Saturday February 04, 2006
Dammit dammit dammit

So yeah... I've been doing homework today from when I woke up to now. That's like 10 hours, continuously. And what have I accomplished in those 10 hours? Nothing.

I tried to do the 18100 homework. This is the second homework for a 100 level course. It should not be this hard. It should not take this long. However, I've been working on it for around 5 hours now (2 hours on a single problem, which I still don't have right). Had Mark (an ECE major, no less) help me with a problem, and we still got the same (wrong) answer. GRARRRRGHHHH.

I tried to do the binary bomb lab for 213. I managed to get through phase 1. I am completely, utterly lost on phase 2. There's a for loop... and that's about all I can recognise in the assembly code. So many functions doing so much stuff... and none of it seems to use the input you give it. GAAAAAHHHH.

I tried to do the combinatorics homework. I got halfway through the first problem, and then got stuck on a fraction that I'm supposed to factor, but can't. And if I can't factor it, I can't solve the generating function into the closed form for the recurrance. GRRRRRRAAAAAAHHHH.

I've also looked (a little) at the 312 homework. It scares me. A lot. I havn't actually had time to start it yet. ARRRRRGGGHHH.

In addition to all this, I have a bagger tomorrow night and a roll of film to shoot for photo class. Much of this homework is due soon... as in next week soon. I'm so screwed.

I just want to curl up somewhere and cry. I feel like I understand all this material, but the homework demonstrates otherwise. It's not even like I'm procrastinating on this stuff... the combinatorics was released Friday, the ECE was released Wednesday (I started it Thursday), and the 213/312 programs are due in a little over a week.
:-\

I need a hug. A lot of hugs. And someone to explain all this stupid stuff to me.




Comments:

Chillax. C = degree.

Posted by: Akshat at February 4, 2006 09:45 PM

D is for Diploma. That's what Roberts taught me.

Also... you have way more than a week. It's more like 1.5 weeks. Cool down.

Posted by: Grant at February 5, 2006 12:45 AM

Yes 213 certainly is interesting. Too bad we all have different assignments, otherwise I'd probably be able to help. My phase 2 didn't involve a for loop though. Remember, gdb is your friend! Set breakpoints at addresses, use "x" to examine contents of memory and "stepi" to execute code one instruction at a time, and make liberal use of the invaluable "info registers".

Posted by: 27thletter at February 5, 2006 10:04 AM


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