Week 12: 11 Nov – 17 Nov

What did you do this past week?

This past week was very relaxing! It was great to have a breather week in the midst of a hectic semester. I didn’t have any assignments due this week (due to having a lot the previous week) and no events to plan so I spent most of the week not doing many productive activities. I ate a lot of food, watched The Farewell, attended a WiCS social, and went shopping! Unfortunately I got sick again (for the second time this semester) right after last week’s blog post so I tried taking advantage of this chill week to recover as quickly as possible. It was also a very chilly week so I spent a lot of time indoors. We also began working on phase 4 of the SWE project by refactoring a lot of the code in our repository as well as removing unused old files.

What’s in your way?

Now that my free week comes to an end, I need to get back into the work mindset I was in for most of the semester. I have the usual assignments due this coming week (Algorithms assignment and Computer Networks lab and SWE project work) so I need to get on those and stop procrastinating. Procrastination is a constant demon of mine I am consistently trying to battle.

What will you do next week?

This coming week, I will meet with my SWE group and we will work on (and hopefully finish most of) phase 4. I will also work on my Algorithms assignment and my Computer Networks lab. Basically, this coming week will be a typical schoolwork week.

What was your experience of inheritance?

I thought it was a good refresher. Inheritance is a topic I haven’t truly looked into since CS312 so seeing it again (and in Java!) jogged my memory. However, I would’ve liked to learn new content as well (such as something more relevant to software engineering, such as more SQL) instead of going over a topic that most people in the class had already learned in previous courses.

What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?

My pick-of-the-week is this article I stumbled upon on Medium. It’s a very long article I personally haven’t completely finished yet but based on the steps that I have read so far, the content seems to be well thought-out on how to control your phone rather than let your phone control you. I am also very much a victim of falling into the slippery rabbit-hole of spending hours upon hours on useless and mindless activities such as scrolling through Facebook and flipping between the same 3-4 social media apps. Hopefully if I follow some of the steps here it’ll help me curb my bad habits!