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Some time to relax, what?
0March 23, 2011
It seems that the chaos that was going on in my previous posts is dieing down. It was mostly Uni stuff, so it’s great that it’s out of the way now – for a while at least. The Java assignment got handed in on time and without any major issues, so our group just has to wait and see how well we scored. We had to perform a group presentation in our tutorial to show what our program could/could not do, and discuss how the project went. Although we had one group member missing, it went well and people seemed reasonably impressed!
I also had an assignment to write a CV and covering letter as a part of my “Personal and Professional Development” module. I spent a fair amount of time working on this trying to perfect it and make it look like the professional kind of document it should be. I’m around 90% happy with it but I still think it could be improved. It is harder than you think to try and include everything you want to say in an appropriate manner and in few words.
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More Races
0March 11, 2011
This weekend sees the 5th and 6th rounds of the British Universities Karting Championship at Llandow Kart Club. I’m unaware of the grid slots at the moment as I can’t find them on the BUKC site. Maybe they haven’t been released yet. Either way I’m not too fussed as they do work out at an average so that all teams have the same opportunity throughout the season. If anything I’d rather start at the back so I can at least move forward rather than drop back, ha! The weather is looking promising, there could be a chance of rain but I’m going to hope it stays dry as it makes things so much easier! Watch my Twitter for updates or come back here in around a weeks time for results.
Assignments wise, my teams Java deadline is fast approaching and there is still a fair amount to do. I spent a couple of hours the other day just cleaning up the code from huge amounts of white space, code that didn’t need to be there and terrible indentation. I decided it would be worthwhile commenting it all at More >
5 weeks left, really?
0March 4, 2011
Definitely time I made a blog post as I have been meaning to do for quite some time now, but simply haven’t got round to it. I barely know where to start it feels like so much has been going on! Anyway here is my best shot, enjoy..
Last thing I had mentioned was that I was going to a BUKC race in Middlesbrough at Teesside Autodrome. The day started pretty wet, and it was incredibly slippy on track. I was given the first race and was a little apprehensive what with only having driven the karts once before, and that had been in the dry. I found myself going into the first corner continuing straight on; it was solved with a fair old kick of throttle but certainly not what I was expecting! The steering wheel wasn’t doing much for me and it was all about the transfer of weight you could get by messing with the throttle. Despite struggling to the finish, it was all in vein as we had messed up the weights. I was 450g underweight, which I thought was a little harsh to disqualify me.
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