told me they're not coming for the extra math class ) sitting there as well because one of them was waiting for a friend who is also participating in this extra class. I was pretty happy that i have got accompany to study math ( Algebraic law of prepositions ) But the thing is one of them who wasn't did not actually offer to accompany me but did for her, it hurt me a little, but oh well i  don't really care, I am not that emotional but it sucked a tiny bit. The math was hard as hell, my friends and I struggled for minutes for one pathetic question that worth for probably around 7 marks only, then we later finally consulted the teacher I know who teaches for our extra math class (only) for help--- the teacher who would only teach in class when we initiate to ask for help but we only asked one or two questions, as for the rest of the other rather difficult questions, however, weren't asked because my friends thought that she isn't capable enough / has poor working attitude. I didn't care and asked her one more question, she wasn't that bad, she knows her stuff well just that she is, in my opinion, a bit lazy.

What i could have done better is to be more punctual and also realize the significance of revision even for ten minutes would matter, and that i should really avoid feeling like crap at not knowing what to do in a test. I will be looking forward to learning more from the different modules i'm taking.

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