Hello everyone,
Sorry I couldn't write after my midterms were over. Because all my teachers were, apparently, waiting for the midterms to finish so that they could just unleash the assignments. I don't remember a time when I had that much homework. After that, finals started, and since I was busy doing the assignments, I couldn't study for my finals before. Anyhow, the semester is over now. I plan to do some projects, and I have an internship at Turkey's patent agency. It's a government agency, and the internship will last for 20 days. It's also online, so I don't have to travel to its building. However, since I didn't take all the necessary courses yet, this internship will not be counted as one of my mandatory internships.
In May, I was mainly doing my CS assignments. For CS223, I was to program a microprocessor on SystemVerilog. It was supposed to do basic calculations and store and retrieve the results of those calculations. It was so hard; I don't know anyone who finished the project by implementing all the properties in the instructions. I really don't think it was possible to complete it in just 2 weeks, which was the total time we were given. For 2 weeks, I only worked on this project, and I managed to get working simulations. However, the code just didn't work on BASYS3. Vivado said there were some double names in the code, but not their places. I couldn't find them within the 2000 lines of code. So it didn't work. I got a 65 for my 2-week work. So that's that on that.
CS201 turned out better. Our lecturer canceled the lectures for 2 weeks since we were moving fast. And he gave us relatively easy homework about stacks, which was the second last topic in the syllabus. Although sometimes I felt like years were passing while trying to fix the memory leaks, I actually liked C++. Pointers give a very different perspective to coding.
MATH132 was OK. It wasn't too hard, but I think the graders were a bit harsh. I got an A, so I can't really complain, I suppose. It was different than the other maths courses I took last year. Even the hardest questions seemed like they could be solved very easily somehow. But I've had problems with permutations and combinations before, so I studied harder than I imagined at the beginning of the semester.
HIST200 was almost a disaster. It was a group project, but only 2 people really worked on the paper. One of them was me, and the other was a friend of mine from the CS. If it weren't for us, the other 3 wouldn't have turned in anything. I sometimes had to try really hard to contain my anger because all the group's work was falling on my and my friend's shoulders. The deadlines just made everything worse. Our lecturer just found the perfect dates to overlap with my midterm schedule. Anyway, I'm just happy that I'm done with it.
Last but not least, PHYS102... It was just draining. The whole course was both emotionally and physically draining. For example, we needed to design a lab experiment, so I created one and turned it in. I got a 100 for my final lab design. So far, so good, right? Then, it was time to actually do the experiment. I tried to do it on my own first, but something was off. I was trying to measure the voltage on some metal cylinders, but I couldn't since their resistance is really small. Then I asked TA, the grader, what could I do. He said I couldn't do this experiment. He literally said that it wasn't possible to do the experiment, which he gave a 100. I worked on the experiment for 2 weeks and managed to get some results in the end, but it wasn't exactly the same as the experiment I first turned in.
This covers the last month of my semester. I was exhausted when the finals week started. I don't have a clear program for this summer yet, but I'm going to do some research about what I can study. I'll update the blog when I decide on the topics.
That's all I've got the say right now! See you.
Ece
