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Refreshing
Refreshing
I’ve been hopping around from idea to idea, experimenting with little bits of things again – not able to settle on any one thing – so I came back to my GitHub profile to see what repositories might catch my interest. I’d expected to go through my list of private repos, but I already have 3 good repos set public: Amulet, 3D-collisions, and Mandelbrot.
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End of November
Cheaters, cheaters everywhere
In Software Engineering class, we started another group project. And yet again, one of my team members decided to cheat. As far as I’m aware, no one else in the group knew about it. This time, the team member collaborated with someone in another group and directly copied that portion of the project from them. Our entire group received a 0 for the assignment. I went from a high A to a low B with just one assignment. And yet again, it appears that the cheater is getting away with just a poor grade. It seems I misunderstood what “zero tolerance” means. There are followup assignments yet to come and all I can do is hope that the cheater doesn’t try to cheat again since the penalty is apparently insignificant.
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End of October
Blame
This month was off to a bad start with another brand new experience – group academic dishonesty. In my Software Engineering course, we had been randomly assigned to groups as part of an “extreme programming” exercise, which would require us to schedule a time we were all available to collaborate as a group and then talk through some answers to questions about our experience. Most groups had two people, but mine had three, so, knowing it could be difficult to synchronize 3 schedules, I tried to coordinate a time for us to get together as soon as groups were assigned.
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End of September
New Responsibilities
September started off strong with my boss giving me some extra responsibility. I had been paranoid about getting dropped since I’m taking much longer on an issue than I originally anticipated thanks to all this technical debt, so it was nice to see she was willing to put some trust in me.
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End of August
Finishing School
I was finally able to pay off my bursar account now that I’m making decent income, and I’ve decided to continue pursuing my degree at OSU, online. I’ll probably need to drop my microbiology degree since that would require me to return in person, but if I don’t get rehired at GEA, then there’ll be nothing keeping me out of the state, so I’m waiting to see how things evolve.
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End of July
Making My Home
I have been at my new apartment for almost a month now. I paid the last of my dues and moved in on Friday, the 9th. I live on the third floor and about half an hour from work, which is close to my storage, so I’ve been gradually retrieving stored items each day I return from work.
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End of June
Homebase
Today, the 30th of this month, I was finally approved for an apartment! I’ll be paying more than I wanted to, but all the apartments in my desired range were income restricted and I make too much now.
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End of May
Getting Settled
Things haven’t really been what I expected. Normally I would expect to get up and running within the first week, but essentially the entire month was dedicated to allowing me to get settled in. Ideally I could complete a “good first issue” task on my first day, but there were several barriers to that. I’ve spent most of my time looking over code and combing through a variety of documents. It was getting so mind-numbing not doing anything that I took the initiative to start coordinating with the remote team and discussing refactoring to increase our agility by removing technical debt.
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End of April
Finally
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End of March
Recovering Avocados
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End of February
Au revoir, Avocados
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End of January
Pragmatic Programming
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End of December
Flexibility and Foreboding
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End of November
Fools Forgetting Failures
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End of October
Potentially Perennial Plants
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End of September
Wal-Mart Supports Covid
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End of August
Laundromat Losers
At my regular laundromat this month, I noticed two people who I’ve seen there before weren’t wearing masks indoors. I made a show of recording them, and when the guy asked me “Hey! Are you recording us?” I responded “No, why? Is that an issue? Because you’re not wearing a mask?” I can’t remember exactly how it proceeded from there, but I ended up calling Stillwater police to come enforce the mask mandate, assuming the business took it seriously, since they had the “mask required” signs plastered all over.
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End of July
Professional Programming Productivity
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End of June
Sars Safety
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End of May
Documentation
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End of April
Regular Reflection
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Old Speed Code Challenge
Today I decided to review and clean up a very early project.
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Happy New Year!
Well, it’s been quite a while since my last update. A lot has happened and I’ve learned a lot. It’s been a fairly good experience fixing up production code, but I’m definitely ready to do something more challenging.
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Overdue Update
It’s just about the middle of the Fall semester, and things are going great. This will probably be a longer post.
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End of Summer 2019 Classes
Well, it’s the day after my last exam and I feel so much better. Even after that crammed schedule, I’d like to study more Statistics to understand more about the derivations for all the curves.
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Statistics
I’m taking Engineering Statistics over the summer along with two other courses: Organization of Programming Languages and Social Issues in Computing. Today was the day of my second stat exam, which I ended up feeling good about.
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Group Project
The next project folder is called “Amulet”. This was a personal android port of a group project I lead in high school.
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Incomplete Projects
The first project folder on my list is something called “3D-collisions”.
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Hello, World!
This is the first post documenting my progress going through all my old programming projects since high school. Most of them are incomplete. I had a very bad habit of never finishing anything. As soon as the puzzle was solved and I knew what I needed to do to finish a program, I lost interest and moved onto something else.
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