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Let me start with January.

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Final Year project was well under way. I knew full well what the new year meant to the project. Unlike last year where the project was at the planning phrase and i had to do up questionnaires and quizzes for the students to solve, i've also read a good deal of research papers and theses in order to help prepare the writing of my own.

The first week of the school was the slackest (Who knew?) but for me, i am required to follow up on the details of the students performances on my quiz. I am supposed to be able to derive some form of relationship between this particular quiz and a later midterm exam. On hindsight and retrospect writing this now, it feels crazy that i was able to pull a grade out of this project in the end.

I did gave myself some break, a limit on the time i was allowed to finish my analysis of the results. It was also to take into account the later analysis of the midterm results. Unlike most other projects that my peers undertook, whose work started early last year, my project seemed to be starting only just.

On the other hand, i have had my hands pretty full with my remaining modules. Medical Physics and Tabletop Game Design.

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Medical Physics was a pretty interesting subject. My original goal was to attain a specialization in Biophysics after all. However i felt that i will not be able to cope with 2 major Physics modules on top of my Project. It was with great hesitation that i overcame in order to drop Soft Condensed Matter Physics for Tabletop Game Design. Although i did not regret that decision, i have to say that i would have been in a...more advantageous position if i forged on.

I have only my own hindsight to blame for it.

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Tabletop Game Design on the other hand was pretty relaxing. Lessons were in 3-hour sessions. In the first and second month mostly, the class just played whatever game the lecturer brought into class, while being exposed to the game mechanics and terminologies frequently used in the tabletop games.

Little did i know that it would escalate to really hectic levels later on.

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That was January.

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