0/3 -21:24

Weather:

Sunny -> partly cloudy: lack of school project progress

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Find a way to fix bug in the implementation. [x] - some new bug introducing -_-
• Work
• Preliminary new feature implementation.
• GRE
• One practice section [>] half of a maths section.

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Resting due to catching cold T_T

0/4 -21:43

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Make an implementation of duration change. [>] - incorrect timeshifts.
• Work
• Refactoring support.
• Design discussion.
• GRE
• One practice section [X] (37/42)
• Studied one chapter of the book on reading.

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Played tennis first time in a while.

-0/6 -00:10

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Find a way to program time expansion. [>] - untested theory
• Email professor to request maths paper. [ ]
• Email student introduced by professor. [ ]
• Work
• Bug fixing.
• Support for algorithmic correction.
• GRE
• One practice session [X] (19/22)

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Carrots are good ~

-0/6 -23:53

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Start on homework assignment. [>] - downloaded materials, made some data processing
• Thesis Research:
• Wrote one program to test data structure. [X] - two alternative toolkits have similar limitations.
• New notes
• GRE
• Two practice sections [X] - verbal (82.5%) + essay study

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Lived off of GRE .. continuing sleep adjustment.

-0/0 -20:30

Weather:

Cloudy: overslept

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Determine usability of data structure in alternative library. [>] - seem to have type limitations, more tests needed.
• GRE
• One practice section [ ] - moved to tomorrow
• Reviewed 30 vocabularies
• Widget antonym review

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Adjusting sleep.

-0/1 -22:09

Weather:

Cloudy: low schoolwork time allocation -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Improve filter program to store things in a data structure. [y] - studying one alternative library found.
• Work
• No significant progress.
• GRE
• One practice section. [X] - Challenging reading comprehension and problem solving (83%+overtime .. :( )

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Overslept again ... -_-;; Rain finally stopped but nobody really came to look at the roof ...

-0/3 -21:47

Weather:

Overcast: unsettled business.

• School
• Make directions for assignment [X] - and potential paper topic!
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with advisor [X]
• Programmed a simple filtering model.
• Work
• Support for colleague in correction of algorithm implementation.
• GRE
• One practice section [X] - Sentence completion + Reading (28/30 ..T_T!)

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Got 100% on sentence completion practice again ... T_T

People coming to look at the roof (and ceiling leak~) tomorrow ... T_T

0/4 -00:00

Weather:

Overcast: unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Implement some simple data processing using anything [X] - transposition with python code.
• Work
• Design discussion.
• GRE
• One practice section [x] - vocabulary drill with roommate
• Widget antonym review.
• Analogy problems of the day.

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Got new curtains for the room, screwed in curtain hooks on the frame in for the first time. ^_^

0/4 -22:11

Weather:

Rain: overslept, unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Continue investigation in feature extraction. [x] - configured new alternative software tool.
• Work
• Refactoring + new user interface support.
• Meeting with boss on mathematical difficulties of the engineering problem.
• GRE
• One practice section. [X] - analogy + comparison (90% .. T_T)

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My ceiling leaks ~ hope my bucket have enough volume for tonight .. T_T

-0/5 -21:55

Weather:

Rain: unsettled business.

• School
• Homework revision.
• Thesis Research:
• Investigate feature extraction from file data. [ ] - found faults in software tool.
• Work
• Support for user interface implementation.
• Code cleanup and feature completion.
• GRE
• One practice section. [X] - 28/30 (w/ seen problems)

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Software needs further investigation.

-0/6 -19:08

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Finish homework [y] - check pending
• Thesis Research:
• Test the ability of the software tool for data reading. [X] - capable.
• GRE
• One practice section [X] - two reading comprehension + one antonym list

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Some Yogurt tastes better than the others .. but not really more nutritious.

-0/0 -22:59

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• One article / one sample program. [>] - further reading of manual
• Motivation and inspiration after reading one course syllabus
• GRE
• One practice section [X] - sentence completion and reading comprehension (70%..T_T)

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Seems like Carnegie Melon has an interesting computer music professor.

-0/1 -21:32

Weather:

Sunny -> overcast: underperforming

• School
• Finish assignment for one chapter. [y] - 1 problem left
• Thesis Research:
• Study one example with the software tool. [#] - example of low pertinence.
• Work
• Support back and forth between two colleagues.
• Significant progress in implementation of two major components.
• GRE
• One practice section. [] - pushed by work
• Antonym question of the day (r)

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Got week's work hours in without trying .. back to GRE and schoolwork. Found one error on professor's textbook .. will second-check it before talking to him.

-0/3 -00:00

Weather:

Overcast: overslept -> Sunny -> Storm: misbehavior

• School
• Finish half of homework for one chapter [X]
• Thesis Research:
• Continue evaluation of software tool. [X]
• Work
• No significant progress.
• GRE
• One practice section [>] - issue essay sample evaluation + topic review
• Maths problem of the day.

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Software looks like it has potential to be useful so far.

-0/4 -00:06

Weather:

Overcast: sleep debt -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Validate and test programming tool. [X] - tested a working windows setup with some examples.
• Work
• Support for feature implementation.
• New user interface.
• GRE
• One new practice section. [X] - 1 maths section
• Got pp2review to work which enables access of all problems in the database of ETS Powerprepare 2.

