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Originally Posted by Perna
Any motivation/adrenaline to be gotten working with/around friends? Are there other people in your program you suspect are behind or having trouble that you could hang with a few hours a week so you didn't feel so isolated?
I take it everyone's presentation is due the same day? I was thinking if they were sequential, you could maybe get your turn in "time" toward the end. Any favors you can call in, get others to do parts of your design change (now that you have tested it and found it wanting :-) Even a kid typing up the results might help? I remember a 20 page paper I was still writing the morning it was due and my friend was typing it as I was writing it (back in the 1960's before computers :-)
Anyway to streamline your design so it's not as "bulky"/fancy?
For me, I'd do things in parallel. I would take something I enjoy doing (reading, surfing the Web, online communities like this one, etc.) and work on the project for a bit, then do the other I enjoyed, then back to the project, then back to the other, etc. Get a bit of drafting/rest out of my race car :-)
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Thanks again, Perna.
Having spoken to friends on my course I've realised I'm far from the only one who's struggling to get the work done on time, which makes me feel a bit better... I think I'm getting closer to a defined design, tested a prototype of the redesign yesterday and confirmed some issues that I'd suspected were there but hadn't been sure. So now need to work around those...my supervisor is struggling to find a solution as well, though, which is comforting in a way because at least it means it is a proper problem and not just me being thick. :P
We don't get any control over the running order - it depends on when our supervisors are free to come and listen to our presentations - but it wouldn't really matter anyway because we're expected to listen to everyone else's so I wouldn't be able to do any last-minute work on the day unfortunately. But it's not the final hand-in so I'm hoping the tutor will cope if there's anything I haven't managed to do in time for the presentation...I'm managing to work a bit better now so with any luck I'll have sorted most of it by next Friday. Fingers crossed!