(no subject)
I'm feeling vaguely positive about my final year project now.
I met up with my supervisor talking about where we needed to go, and what I was doing, and what little epiphany I had with regard to how I was going to implement it. From what I can gather, my supervisor is a bit like me in that his thoughts seem to be a weird little multi-dimensional plasma storm (the image makes sense in my head), so when he gets to talking about topics he knows a lot about, he assumes that you know the little maze in his head and all those little shortcuts that he takes. This means that I have to smile and nod when he's talking about certain things because what comes out of his mouth has to be simple human language, which doesn't seem to be an adequate medium for what's going on in his head. I'm aware that I can occasionally do that myself, and for those who've had to endure it, I apologise.
One wordstorm later, I leave with this feeling that my project is somehow simplified, and that my workaround was one that negated the necessity for a very tricky bit of the system that I didn't relish the thought of.
I still have a lot of work to do, but it's managable, and more than a slight chunk of it now involves python (in a webapp sense). This is exploration of home ground... it makes me happy. In fact python makes me feel like this.
It makes me feel like I can do this, and if I can, there's potential for a publication. That's a wow factor.
I met up with my supervisor talking about where we needed to go, and what I was doing, and what little epiphany I had with regard to how I was going to implement it. From what I can gather, my supervisor is a bit like me in that his thoughts seem to be a weird little multi-dimensional plasma storm (the image makes sense in my head), so when he gets to talking about topics he knows a lot about, he assumes that you know the little maze in his head and all those little shortcuts that he takes. This means that I have to smile and nod when he's talking about certain things because what comes out of his mouth has to be simple human language, which doesn't seem to be an adequate medium for what's going on in his head. I'm aware that I can occasionally do that myself, and for those who've had to endure it, I apologise.
One wordstorm later, I leave with this feeling that my project is somehow simplified, and that my workaround was one that negated the necessity for a very tricky bit of the system that I didn't relish the thought of.
I still have a lot of work to do, but it's managable, and more than a slight chunk of it now involves python (in a webapp sense). This is exploration of home ground... it makes me happy. In fact python makes me feel like this.
It makes me feel like I can do this, and if I can, there's potential for a publication. That's a wow factor.