A student no more 30 September 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in University.Tags: finished, MSc, thesis
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So I handed my project in on Wed and yesterday I had my Viva Voca. And… thats it, my MSc is over. Now I just have to wait for my results, book my gown for graduation and attend my graudation. It’s been a bit of a crazy year, I remember times when i felt like the year would never be over, when i was megaly stressed. (I never felt quite like this at Keele.) But now, now its over, and I’m happy and sad at the same time. Happy, because its over, because I can now try and find a job, earn some money and move out to my own place with C. Sad because, well now I have to enter the ‘real’ world 
, and I can no longer get student discount on stuff. Although admitidly i haven’t been able to get student discount since mid August, as my student Id was printed with that date on even though I didn’t finish till, well now really.
Ah well, thats all I’ve really got to say on the matter. 
Done 24 September 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in University.Tags: done, MSc, project, thesis
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Done….
Done…
Done..!
Done!
Done!!
DONE!!!!
Guess what?! I’m DONE! My project is sitting in an office somewhere, and hopefully it’ll get to where it needs to get to.
Time for me to go eat some ice cream and do some fun stuff!
(Also having written done that many times it now just looks like the wrong spelling.)
And I love how the formatting for this looks great when I’m in edit mode but goes crazy when its actually posted *eye roll*
The never ending project 23 September 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in University.Tags: ally pally, knitting and stitching show, MSc, project
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So the work on my thesis progresses, and it’s nearly done I hope. Its strange, or well maybe not so strange, but every time I’ve had a project meeting with my supervisor I’ve been really rather nervy that she won’t like what I’ve done or will think I haven’t done enough. I got similar feelings while I was doing my Undergrad project too. I know I tend to worry too much, and I don’t really need to. My project supervisor is quite nice, I suppose she can seem a bit intimidating but she’s actually really helpful, always has some constructive words about where I’ve gone wrong or where I should extend certain bits of the work. Its VERY helpful and I don’t think I’d be so satisfied with my work if I hadn’t had that.
However saying all that the words you don’t want to hear on the phone on a Monday night when Thursday is the deadline is. “I think you need to add a bit more about your application, because I know you’ve done a lot of work on this, but you also need to show the moderator too. Add a few more query examples.” (That was the gist of it at least.) Now I know this is constructive and helpful, and to be honest I think (hope) I added most of this last night although I’m going to have to send it to her again today just to check that its ok. But at the same time when she said that my heart sank! And I had this horrible Gaahhhhhhhhhhh!!! feeling.
I just want to be able to look at the project and go it’s done, I can print it off and just not care any more ever! (Ok so that’s not really true I’ll have a viva on Monday so I need to do a presentation for that, but at least the paper work is in by then. )
I’m tired, fedup and a bit grumpy.
I can’t wait till the Knitting and Stitching show at Ally Pally going to buy myself a lot of yarn to congratulate myself!
8,800 12 September 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Computer, University.Tags: computers, laptops, MSc, thesis, University
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Dum de dum dum, yup that’s right I’m now up to 8,800 words (word limit is 15,000) can you tell I’m in a better mood to my post the other day? Ok so I’ve still got a fair bit to write, and a LOT to do for little tiding up bits (I think that’s always the worst really tiding up references, figures, contents all that boring stuff) but I’m feeling ok on it all again. I wonder how long it will last. *rolls eyes*
There was a power cut yesterday at about 2pm, just as I was going to get back down to work (or attempt to get to work) needless to say I was not impressed when my pc just died on me. Nor was I impressed when I realised that my laptop was out of battery. Luckily my mum’s was fully charged so I sat down with that and found that I’d written around about a 800 words before the power came back on, about an hour later. So it would seem that a power cut is the perfect thing to get my writing skills flowing..? Or maybe it was the lack of other distractions like the internet. 
Anyway I’ve also decided that I adore my mum’s laptop. Mine is a big heavy 15″ laptop, to overpowered for its own good really so the batteries aren’t great. I’m not really sure what the spec’s are on my mum’s one but its 12″ and I just love the size of it! Its great for sitting down with it on your lap to type. I do have to try and make sure my hand doens’t hit the track pad constantly otherwise I get very broken up sentences but aside from that its fab. Its made me realise that I’d quite like a smallish laptop and then my friend pointed out that there are now laptops like this around. Is it not cute? I may have to save up some money once I get a job to get one, and then figure out what to do with my old laptop.. need to figure out what to do with my old pc too. The motherboard (or at least from what I can remember, it was a year ago) was starting to die and everything else in there is pretty damn old. I may take the HD out and keep that, and then figure out what to do with the rest of the bits.
Does anyone have a map? 10 September 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in University.Tags: data warehousing, dss, lost, MSc, thesis, tired, University
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I suddenly have the overwhealming feeling of just being rather lost with my thesis. Its not that I don’t know what I need to write about, because I do but I’m getting to that stage where everything is getting that bit harder to write, I’ve written all the easy stuff. Additionally I know that if I could sit down and have a good day I could probably get this whole rough copy done by Thursday/Friday and then I’d have a week or so to tweak. But I dunno right now I’m just feeling….. I don’t know what.
