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Ah, the end of week 12. Finally, no more university lectures for this semester. I still have assignments and project work to do, but I’ll be doing them from home. This past week has been really hectic, and quite eventful. I’ve enjoyed parts of it, though. I’ll get right into it.

Monday: Proposal presentation day. It was probably one of my better days this week. I went into university wearing some good clothes (nothing too exciting, just a good shirt, pants and a jacket). I’d planned to meet up with my group from about 1pm, so between when I got into university and then I worked on cleaning up the presentation from comments I’d received then continued with my final SPI essay. By the time my group got there, I’d gotten a decent amount of my SPI done and fixed most of the problems my group had with the slides. At that point, we decided we should test out the slideshow and have a run through of the presentation (or, more like, have me present to the rest of my group). Surprisingly, I got through that in under 5 minutes! Admittedly, I spoke really fast, but I still got within the limit. As it got closer to 2pm, we went down to the lecture theatre to watch the first session worth of groups do their presentations. Some of them were pretty good. At 3pm, after the first session had finished theirs, we had our presentation. We(/I) did really well! I went slower than in the practice with my group before 2, and still got within the time limit. After that, we just watched the other groups. Some were pretty decent. At the end of the lecture time, I had a quick break-up with the group, just to say I’ve enjoyed working with them and good luck into the future. After that, I chatted with one of my friends (he had his presentation in the same session as my group) while walking to the summary lecture for SPI. That lecture was kind of interesting.

Tuesday: Had to be up early this week, since my project group had a meeting with our client. When we all got there, we discussed some things that we could do for the next prototype, as well as into the future. We had some pretty good ideas, if I say so myself. The client meeting went really well! The client seemed to really like what we’d come up with for the prototype. He even seemed to be using it to check the connectivity of some of the “example” assets he’d given us (we found out they’re for an upcoming project). That was pretty cool. After the meeting, my friend and I went to the BESE lab and chatted for a bit. After about half an hour, we decided we’d start up the Minecraft server and play that for a bit. Unfortunately, I’ve run out of internet quota at university so I had to turn off online mode for the server and play as the generic “Player”. It was pretty fun, though. Within 2 hours, we found a zombie spawner and set up an XP grinder next to it. That was pretty cool. After that, we just worked on assignments until deciding to go home at our respective times.

Wednesday: I spent most of Wednesday working in the BESE lab, although I also got out for a bit to catch up with a friend. That was pretty good, chatting with them while working on stuff. I got work done on both my CV assignment as well as my SPI essay. For the most part I worked on my SPI essay, getting that completed. Which I nearly did before leaving! At that point, I had around only 145 words left before hitting the lower bound on the word count. I got that done at home.

Thursday: It was pretty much like Wednesday, in that I spent all of the day in the BESE lab working on assignments. For the most part, all I had left to do as part of the SPI was getting my references and reflection done. Happily, I did that within the first 2-3 hours of the day. Unfortunately, I couldn’t submit it because of no access to the internet – I couldn’t get to the TurnItIn system to do the plagiarism check submission. For the rest of the day, I started working on the final 4 reflections for EM.

Friday: Last early morning for the semester! The EM lecture in the morning was the “submission” for the new skill assignment. Annoyingly, I had to do my submission twice (the lecturer didn’t like the first one). She didn’t even like the second submission, but still decided to check me off. After that, I just went to the BESE lab to work on my CV assignment. After spending nearly 4 hours on it (and getting close to nowhere), I decided to go home.

That ends this final week of university for this semester. This next week promises to be busy, but very exciting. Aside from doing my assignments, I will also be working with a couple of people from my old hosts to set up their new hosting company (because of the shut down – read my previous post). I will also be helping to migrate my own site to a new server, which will hopefully not take too long. I will keep you all posted.

Thank you all for reading this week’s catchup.
Robert