I have a bit of a break today, next exam is not until Friday (wednesday now).
2 Exams down, but unfortunately it seems something is wrong with my Axim which I use as a planner, not good. The batteries are either dead or it somehow bricked itself (turns on, Dell symbol flashes, turns itself off). The problem is I keep all my homework assignments / exam days / ect in my Axim and it has not been backed up to my computer for over 2 weeks...
In any case, the first exam was one of my GPA booster electives called "Race, Class, and Crime" I dominated it with a 98% on the exam, then we got a 7% curve taking me to 105%.
Second exam was today, part of my core curriculum, Algorithms I. I was pretty worried about this exam because he homework he gives us is really hard, taking upwards of 24 hours (cumulative) to finish. We usually start on it days before its due and work on it a little bit each day, because otherwise is physically impossible to complete. Not because of volume, only like 10-15 problems, but because you really need to think about each problem for a while. In any case, he made the exam about 100x easier than the homework, essentially the exam was pulled straight from the homework and class lessons, so since we reviewed both of those before the exam I think I got at least a 90% on it, but there were only 3 small 2 pt questions I know for sure I missed.
So, at the moment I am taking a short break, then getting ready to start studying for quiz in another class that starts at 4:00 pm. Oh Joy...
drpepper said:
Youme said:
Can't someone else step into ryodoan's shoes and organize one for once?
sure. but i dont want to step on his shoes. we might have a mini game day with the contest entries as the rotation. still in the works tho.
I have no problem with someone else organizing things, just please try to follow the template I have running, although I do need to re-organize the game day template to make some items more clear.
Oh, and its the UK's turn to have the Saturday Gameday.
Here is a brief checklist:
- Make a post on the calender with the template
- Make a post on Colts Playground directing people to the thread with a brief summery (date, GMT time, ect)
- Schedule the event on the Steam Community for Saturday + Sunday.
- Keep the 1st post updated, I recommend a closing time of Friday at 5:00 pm.
Here's a thought. Rather than scheduling our get-together every week, lets just make it a permanent event. Every weekend, including friday night, we can say that all members are encouraged to hop on any of our servers and get to know their fellow mappers a bit.
Well, here are some problems I see with going every week:
- We still need to plan it, get map submissions, update posts, make posts in all the right places, upload the maps, set the rotation, set the redirect, ect... It can be a bit draining to do it every week, maybe if we alternate planners it could work.
- If we start friday night, map submissions need to end on Thursday, and most mappers it seem like to have the extra time going up to Friday.
- I also worry about getting enough submissions to keep it going on an every weekend basis, especially since the contest is winding down.
- Finally, I am not sure what attendance would be like on an every week basis.
All in all, I am not opposed, but I think it needs some more work before we decide to do it every week, there are lots of questions that need to be answered and details that need to be worked out.