22 Feb — 28 Feb
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3 min readFeb 28, 2021
- What did you do this past week?
Last week was the week after a week of no water. That was a very tiring week where I didn’t get much done because I was stressed out over running out of power and having enough food. As a result, I spent a lot of the last week catching up to my classes. - What’s in your way?
Working with classes in C++ has been difficult. The actual content taught in class is not too bad for me but using the programming language leaves me with a lot of syntax errors I need to work around. Chemistry and matrices are difficult for me because they are STEM classes but not CS classes so I am not as motivated. AI has difficult topics to learn but Python is an easier programming language. - What will you do next week?
I have two projects due in two different CS classes. I have a test in matrices next week but I have skipped some of the lectures for matrices. I will need to catch up on that. I have a meeting for convergent which will be my first one. I also have research on Monday I need to complete by reading a few articles. - If you read it, what did you think of the Single Responsibility Principle?
I agree with the idea and think it applies to all types of CS problems. You don’t want any particular part of your program handling too many responsibilities. It makes debugging code a pain in the butt because one part of the code might break another part that seemed to be independent. - What was your experience of Voting and consts? (this question will vary, week to week)
I’ve never done a computer science problem like voting but I did vote this past election because voting is important. I have seen consts before in C++ classes. The crazy thing is when you declare a pointer as const and then you declare the variable type itself as const and you end up with the word const twice in the declaration. - How did you fare in the storm?
I did alright. No warm water forced me to take freezing cold showers. Electricity and wifi never disconnected so that was good. I stocked my freezer up a lot before the storm hit so I had enough food. The main issue was water, but I got a lot of water from my friends and this was life-saving since I did not have a boiler. - What made you happy this week?
I ended up getting an internship for this summer this week. It was very satisfying to me because I’ve been working all year for this and a huge weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. This frees up so much time for me and I want to spend more time investing it into classes like OOP where the professor is so wise and teaches a lot of interesting topics. - What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
A lot of job application is random chance. I think to maximize your chance of getting an internship for the summer you either need to utilize connections (like referrals) or you need to mass apply. I had to apply to over 200 internships and I got rejected from almost all of them. It’s about being resilient and not giving up when you get rejected. There were many times I felt very bad after a long series of rejections.
