Frustration

I don't know what the weekend's deal is but I my berserk button has been constantly triggered these past few days starting on the afternoon of Friday.

As you all know, here in the Philippines, the end of February and the impending start of March is synonymous to a month long Hell Week, or just Hell Month, whatever, for us students.

It is a month of finals, projects, exams and basically a figurative but realistic mass murdering of students.

However, because of the change in the academic calendar in several universities including the university that I'm in, the start of a new academic term will start on August instead of June. So next year, March will be counted as midsem and May will be the new hell month.

The pressure is on again and it won't be going down until the semester ends. I have loads of requirements crammed in my calendar already and I'm nowhere near finishing not even one of them.

Fridays are usually my free day and last Friday, I did spent it having my fill of a weekly R &R but the worry of requirements didn't give me a magnificent happy time at all.

I'm back to the basics again at C programming. For two and a half semesters now I've been using Code::Blocks as my main source of text editor and automatic compiler but our latest exercise in CMSC 123 called for me using another compiler, Cygwin. Cygwin has been suggested to me time and again but because of my legendary slow internet download speed (I was promised 3 mbps but yes they never said direct download) so I never got to download the necessary packages. The only other way around is to use Ubuntu via VirtualBox but since Ubuntu's file size speaks for an overnight download even at the speed of the internet back home, I had to go back to Cygwin.

It took me a day and a half to finally get that damn compiler to install and work with C files.

In the process, I also learned how to manipulate compile time arguments. Now it's just the main exercise left.

Oh yeah, of course there's also part 1 of our second long exam in CMSC 130 due Wednesday, which is also the same day as the submission of the exercise, which is also the same day as another quiz in MATH 28 and ENG 2.

All that while sleeping for 7 hours and 30 minutes, and still sleep deprived in the morning. This world needs a chronomage, and who better than me?