May 31, 2007
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Je suis partie faire un tour aux confins de l’espace-temps…
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.
