Hyper-pressure: final madness

:) <== This is how I feel right now.
:'( <== This is how I feel earlier this week.

It begins with some sample AI final project writeup's posted by our professor. I have thought that the final project is just to play around with some model, and shouldn't be a too time-consuming task. I can as well spend 4 whole days to do it. That's 40 hours of work, and should be more than enough. But....the sample project reports are all large-scale projects. I really mean large-scale. Something that's ready to publish to conferences or even journals. Oops.

I also have one final exam which will take moderate-amount of time to prepare. Some 10 hours I estimated. Then I started to look into lecture notes. Then I'm surprised that my concentration power is fading away pretty fast. And so it take me more time than expected. Hmm.

There's also the personal stuff (in some sense more urgent than schoolwork) floating around and I have to spend time figuring out what to do.

It seems that things are being settled down.

The seemingly overwhelming AI final project now looks better (thanks to the fact that I'm undergraduate :p). For us, all we have to do is implement a model and play with it. Then write a report. For graduate students things are different. They have to conduct original research, and then write a conference paper length writeup. Until now I reimplemented a model and extended it a bit, so I'll be fine.

Now that the project is okay, I also have time to study for final.

The other problem also seems to be fine, though some necessary steps have to be done next week to ensure safety. The detail is too personal, so I won't put it here.