Not Enough Time
I don't get it. The start of the semester only changed my schedule by adding two classes, one of which I haven't even had yet and the other which there is a short homework assigned for Friday. Between the two of them the increase in workload is minimal (so far, I expect Real Analysis to pick up and become the class from hell, as promised by the professor, real soon). Yet, both today and yesterday I feel like I have not had nearly enough time to do what I need to do. My two primary non-class related tasks right now are to route the Towed Array analog board and work out the deal with the covariance propagation in my paper (turns out while it seems to work and the method I used seems to be common in practice it isn't quite mathematically correct, or at least, not clear if it is mathematically correct). It seemed to take all day yesterday to work through a few pretty straight forward integrals. It took multiple tries because I'd keep making stupid errors and only catching them at the end of a long derivation when the result didn't come out right. In the end I only ended up showing that the question is still a question and now I'm in the middle of another, much bigger, calculation.
As for the towed array project, I ended up scrapping the tiny bit of layout I had already because I changed my schematic around, reordered the parts, etc. etc. I spent pretty much all day today trying to get the schematic all cleaned up and using nice, hierarchical blocks. That's still not done and I was working on it until 9pm.
Now I am going to make an attempt to start this homework because even though it is only two problems our professor said it was "really difficult, to give you a good idea of what to expect from this class".
I would really like it if each day was about twice as long so I felt like I actually got stuff done by the end of one.
As for the towed array project, I ended up scrapping the tiny bit of layout I had already because I changed my schematic around, reordered the parts, etc. etc. I spent pretty much all day today trying to get the schematic all cleaned up and using nice, hierarchical blocks. That's still not done and I was working on it until 9pm.
Now I am going to make an attempt to start this homework because even though it is only two problems our professor said it was "really difficult, to give you a good idea of what to expect from this class".
I would really like it if each day was about twice as long so I felt like I actually got stuff done by the end of one.