In the ELEC1601 tute today, we finally had the robot presentation. The tutors didn’t have a stopwatch (well, one of them had a watch that has that function but didn’t know how to use it xD), so I did all the timing.

This didn’t take too long so I got home early today, but I would’ve been even earlier if the person with the poster arrived on time. Then again, I can’t blame her for falling over on the way.

At the end, my group’s robot took 3 minutes and 38 seconds to get to the end of the maze and back. Right from the beginning, the tutor warned me that I mustn’t cheat when it comes to timing my own group. It was funny when another person in the group started shouting out fake times. He was actually quite convincing, and some people really believed him. I showed the tutor the real time at the end though. Of course, the robot played “Dans ma fusée” as I planned, but it was kind of awkward at the presentation when another person in my group admitted that he still didn’t know what the song was. (Then again, can’t blame him for not understanding French.) The tutor ended up writing “rocket song” on the board since that’s what another group member used to refer to it. There were two groups each with their robot playing “Mission Impossible”, “Super Mario”, and “Eye of the Tiger”, but of course my group was the only one to have “Dans ma fusée” (and also the only one to have a non-English song so far – I wonder if anyone in the next group had one too, but I doubt it). Very appropriately, it went on to “take a turn at the borders of space-time” (well, in the maze). May be it’s a good thing that I didn’t make it play the verse, as it’s definitely not living up to it. (“J’vais plus vite que la lumière”? I don’t think so.) Then again, no one will actually know.

This morning, for the first time, I rode my bike all the way to the university. In terms of time, it takes about as long as going by train because it takes time to wait for the train and also to get in and out of stations.

I managed to ride all the way back in the afternoon too.

I’m tired now, but this feels really good.

My next goal is to do this everyday for a whole week. Well, I don’t think I’ll be ready next week, so may be that can be my goal for next semester. (Looks like that my next goal should be to sort out my priorities first. xD)

Then again, turning up to class when my back is all wet isn’t really such a good idea. I need to bring extra clothes next time. I considered taking off my top and then putting on my jacket and zipping it up, but I think I might end up forgetting and unzipping it. xD

First of all…

Happy birthday to Leeann!

Yes, I still remember.

I don’t even have anything else to write about today. I’ve been really tired lately. All the cycling is really too much, Then again, it also makes me very happy, and it helps me sleep at night, so it’s worth it. I rode all the way home on Friday, and it took me an hour (a slight improvement from an hour and 10 minutes when I did so two weeks ago). I should do this more often.

I stayed up late last night to finish off my assignment, and I had a maths quiz today too. It wasn’t too bad – at least I wrote something down for each question.

The ENGG1804 tutorial ended quite unexpectedly halfway through. Most of the others were probably glad to have that hour to themselves, but for me it meant that I had to rush back to the other side of the campus for my linguistics lecture. Of course, I was glad to go to the linguistics lecture. Really, Mondays aren’t so bad if I actually get to go to my linguistics lecture. It really makes my day.

For that hour of free time that I did have after the lecture, I sat around with the friend that I met on WebCT. She has so many friends! Her friends were doing their assignments at the last moment… Sheesh. If there’s one subject for which I don’t leave the assignments till the last moment, it’s linguistics. See, total subject favouritism.

After that, I went to the ENGG1804 lecture, and the half of the class that were there waited for about half an hour, and neither of the lecturers turned up. They could’ve told us.

Then again, I’m glad to go home early.

I managed to ride my bike all the way home from the university! I started at 9:10 and got home at 10:15 (I was riding on the path and not on the road, so that’s why it took so long.), so it doesn’t really take that much longer than going home by train. That is, riding from the university to the train station, waiting for the train, and then going home on the train will add up to almost as long, even though the train journey is only about 20 minutes.

Normally, I would be in a linguistics tutorial at this time on a Friday, but I went on Wednesday so I don’t have to go again today. The only class I had today was a differential calculus lecture. We were looking at functions of two variables, and when looking at functions, of course we look at graphs. Somehow, someone started picking on how the lecturer pronounces “graph”. He says [gɹaf], and some people in the class say [gɹæf]. (I wonder if anyone else in there did linguistics. May be I should’ve took the chance to ask. xD) He also accidentally said “spear” instead of “sphere” a few times, and I joked that “hemisphere” becomes “hammer spear” when he said it. It’s fun sitting at the front. See, maths first thing in the morning isn’t really that cruel. It was also funny when the lecturer put the computer-generated 3-D graphs on the screen. One of them had two bumps sticking up, and everyone laughed at it. xD

Luckily, I didn’t have to. The ELEC1601 quiz today wasn’t too bad. It was just 8 multiple choice questions. I knew that I got 3/4 (it’s half a mark per question), which isn’t too bad compared to the people who sit next to me, but I don’t know which ones I got wrong.Yesterday’s linguistics exam was harder. Then again, even with that I didn’t have to pretend to collapse, although before both quizzes I did feel a little bit dizzy.

There was a new lecturer in maths today. Luckily, he has a “neutral” accent unlike someone else, and he’s funny too.

I took the robot home today. I should really check it to make sure that it survived the journey. xD It’s surprising that my group actually agreed to let me take it with me considering that I ride a bike to the train station, so it’s relatively risky.

Then again, trying to put a song on it will be fun! I want it to play “Dans ma fusée”. It would be so ironic to have this slow-moving little robot play “Dans ma fusée” (“In my rocket”), but I really like that tune.  Hopefully, I’ll get it done before the other person who’s also working on music figures out how to make it play the Pokémon theme song.