Bookkeeper

There is a university near my place. Normally, there are few places in any university where non-students can sneak in and lounge about. Most of these places are better than city libraries and less crowded than cafes. Now, I'm working from home and need a decent place to study when my neighbors decide to party without giving me an invitation. It's a bit of a hike, but I need to walk a little anyway.

Just diagnosed with scoliosis and forward head posture Why is life so tedious? There are just too many things fighting for my attention these days. I don't know why, but all Korean chiropractic institutions seem like a scam. They force you to buy their overly-priced membership (literally felt the pressure in the room as they talked about their membership) and give a poor excuse that it is covered by most Korean insurance companies. Which means I'm not covered because I just got here. With the work that I am currently doing, maybe it can't be helped. I'm always sitting behind a desk, hunching over a keyboard and a screen for 9 hours or more per day. But it is all the more stressful because I can't come to a decision quickly enough. It is obviously too expensive for me to afford (or is it?) ($2000 for 10 sessions of "treatment").  And it is also very obvious that my back will incessantly bother me if I don't do something about it.

I want to sit down on a beach, feel the sand moving under my bare feet.

Today was a extremely productive day. I finally completed the project 2 which I had been delaying until the last minute and handed it in before the deadline. Two other people from my class cooperated with me in finishing up the project. We went to the office hour on Thursday but felt that there were not enough TAs to help out the students. We stumbled over the check-expects and asked the TA in the lab for a hint but her explanation rather confused us than help us solve the problem. Nevertheless, after labourious hours of attempts, all the tests were passed. The last problem we had was manipulation of the base size of the triangle in the fractal project. I tried changing the definition of the sierpinski function, and then, I could manipulate the base size of the triangle by pressing keys. I was working with my classmate, Jiwon http://jiwoncsc104.blogspot.ca/ , to finish the problem solving project. We chose the penny piles problem and tried to work on our own at first. However, withou

The professor explained the project 2 during the lecture. For the last project, the explanation helped me a lot with understanding the questions. Without the professor's explanation, I wouldn't have been able to understand the project. As the saying goes, practice makes things perfect. Project 1 and 2 have many check-expect problems and definition errors I need to fix. Fixing similar errors repeatedly helps me  learn how to do them. I am going to create a group with whom I will share the mark of the project. Sharing and teaching each other ina productive group speeds up the whole process and is a good studying strategy.

Nearing the end of the semester, there are only a few assignments and the final exam left to do. I'll try my best to finish up the wikipedia assignment tonight, but I am afraid that I chose articles that are quite difficult to correct. One article I chose explains about a famous Korean historical figure, and its author has excellent writing skills. I need to make only few minor corrections to that article. The other articles I chose need some references and changes in their format; a prose-style article will be changed into a list-style article. The lecture materials are increasingly focusing on the historical and theoretical aspects of computing. The only Dr. Racket command we are learning now is recursion. I find the function, recursion, complicated, so I am glad that our professor is taking a few classes to teach it. If we can use cheat sheets again in the final exam, I think I will finish this course with a satisfying mark.