The last few days were quite busy, and happening to say the least. I spent the weekend coding the SFS assignment for the distributed systems class. Actually it didn’t turn out to be all that hard. I mean sure it was difficult, but most of the difficulty was because I procastrinated for so long! :-D The assignment itself was quite straight forward, barring a few issues. And in the end, it was really cool to see the code actually running. And then I could brag around (say what, I made a distributed file system, beat that!)
This was on Monday. I had the DS mid-term coming up on tuesday, but for the past week I had been having this incredible urge to move over to Debian that I just couldn’t stand it any more and I thought, what the hell, its only going to take a few hours at most. Although it didn’t turn out to be quite that way, I did make the move to Debian that day itself, and I’m really glad that I did. Within a few hours I was up and running with all the customizations I had earlier (including my own custom compiled kernel!). I’m really loving Debian!
Tuesday morning was frantic study for the mid-term. The mid-term was really cute, though I messed up one easy question. But it was open notes, and you could work it out if you listened in the class and/or read the papers thoroughly. And the questions were precise, there were no “there-is-no-right-or-wrong” type of questions in this paper! But now I have a lot of catching up to do. Research has taken a back seat, and so has the computational biology project. I hope to fire back on both of them starting tomorrow. High hopes I know, but we’ll soon find out. Right now I’m worried about what I’m going to say in the meetings tomorrow….