Saturday, 28 October 2006

rocky journey on mars

seriously, i have no idea how i managed to survive last week torture... i dont think i'm being kua zhang to say that every minute of my life was spent on assignment and MATLAB.

the most tormenting one was this Aircraft Performace and Stability assignment, where me and one other fren were required to 'design a utilitarian glider capable of being launched from a set of rails on planet Mars to carry out scientific imaging of the ground.' it wasnt hard to get the design out... the hardest bit was the use of MATLAB to simulate the flight path.

day and night i was working on the code. since last weekend i didnt get much sleep, and for more than once i was awaken by nightmares where i saw myself screwing up the codes! wtf...i dont usually get nightmares... i must have been very tensed up, considering i had so much work in hand but so little time.

many hours were spent debugging the code, and u can be sure i had a pretty hard time doing it with my near-dead brain cells... here are some paths that i thought were pretty amusing... imagine the NASA use my design and got this flying in MARS... ha!





well... at the end of the day, i got the code and assignment sorted out but at the expense a test which i fair pretty badly. but luckily (or mayb not), i can forfeit the test marks if i do well for the exam (finger crossed).

next week is the assessment-free-week... a week of break before the exams. although it's called assessment-free week, but i still got lab report due. dont ask me why... that's the way it is. if i want the mark, i'll have to do it, zero otherwise.

现实是残酷的

the next two weeks are critical time... time to catch up and pia for the exam! and i believe a lot of other things and people will be 忽略ed. my advance apologies.

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