RM200+
77 pages.
15,888 words.
5 days.
It's an achievement I'm afraid to be proud of, due to the fact I had 7 weeks to do it but nevertheless left it until the very end, until when there's finally some pressure, some sense of urgency, that I'm forced to start work on it.
And it's an achievement simply because I've completed it on time. Miraculously. From the very start I wasn't very concerned about it because all these while in my uni years I've been able to complete a 5k words assignment in 1 day, therefore I was thinking: "10k words project shouldn't take me more than 3 days!"
How very naive of me. swt
reading a sample copy trying to understand why is it like it is. WHY??? @@"
It was only until I've started working on it that I realised how different it was compared to all my previous assignments. Well to be it bluntly I used to bullshit (successfully) through my previous assignments, with few hours preparation of searching for information and reference sources, and then 1 day of bull-rushing, it'd be completed. English too geng edy u see =P
But this final year project of mine was a different kind of beast. Utterly different. I underestimated the time needed to get the questionnaires all filled up and recollected, misunderstood certain chapters hence wasted time needing to figure it out, and the most serious part was I've underestimated the time needed to analyze the data collected, which was the part that took up most of my time, 3 full days specifically, despite accounting only for 3k words of the whole assignment. I ended up with 7.5k words for this one single chapter wtf.
dining-table converted into my workstation
with snowman-milo for companion on my lonely nights
The project was due on Friday 5th of February, due time was 5pm.
I finished it on Thursday 4th of February, 6pm. Rushed to Wangsa Melawati (the place where I stayed for most of my lives). Handed it to a photocopy specialist I sourced from the internet, and the worker there said the special hard-cover-thesis-binding can be completed EARLIEST on Friday 4pm.
Which was like 1 hour before my due time. And it was the estimated EARLIEST possible time wtf. I was like, WTF???
But there were no choice because that place was the fastest I've found, hence I've just handed the original copy over, pleaded them to be swift and fast with their responsibilities wtf, and then went back home and hoped for the best. Another sleepless night on top of the many previous.
Fortunately, my prayers was answered and by 345pm the other day, the worker from the shop called telling me my 2 copies of thesis was done. Anxiously but at the same time excitedly, I hurried to the shop from my house, picked up my stuffs, rushed back to HELP within 40 minutes, reaching there around 4:45pm, and then successfully passing up my FYP on time.
Phew. A big fucking PHEW.
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my room during the last 2 days of the rushing period
I would never forget the period when I was rushing the project, that particular period when I was repeatedly analyzing 29-fucking-questions INDIVIDUALLY and coming up with elaborations for each and every fucking one of it. CRAZY I TELL YOU -_-
But what I wouldn't wanna forget most was the feeling, when the whole thing was finally completed. Finished. The End-ed.
It was indescribable, the feel of satisfaction, the sense of accomplishment, to finally complete such an difficult task, and to a further extent, to complete the last task required for my tertiary education.
The presentation that I needed to do on the following Monday was a piece of cake compared to this. And after all's done and dusted, I said to myself, "Is this all?"
A sense of disbelief overwhelmed me as I was left nothing else to do except for results waiting.
What~E~Ver~~~
There's still a long road ahead of me, and I long for new challenges like these to keep my hunger for accomplishment satisfied. Yes I'm being serious when I say I like more of these plz.
Like what Admiral Farragut used to yelled in the face of danger, "FULL SPEED AHEAD!" XD
