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Programming Misadventures - Thursday, October 16, 2003
After my afternoon math discussion class today, I walked back to my dorm and did some math homework, then took a nap. When I woke up, I reminded myself that I had a computer project that I needed to finish and submit online by 9:00 pm. But I decided to keep working on math, being the kind of person who doesn't like to stop working on something until it's all done.
Around 6 o'clock, I decided that I really needed to get to my computer project. So I got to work on it, but at the end I had a somewhat serious problem I couldn't get rid of, so I jumped on AIM and talked to Kenny and he helped me sort it out. But I still needed to type out the report. By then it was past seven and I still hadn't eaten, so Sophonias and I hustled down to the Hedrick dining hall and swiped our cards to get in.
Only then did we realize that Hedrick was having a Japanese theme dinner, and that the place was consequently packed with three times as many people as there were chairs. The lines to get any sort of food whatsoever were unbearably long, and the 9 o'clock deadline was rapidly encroaching, so I stayed in the shortest line and got a bowl of Udon noodle soup, and then I went to the only thing that had no line, the dessert bar. I grabbed a few cookies and cornbread and found an empty seat and ate my meager dinner. Needless to say, it was a pretty sorry dinner. By then it was 8 o'clock, and I needed to hurry back and finish my project, so I grabbed 8 pieces of fruit (you're only supposed to take one fruit out of the building) and ran back to my room.
Then while my stomach was in agony, I hurriedly typed up the report, which consisted of recorded input and output to my program and some comments about any problems I encountered. At the bottom of the hour, I noticed that my program wasn't displaying significant figures exactly the way it was supposed to, so I frantically looked over my code and put in a few lines. Then the new code didn't work properly, so I had to change it a bit, and some more again after that. It was 8:55 when the code finally worked properly, so I quicky stuck all the project's files into a zip file and submitted it at 8:59, with one minute to spare. The moral of the story: don't procrastinate, and um, Udon soup is pretty unfilling, too.
Around 6 o'clock, I decided that I really needed to get to my computer project. So I got to work on it, but at the end I had a somewhat serious problem I couldn't get rid of, so I jumped on AIM and talked to Kenny and he helped me sort it out. But I still needed to type out the report. By then it was past seven and I still hadn't eaten, so Sophonias and I hustled down to the Hedrick dining hall and swiped our cards to get in.
Only then did we realize that Hedrick was having a Japanese theme dinner, and that the place was consequently packed with three times as many people as there were chairs. The lines to get any sort of food whatsoever were unbearably long, and the 9 o'clock deadline was rapidly encroaching, so I stayed in the shortest line and got a bowl of Udon noodle soup, and then I went to the only thing that had no line, the dessert bar. I grabbed a few cookies and cornbread and found an empty seat and ate my meager dinner. Needless to say, it was a pretty sorry dinner. By then it was 8 o'clock, and I needed to hurry back and finish my project, so I grabbed 8 pieces of fruit (you're only supposed to take one fruit out of the building) and ran back to my room.
Then while my stomach was in agony, I hurriedly typed up the report, which consisted of recorded input and output to my program and some comments about any problems I encountered. At the bottom of the hour, I noticed that my program wasn't displaying significant figures exactly the way it was supposed to, so I frantically looked over my code and put in a few lines. Then the new code didn't work properly, so I had to change it a bit, and some more again after that. It was 8:55 when the code finally worked properly, so I quicky stuck all the project's files into a zip file and submitted it at 8:59, with one minute to spare. The moral of the story: don't procrastinate, and um, Udon soup is pretty unfilling, too.