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How are you feeling?

Sooo, today ended up not being all sucky and terrible like I originally anticipated. I've got one mean migraine at the moment but I'm distracting myself 10 different ways so it's not as bad - and whenever I eventually manage to get out of this chair (my god it's comfy... I'm afraid to get up because my cat's been eying me like she's just waiting to steal my seat) I'll toss back a couple aspirin but ---

Ohhhh lawd I just remembered I left my tea steeping on the counter. It's probably gonna taste awful now. lmao
 
Better now that I know my items are on their way... Wondering why DPD is handling stuff though since RM should have, I did not select courier.. oh well.
 
feeling tired and lazy today ;-;
i really don't want to do anything except rewatch the parks and rec series finale and cry
 
I'm sort of confused by a problem I got incorrect on my math test and I've been staring at it for awhile trying to figure out how to solve it, but I'm good. :)
 
I'm feeling proud of myself for making my first Choose Your Own Adventure :)

I'm also kind of tired but for some reason I can't get to sleep.
 
Feeling pretty good! I found a sweater I wanted for a while at H&M for 7 bucks mwahaha.
 
Feeling alright actually. Were not too far into 2015, which is sort of good because I have a few goals I want to achieve this year :)
 
I am feeling incredibly stupid. Long story/rant coming up... I am hoping I will feel better if I type it out.

I got this HW assignment on Monday that the professor said "looks long, but it really isn't". I thought I'd get a head start on it, so I begin Monday.

Turns out, it was an incredibly difficult programming assignment. Or difficult for me at least... I'm not that good at programming, at least not compared to my peers. So I spend 6ish hours between Monday and Tuesday working on it. I keep encountering frustrating errors, debugging, finding more errors, etc. until I find I have one final error I cannot solve. On Wednesday (today) I go to office hours for the TA to query my problem. She's very helpful and helps me find the error, plus makes another suggestion that is fundamentally important to the program. As someone who has not spent a ton of time programming before, I have never heard of this "obvious" transformation suggestion but it seems helpful.

Anyhow, I just spent all of tonight (~5 hours) working on my assignment. It takes awhile to run the program, so each 'case' I am supposed to run takes an agonizing fifteen minutes. I finally think I've fixed my problem, since the output matches what I want. I spend awhile crafting a pretty report... 4 pages of written work/tables/figures, and 15 pages of code. I was feeling pretty pleased with myself as I print out the final version, and tuck it in my backpack. To treat myself, I figure I'll play some Zelda tonight on my 3DS.

But then, as I am pouring myself a glass of water, a big error in my code hits me like a ton of bricks. I took a log somewhere to simplify calculations, but I forgot to back transform!!! Gah!!! And somehow, missing that crucial piece of information doesn't even impact my results enough to notice?!?! GRR.

So now I am locked into another 3 hours of rerunning code, redoing tables, figures, etc... all because I forgot one little thing. To rub salt in the wound, the rest of my classmates are bragging about having finished early/working hard on it to get it done. I am working hard too!!!! I really wish I were smarter :(

Please someone tell me I am not a lost cause. So frustrated by this assignment :(
 
abby534534 said:
I am feeling incredibly stupid. Long story/rant coming up... I am hoping I will feel better if I type it out.

I got this HW assignment on Monday that the professor said "looks long, but it really isn't". I thought I'd get a head start on it, so I begin Monday.

Turns out, it was an incredibly difficult programming assignment. Or difficult for me at least... I'm not that good at programming, at least not compared to my peers. So I spend 6ish hours between Monday and Tuesday working on it. I keep encountering frustrating errors, debugging, finding more errors, etc. until I find I have one final error I cannot solve. On Wednesday (today) I go to office hours for the TA to query my problem. She's very helpful and helps me find the error, plus makes another suggestion that is fundamentally important to the program. As someone who has not spent a ton of time programming before, I have never heard of this "obvious" transformation suggestion but it seems helpful.

Anyhow, I just spent all of tonight (~5 hours) working on my assignment. It takes awhile to run the program, so each 'case' I am supposed to run takes an agonizing fifteen minutes. I finally think I've fixed my problem, since the output matches what I want. I spend awhile crafting a pretty report... 4 pages of written work/tables/figures, and 15 pages of code. I was feeling pretty pleased with myself as I print out the final version, and tuck it in my backpack. To treat myself, I figure I'll play some Zelda tonight on my 3DS.

But then, as I am pouring myself a glass of water, a big error in my code hits me like a ton of bricks. I took a log somewhere to simplify calculations, but I forgot to back transform!!! Gah!!! And somehow, missing that crucial piece of information doesn't even impact my results enough to notice?!?! GRR.

So now I am locked into another 3 hours of rerunning code, redoing tables, figures, etc... all because I forgot one little thing. To rub salt in the wound, the rest of my classmates are bragging about having finished early/working hard on it to get it done. I am working hard too!!!! I really wish I were smarter :(

Please someone tell me I am not a lost cause. So frustrated by this assignment :(
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You're not a lost cause, and you shouldn't feel stupid or anything! That's how I was at the beginning of the year with some of my chemistry assignments, but over time I started understanding everything a lot more, and I'm sure the same will happen to you if you keep working hard. Good luck with your assignment, I hope you finish soon. :)
 
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