Constructive Deconstruction

A Walk In My Head

March 4, 2007 on 1:52 am | In Personal Rants | No Comments

My entire week was a mad rush of going to school(sometimes late) and rushing back home to grab a nap and then preparing for the next day’s worth of schoolwork.

You see, i’m in the midst of my Design and Development Project(DDP) where we work in teams of 6 to design a mechanical ‘mouse’ that can traverse a map and follow a black line. There’s more that it can do but to cut a long story short, i’m stuck with a lab partner that doesn’t know much. But that’s fine really because I don’t think I knew much either.

But I think he’s lazy.

He keeps pushing all the work to me citing a myriad of reasons like, "I’m not good at programming" or "I think we do it together" and then proceeds to con me into programming all the stuff while he’s just coming up with simple logic which even a secondary school kid could come up with.

The biggest bomb came when I asked him to do some wire wrapping(to take those wires and coiling it around an electrical pin…10secs worth of work…15 at most.) and he goes on to say, "I’m not good at it man. Plus, i’m not sure how to read your design. I think you should do it."

SO…I am doing the programming. I am also doing the assembly programming. I am also designing the circuit. And I am wiring the entire thing. What is he doing? He insists that his contribution in terms of the logic is something big.

It’s really pissing me off considering he’s an Indian Scholar.

then again…everyone knows what kind of reputation most of them have…

But that’s an entry for another day…

On a final note, for those of you who don’t already know…i’ve actually got a domain at www.ridzuan.info . It’s currently re-directing to here but soon i’ll be moving this personal blog over to that page permanently…Just wanted to let you know…

Have a good weekend~!