Saturday, April 25, 2009

War-time

Week 7, the week after Easter break and the busiest week of all. For TRC there is only two tests, 1 assignment and one project. Lucky for us. :) If not, we would have died. Actually i would have died. 1st test was Electronics and it was like a fatal lethal poison, where it kills you INSTANTLY. The paper was just plain hard, wait no, Very Very VERY EXTREMELY hard. The question are really based totally on your understanding, where nothing is given before (lectures and tutes).And if you have a slight doubt, you will difficulty answering the paper. It was just a to-die-for paper. Then there is Computing. Im fine with the paper, seeing that Electronics was so bloody hard, nothing can beat the difficulty.

Then after the two tests, at the end of the week, which is today, we are having our Warman competition. We are to build two devices to run a L-shaped track, one purely mechanical and one purely electrical. It starts with one device from the starting line, where it is required to run a certain distance with a baton, reaches the exchange area where the second device is placed. The first device then passes the baton to the second device, and the second device will continue the run to the finish line. Sounds easy? Sorta, but there is the speed taken into account. You got to be as fast as you can. :) But many consequences comes with speed and there must be a compromise with speed, if not the device might never make it to the finish line.

This is it, our 6 weeks hard work. Ok maybe just... 4 weeks, one day per week to be exact, is all in this 30 second to decide.

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