Monthly Archives: April 2009

And I thought the era of sleepless nights would come to an end!?

Posted by on April 17, 2009 2 comments

Jeah, right… Japanese course’s over but there’s still not more sleep in for me. Why, do you ask? Well, I might have mentioned that I was so looking forward to a very relaxed last semester with only a few exams, lots of contemplating about my thesis outside in the sunshine etc. So much for that! Ever since I got out of the language course I’ve been spending almost 100% of my time in the robotics lab…

Yep, the tries-to-get-into-the-robotics-world-championships-robot project. It’s great fun, it’s kinda cool, it’s really interesting and challenging but due to the closing in deadline it’s eating up hundreds of hours of developing, coding, testing, debugging etc. Is there someone out there who can teach me how to give that little bastard a bit of intelligence so it does the work on it’s own so I finally get to do some things I haven’t done in a while (e.g. sleeping, eating, doing sports etc.)? 😀

Japanese intensive course – or yet another era of sleepless nights

Posted by on April 2, 2009 4 comments

Booya! Having started from March 23rd, I’m currently attending a very good (and intensive) Japanese language course which takes place 9 hours a day, 6 days a week until this Saturday. Adding to that, I’ve also started implementing parts of the A.I. of a robot that’s supposed to go to the EuroBot 2009! As cool as all that stuff is, my daily sleep quota dropped to a new record-low around 3.5 hours a day… When I’m not in the classroom,in the robo-lab, in the gym or out running, I’m sitting at my desk spending hours and hours studying, repeating, preparing. *sigh* Well, at least the language course totally rocks 😀

But I’ll be celebrating and sleeping (finally) when it’s over 😉