I am writing at the moment, but just a short while ago I suddenly had this massive brain fade where I couldn’t remember what DSS stood for. I mean its a core thing for data warehousing and data mining and I couldn’t remember! It stands for Decision Support System, and don’t ask me why I hadn’t written that down in my paper yet, all I’d written to date was DSS repeatidly. >_<
So yeah I feel a bit lost, fed up and I’d really like a job and some money. *sigh* Just got to hold on till the 25th… nearly there. (You know it was due on the 15th, of which I was on track for and then there was a 10 day extension).
Cardigans and graduation 20 August 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Knitting, University.Tags: blocking, buttons, cardigan, graduation, MSc project
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So after a rather long stint (I say long stint.. i think it was only a couple of weeks) of not really having anything to knit and not really feeling like working on any of my WIPS. I finally got started on (as I mentioned in a previous post) and finished a cardigan. And I love it.
Pattern: Kaleidoscope and (non-Ravelry Pattern)
Yarn: NH Knitting Mama’s Moody Blues (Sock yarn)
Needles: 5MM
Isn’t it fab? I did get very worried at the blocking stage, the button holes were HUGE afterwards and there was no way it was going to stay done up (and I have to say it looks a bit funny not done up) but my mum is wonderful and reinforced the button holes for me to make them smaller. Now the buttons fit just fine. (I got the buttons from John Lewis.) I now absolutely love this cardigan, if I’m honest the shoulder bit is maybe a little too big, its supposed to sit low there but it ends up just falling off mine after a while. But oh well who cares, its one of the few things I’ve made so far that I will be able to get a lot of wear out. Now I just need to get hold of some more tops that go with this. It just doesn’t look right with high round necked t-shirts.
Next project? Another cardigan, some gloves (not for me), scarf (again not for me) and a top (for which I have some purchased some really lovely merino from ColourMart, I can’t wait to get started on that, but I have to get started on these other things first!)
In other news my project, for the moment is going well. I’m pretty much at the write up stage with 3 weeks to go, and after having seen my project supervisor today well, I seem to be on track with the write up to.
And in additional news, I was originally informed that I wouldn’t be able to go to my graduation as it was in November and there just wouldn’t be enough time between handing in the project and getting the marks sorted before the ceremony. Well the ceremony has now been pushed back to December so I will now have a ceremony! Thank goodness for that, I may have to dress up in a silly gown and hat for the 2nd time in my life but its definitely worth it. No matter what grade I get in the end I’ve worked HARD for this damnit!
Survey Request 14 August 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in Gaming, University.Tags: computer gaming, MSc, survey
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So I’m going to post this link here in the hopes that the some of the few people who read this blog may be inclined to answer this survey.
The survey is about gaming, there are only 4 questions and its for my MSc project, so the more responses the better. I’ll be very greatful for any and all responses.
Blah Reports… 23 July 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in University.Tags: report writing
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I hate writing up reports, I mean I know where I want to go with this section I’m trying to write for my Project. In fact its a fairly simple section mearly doing a quick explination of data warehousing and yet I find it really hard to write coherant sentences. Seriously this bit I want to write isn’t hard, I could realy write it by the end of today. I just need to somehow bring it all together and that is something I’m just finding impossible at the moment. 
Dimensions…. 9 July 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in University.Tags: dimensions, project report
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3rd entry today I know.. but don’t you just hate it when you look at a word a few times too often and suddenly it just doesn’t look right to you? Even thou Word is telling me the word Dimensions is spelt right it just looks wrong.
Dimensions
DimensionsDimensions
Nope… its that E and the first S… it just looks like Dim-Ensions, , or Dime-n-Sions.. which I suppose if you say the first one out loud does sort of work, but the second one? I just keep seeing the word Dime now…
*sigh* And I’ll be using this word a lot in my project report. Joy!
Edit: oooh could also be Di-Men-Sions! Gahh!
Pleasently Surprised.. 1 July 2008
Posted by kaitharshayr in University.Tags: exam results, happy
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Or perhaps I should say ecstatic?
I just checked my universities on-line system to see my final module results and.. Well. I actually saw some of them last week but they weren’t all up, now they are. And well, I think you can guess that I’m pretty damn pleased with them! My worst exam was Database Administration (in the 50%s) however every other module I seem to have done amazingly well on, (above 70%)(Well ok Java was 69% but still, it really pulled my mark up for that considering I did so badly on the very first in class test). So yes I am really quite quite happy!
Now all that’s left is to get my project done, (I do hope we get a marking scheme for that, as it would help).
Heheh, ahh gosh this MSc, which has been such hard work, is nearly done!! Just gota pull it together with this project, and start job hunting. Phew.
