The semester is coming to close, and this may be my scariest end to a semester yet.

In the last check-in post, Tamiasciurus Hudsonicus, I had mentioned that things were very chill on the academic front, I was keeping on top of things and was nowhere near stressed out. This has been the case for most of the semester. Generally, all of my stress is going to come from Computer Science, my major, and my toughest class, always. This year, there was a very light workload week to week in Comp Sci. There were quite a few weeks where we just didn’t have a lab, and instead just an exam. I have always vastly preferred exams to projects, which I can see is an unpopular opinion based on recent conversations with others. I always prefer to have one hour-long examination and just get it over with, than a multi-week monster, which, while I have time to work on it, I also have more time to actively stress about. There were also no programs this semester, a staple of St. Norbert’s Comp Sci classes. The programs are generally two week long projects, which would take over my life and stress me out every once in a while. For CS 225, we instead had a two month long research project, and the most recent revelation which will ruin my next week and a half.

I now have a final project assigned in Computer Science instead of a final exam. This was assigned a couple of hours ago as I am writing this. I cannot express how much this has dampened my mood. Usually I would have a final essay or something of the like completed before finals week even started and would be beyond prepared for any of the tests. I at least have my final essays already done, but having a stressor like this going really sucks the life out of me. If there is an active project like this, I really can’t let myself relax, I hate that part about myself. I could have made really solid progress, but I will just kind of sit there and be reserved and be all worried and stuff. The most I can do is work on it and do my best, it will all be done in about a week.

In other news, I have completed the Full Site editor script, but I still can’t feel 100% confident in my differentiation between Patterns and Template Blocks. They feel basically exactly the same, and wordpress’ documentation is not very conclusive in my opinion. I made my observations, and I hope they are adequate.

Anyway, it has been quite a fun semester, but I truly can’t wait for it to be over. If that sounded disrespectful, it is far from it. If all of my time was spent here during the semester, I wouldn’t love that it would be ending. It is not the Tech Bar, it is this final project. Godspeed.