Time management is a skill that can be learned

The week flew by in a blink of an eye! My first week back in NUS after spending a year on NOC was a breeze, just 2 class for the entire week. Week 2 is a whole different story all together with all classes coming into place, my roles as a resident assistance for N-House, the house for entrepreneurs @ PGP, working on CS3216, 48hours sleepless shell business case, working on my own startup idea and catching up with friends whom i have not seen for the past year. With all the groups formed for the rest my classes, time is going to be a rare commodity. Nonetheless, I am enjoying CS3216 thus far.

The people I meet in the course is nothing short of amazing. From the professor to the tutors and my classmates, every single one has strong capability or experience that blows me away. Jim has a ton of experience given the entrepreneurial path he has chosen and I look forward to more of his stories. Michael has scratched his own itch and came up with modivle which is a elegant piece of work. Peggy is an extremely focused individual who has an insane appetite to learn from others. The list could go on and on and it would take days to write about everyone.

Back to the people who are the most important to me. Being with my teammate, it made me feel humbled and to a extent inferior as I could not contribute in terms of developing the application. Looking at them tirelessly writing lines of code while i take up the easier job of writing reports makes me feel like I am not contributing as much as them. Thus i am making sure I put in 110% for the report to ensure we get the maximum grade possible!!

Our application is coming along nicely, the basic features are made available as we speak. Being an educational application, I have spoken to a few people in the field who will be potential people to be our beta(or alpha?) testers. I see tremendous potential in the application we are developing and and I hope this will be more than just an assignment. If possible, I would like to bring this out as something we could work on for the coming future.

Lastly, I was looking forward to the Saturday's workshop as it was talking mainly about the front end side of development. I knew I was interested in that and I had to be there. However the 48hour shell business case totally screwed it up. I was up the whole night with my team to work on the case and submitted it at 9am. That left me an hour to shower and head to the 10am workshop. I ended up nodding away for the most part of it which I am terribly ashamed of. Not only did I not learn from the experiences of the tutors, I made a bad impression by sleeping in class which I don't normally do. I will make sure it definitely not happen again in the future!

Looking forward to the next class with my peers!