Kieran Senior

• Published:May 3rd, 2008
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I handed in my research project yesterday which was just over twenty-thousand words, not that word count matters in these kinds of things but you can imagine how many hours of work that is.  In fact, OpenOffice tells me that I had done 350 hours of work on that particular document, which is more than I expected it to be.

I had about two hours sleep the night before hand in as we stayed up until 4am then got up again at 6am. It’s not that it was a rush job towards the end but we had read over each others (me and a friend that is) and found a large number of errors throughout each others documents which needed fixing.  Then there were just all of the loose ends such as appendices.

Printing and binding actually took about 3 hours, so it’s a good thing we got up so early to make sure we were prepared. We ended up handing them in at about 2pm I believe, so an hour shy of the deadline.

I’ve learnt a lot from the project, mainly time management, research skills, development skills and research writing skills.

Now I have two exams left which start in three weeks time, and I’m very much unprepared for them as I’ve been focusing on the final year project so much. I slept for 12 hours last night so today isn’t a good day to be studying as my body seems to be trying to want the caffeine that I’ve been feeding it four times a day for the last two weeks.

Oh also my WordPress install died, so the change of theme is because I’ve forgotten what the one I was using was called. I have no idea why the install stopped working, I hadn’t changed anything.