Week in Isolation 5.0

• What did you do this past week?

I had an exam on Thursday, so the earlier part of the week was focused on prepping for that. I found a partner for the next project, Life. Amazingly, my partner finished 8 out of 12 tests on Thursday, so that put us in a real good place for the remainder of the week. Hopefully, we can finish it before Friday.

• What’s in your way?

I really need to revisit the vector hackerranks and all the other material covered in class. I think Professor Downing has been crunched for time and we’ve breezed through a lot of material, stuff that is probably super critical for the exam. So I need to spend time going over the exercises and making sure I understand what is going.

Studying for the exam set me back in my other courses so the early part of next week also will be playing catch up.

• What will you do next week?

I will have to review some of the material I missed last week in all my classes and then begin wrapping up my projects and papers as we enter the final 2 weeks of this topsy-turvy semester. I hope my partner and I are able to finish Life well before the weekend. I also have a Algorithms assignment due on Tuesday. It is a busy 12 days coming up but I’m looking forward to getting in to it.

• What was your experience of allocator?

I enjoyed learning about it. Professor Downing builds on his concepts and ideas sequentially, so I feel like a lot of the material we have covered this semester is being put into use in our final implementations of vector, allocator and move amongst others. It has been a bit rushed, as we have one less lecture plus the lost week during Spring Break.

• What made you happy this week?

I was finally able to work on a side project as a breather this weekend and it really perked my mood up. I felt good about devoting time into stuff that is not school or work related.

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

I have been listening to a lot of podcasts and I rediscovered one I used to listen a lot to before – Reply All. I would recommend the episode – Long Distance. Quite mindblowing and a fun listen.