SELF, FYP, etc.

Goooood morning world!!!

Okay, my part-time job here at SELF is the best part-time job evvvvaaarr. Because..apparently I can blog, surf the net, chat with MK, read the smorgasbord of books, magazines, and journals here; watch movies because we have quite a collection of CD's and DVD's, etc. I like it here because it's like a library, and if ever I'd be stuck anywhere (apart from being stranded in a tropical, white-sand beach island with MK), I'd like to be stuck in a library especially one with a Sidney Sheldon collection.

The first few weeks were stressful for me though. Everything's new, and it seemed like I had a million and one things to remember. Plus, I had to juggle it with the hell of a design project we had to do, thus resulting to me not doing my job properly, being scolded, and bawling my eyes out twice the first month. Hee!! But everything is more or less 'stable' now.

So now, my life revolves around FYP (final year project), SELF (my part-time job), and the two graduate school electives I have. Yeah, for my classes this sem, my classmates are Masters or PhD students, and there are only a handful of undergrads like me. In a way that's good because those 'oldies' (muahahahaa) inject a whole new perspective to the learning experience which I wouldn't have had a chance to expererience if I were just with mere undergrads with no knowledge of the happenings in the outside adult working world. But sometimes - no, most of the time, I feel disadvantaged because they know a lot of things they'd gathered from being more experienced, and well the grading system is based on a curve so I'm afraid they'd skew it to my disadvantage. Oh well, it's what you actually learn that really counts, plus the added benefit of getting to know some people who are already up there.

MY FYP...I love it and I hate it. In Friendster terms, the status of our relationship is It's complicated. Oh btw, I don't have a Friendster account anymore. ANYHOO. I've been seeing a lot of my FYP supervisor lately. As in like, everyday of my life I see her. My official schedule in doing my FYP is Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and most especially Friday...which is wholly reserved for FYP alone. But this Tuesday I had to do some sand sieving (which I have to re-do later), so I still went to the lab. Friday is a marathon for all the experiments and analyses, but I do stuff in advance because according to my supervisor, If not, Saturday morning also cannot finish!.

But I'm really glad I started early with my FYP. I've been doing my experiments and data-gathering for a few weeks now, and I'm getting the hang of things already. I really want to finish the bulk of my FYP (like, 75%) by end of December, so I won't have to cram during my final semester.

Okies time's up. I have to go sand-sieving again.