Recess Week Report

This entry is posted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the weekly blog.

Objective
The main purpose of this entry is to release some stress due to FYP. This entry will cover random topics including FYP report, triple room sharing, and daily activities. The topics are organized in a chronological form.

Background
Recess week has never been so terrifying before. With FYP report to be submitted by early March, the student has no choice but to dip her head to report writing every day. Additional pressure was created from triple assignments that need to be completed in one month time. The assignments came from the three final PE subjects that the student took for her final semester.

Resources
A 3 years old computer that hangs occasionally and shows a virtual memory low warning.

Progress of report in a week
Monday: Student was notified that she won a $10 Gelare voucher, which was to be collected on 12pm – 1pm. Hence, the student started the day mugging in library such that she wont miss the collection time. Upon doing her report in library, student realized that she needed to take references from books, which she left nicely in her room. In the end, student spent most of the time playing fluff friends at library level 2.

Tuesday: Student attended Pre-graduation seminar at 10.30 in ADM building. Despite being scheduled to finish at 12.30, the event dragged until 1.30. After a sumptuous lunch, student rush to lab to give a demo to supervisor. However, the demo was cancelled by supervisor due to the unforeseen circumstances. Demo is to be rescheduled in the following week. Student felt disappointed and relieved at the same time, as she hasn’t really prepared yet for the demo. After the rush, student went to Nanyang Market to buy some fruits. Time showed 3pm when she actually started to open up her report.

Wednesday: Student wake up at 10 am and decided to do report at hostel room. The student carelessly forgot her daily coffee dosage, causing the lack of concentration and minimum result.

Thursday: Student went to library at 1pm. After typing report until 5.30, student went to have a great steamboat at can A. Student wanted to extend her thanks to It Land, who has been preparing for the food and utensils. Student had a great time until 8 pm. Reaching back room, student took 4 hours to start focusing on report. Student shutdown the computer only after it hanged and went to sleep at 4.30 am. Student suspected that leap day isn’t a good day for her.

Friday, the leap day: Student woke up at 11.30 and not in her best condition. After lunch, student notice an email about triple room sharing showrooms. Being a good resident, student decided to go and voiced out her opinion. Observation showed that the room isn’t really fit for 3 people. Despite the 3 people, the fan was changed to a smaller fan to avoid risking people sleeping at the upper bed. That will increase the temperature by another 50%, after the 50% increase due to the 3 people sharing O2. Figure 1 and Figure 2 below showed the triple sharing room of hall 13, while figure 3 and figure 4 depicted the triple sharing room of hall 14.


Figure 1: Hall 13 Triple Sharing Room - Right


Figure 2: Hall 13 Triple Sharing Room - Left


Figure 3: Hall 14 Triple Sharing Room - Right

Figure 4: Hall 14 Triple Sharing Room - Left

Student suddenly felt happy for being a final year student.

During viewing, one person said hi to the student. However, student totally had no idea where she had met the pretty girl. Student just stared blankly, and the pretty girl said to her friend “I’m Agnes friend, but I think she didn’t remember me. Long time already, since FOA” Student felt so ashamed but didn’t do anything.. and pretended to examine the room. Back from the viewing, student felt dizzy and hence decided to take a nap. Student suspects that it was due to too much mugging and has been rarely exposed to either sunlight or sport. Student wanted to extend her sorry to one of her friend, who she left when he needed help.

After nap, student continued with the report. Student felt happy when she was informed by fluff friends that she won special prize. However, student regretted selling the prize at the low rate. The price increases to 2 folds on the next day. At the same day, student reached the stage 3 of scratch and win. Student regretted selling Russell doll as well, which is a win-only price. Based from this experience, student would learn not to act on sudden impulse again. Student slept at 3am, after crashing the lab’s computer.

Saturday: Student wake up at 9 to go to toilet, and continued sleeping until 10.30. After shower, student started to type blog. Stopped at 11.30 for lunch, then continued until now. Time is showing 1 pm of the new month, and student has no mood to start anything.

Problem and solutions
The report development poses several challenges as follow:
- The low motivation. Being ridiculously unfamiliar with the experiment done this year, student got a great pressure in finding the right term to describe something.
- The high temptation. Upon searching on the right term, student will spent 5% of the time finding an answer in internet, 5% feeling frustrated, and 90% playing facebook and reading blog.

Conclusion and future works
Whoever said that FYP report can be done in 2 weeks, didn’t take into account the brain of normal people. Based from the experiment, student realized that 1 month was the shortest time to finish a report, assuming that the report started from scratch. For any future works, student urges people to always keep a simple logbook of what have been done throughout the year. It will help a lot in the report writing process.

Student wish everyone, including herself, all the best in report struggling.

The student,
Erlin.D

APPENDIX A: Supplement to help surviving in FYP Report

Jumbo Sausage @ Can 13 - $4.5