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The end of crunch time came last night with the completion of my project demo in the lab.It has been a tough and long week at school. Long nights were had in the lab, with the team coming home at 2 and 3 in the morning a few days. That stacked on top of other assignments and projects have lead to a crunch all of us Comp Sci folk loathe.

Our team has emerged out of this doing quite well. We don’t have our marks in yet for sure, but I believe we got ranked top project out of the 10 groups in the class as well as for best presentation. I felt schandenfreude (I finally get to use that word!) seeing some of our main competitors’ projects crash and burn during demo time. Afterall, my course is a curved class and marks are based on how you compare to your peers. Our project had the best visual design as well as the most complete feature set. Sailing through our demo without a single crash or hiccup basically clinched the win for the top spot.

All of our toiling to “cover-our-asses” with relentless fail-safe checks and bonus features actually came to fruition and put us ahead. It’s always a huge fear of mine that all of the additional time and effort put into a project would go unnoticed.

With all of the projects behind me, I can finally bathe, eat, and sleep well. Vegging and doing absolutely nothing has never felt so good. I now no longer have to track time in Comp Sci Standard Time: hours until deadline. That’s right, we don’t track time in days in comp sci… but rather in hours. Days and nights are irrelevant when you’re in the lab. Sleep cycles? Days? What’s that?

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