CS373 Fall 2021 Week of 20 Sep — 26 Sep: Victor Xia

What did you do this past week?

This past week, I finished my algorithms assignment and filled out a lot of internship applications. I also completed my weekly assignments for my classes and started to become active at the gym again, since my ankle is finally feeling better. I also met up with my group to come up with ideas for our Project and submit a Request for Proposal. Lastly, I started to study for my algorithms midterm this upcoming Wednesday.

What’s in your way?

Currently, time management is in my way. Since midterm season is coming soon, I am finding it harder and harder to balance school work, recruiting, social life, and exercising.

What will you do next week?

Next week, I will continue studying for my algorithms midterm and take it on Wednesday. I will also tryout for Men’s Club Volleyball now that my ankle is healed on Tuesday and Thursday. My group is also meeting up on Monday to try and get a lot of the project figured out. I also have to complete some Hacker Ranks that I received from companies that I applied to, as they have a deadline to complete after you receive them. This week might be my busiest week yet, so I am hoping that I manage my time really well and get all of my weekly assignments done early so that I have extra time to study for the midterm.

If you read it, what did you think of the Paper #5: Pair Programming?

I thought that this paper was very insightful and efficiently explained the benefits of Pair Programming. I have experience with Pair Programming in the past, so I have been able to experience the benefits of it firsthand.

What was your experience of Python’s object model, list, tuple, set, dict, and iterators?

Since I haven’t really had much experience with Python before this class, I found these lectures to be very helpful in understanding how some of Python’s data structures work.

What made you happy this week?

This week, my ankle finally felt recovered enough to the point of where I could finally be active (it has been roughly 2.5 weeks since I sprained it pretty badly). It made me really happy being able to play Volleyball and workout my legs again.

What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?

My tip of the week is to start recruiting early and spread it out. I made the mistake of not really following this advice, which is currently making my life pretty stressful right now.