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.. missed two maths problems by misreading >_<

-0/5 -00:01

Weather:

Overcast: unsettled business -> Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• One article. [X] - Toolkit documentation.
• Work
• Revised one auxiliary method.
• Support for building realistic test cases for algorithm.
• Discussion on algorithm design for new functionality.
• GRE
• One practice section [X]
• Software reconfiguration.

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Had good Chinese food today .. perfectly calculated for budget and quality. :)

-0/5 -23:12

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: catching up with schoolwork

• School
• 2+ article for assignment [X] - one maths article and one chapter of a book.
• Thesis Research
• Meet with professor.
• Work
• Prepare for meeting [X]
• Bug fix.
• Algorithm design discussion.
• Received new task.
• GRE
• One practice section. [X] - Mentored verbal section test
• Widget antonym review.

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Got quite a bit of skepticism from professor today ... need to put more work into thesis.

Did a difficult practice test and missed a lot T_T.

-0/0 -00:45

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Read one journal article.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review.
• Finished the rest of the audio books.
• Antonym strategy.
• The printing error in math problem before was a misread -_-;
• Analogy problem of the day (r)

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Business unsettled .. next week's survival depends on task list.

-0/0 -21:49

Weather:

Sunny

• Chores
  • Grocery shopping
  • Cleaned up room pretty much completely, with help of friend.
• School
  • Thesis research:
    • No significant progress.
• GRE
  • Widget antonym review.

Hopefully some business would be settled soon.

-0/1 -23:30

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: unsettled business

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • No significant progress.
• Work
  • Bug filing.
  • Continued bug tracker configuration.
  • Began refactoring for one component.
• GRE
  • Widget antonym review.

Went to bed early and overslept -_-;

-0/3 -2:00

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: slow thesis progress, unsettled business

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Meeting with advisor, new paradigm for model, more detailed ideas on implementation.
• Work
• Support leads to priliminary implmentation of one feature.
• Bugfixes
• New methods for auxillary class.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review.
• Antonym problem of the day.

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Finally managed to go to bed early for one day.

-0/3 -20:57

Weather:

Sunny -> Overcast: catching up on schoolwork

• School
  • Finished one assignment
• Work
  • Bug tracker fix & reconfiguration.
  • Collaboration.
• GRE
  • Math problems of the day (one printing error in the practice problem o_o)

Progress is good .. load still a little high.

-0/4 -20:00

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Almost finished one assignment.
• Work
• Long meetings: worked out roadmap past current phase deliverable.
• Bugfixes
• Helped collegue with algorithm design.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review

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Getting back on schoowork and having fun with them ^_^

-0/5 -20:38

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Pushed by work.
• Work
  • New feature implementation.
  • Long math derivation session with colleague.
  • Bug filing.
• GRE
  • Analogy question of the day. (r)
  • Widget antonym review.

Shifting to schoolwork tomorrow.

-0/6 -23:00

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Continued reading paper.
• Work
  • Minor bug fix.
  • New helper class implementation.
• GRE
  • Math flash cards review.
  • Sentence completion problem of the day.

Consulted Dad's analytic geometry handbook for the first time because of work ^_^'' It's a cool book indeed.

-0/1 -00:18

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Started reading the 160-page article.
• Work
• Bugzilla configuration.
• Bugfixing.
• GRE
• Analogy problems of the day. (0.5r)

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Found out that large parts of the article could be skipped .. and it is tied with one of my undergraduate seminars. :P

-0/2 -00:30

Weather:

Sunny

• School
• Thesis Research:
• Retrieved article through citation.
• Work
• Several critical bug fixes.
• Prettying much worked one of three previous major risks into low priority.
• GRE
• Widget antonym review.
• Word prefix studies.
• Analogy problem of the day. (r)

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The article is 160+ pages long ^_^; Got plenty to read without Internet at home now.

-0/2 -19:23

Weather:

Overcast: overslept -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Obtained paper citation from professor.
    • Meeting with thesis advisor.
• Work
  • Hammering away weeks of work in one day: bugfixes, new features, collaborations ..
• GRE
  • Widget antonym review

Smoking too much work these days .. need to take a break and shift to courseworks.

-0/3 -19:22

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Interesting material found. Meeting with professor tomorrow to get paper.
• Work
  • Lots of coding on new feature.
  • Support for bug fixing.
  • Intensive debugging of new feature. (fixed bugs involving colleague's interacting component as well)
• GRE
  • Widget antonym review.
  • Extended ideas from math problem explored.

Voluntary overworking = multiplied productivity. ^_^;

-0/4 -22:38

Weather:

Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Pushed forward by work.
• Work
  • Regular meetings.
  • Several significant bug fixing & support.
  • Finished preliminary implementation of new feature.
• GRE
  • Sentence completion problem of the day (r)
  • Analogy problem of the day (r)

Great progress in work pushing everything else forward -_-;

-0/5 -23:00

Weather:

Overcast: overslept -> Sunny

• School
  • Thesis Research:
    • Contemplation in hypothesis.
• Work
  • Support colleague in module implementation.
  • Significant performance enhancement.
  • Implementation of new feature extension.
• GRE
  • Widget antonym review.
  • Math review.

Getting hungry a little easier than normal ... guess it was a good thing :P