plates of the truck

I'm not sure it was that big ford trucks or some other brand.. but I sure saw the driver. It was that sleepless nights which drove that truck over me. As I mentioned in my previous posts, this week was a real killer for me. I better start first from the good parts: On saturday I went to EksiLimon with 2 friends, there was live music and the band was also from Bogazici University. The songs were old and very cliche but they were good. I can't remember if I danced or not but we definitely had fun.

Following that I came across some old pictures in composto web server. Photos from the first official day of my life in Bogazici University. Old good times... I was on the orientation desk of compec even though I was a freshman too =) . I can't see many of these people for a long time now. We have too much to catch up.

Any ways this was the good part. Now the evil part starts:the perceptron, artificial neural networks project was due for Wednesday but with the help of berkay I managed to write the code on Monday. Also on Monday night I wrote down the text parts of my project progress report, which is also due for Wednesday. I sent for the approval of the project advisor but she replied that It would be better for her to check the final version of the material. The reply came on Tuesday midnight and I also realized that I had a missing part on neural networks project. You realized what this means right? another sleepless night of course. I made the changes for the projects at 4:30am and went to bed to get up at 8. I strait went to school and made the returned corrections from the teacher. I was trying hard to finish because the sooner I finish sooner I go to bed again - good motivation. I kept listening very loud metal music to stay awake and ate a lot of dry grapes in order to stay alive (also a lot of dark chocolate). I sent the papers back at 3pm an I was in my bed at 3:30. I think I slept till 6pm so that I could study for my midterm on Thursday. I studied till 2 and went to bed got up, more studying and then the midterm and then more courses and then..... here we are.. now I can get some rest.

Do not forget to sleep enough....

ps: have you checked out the new solid state drives... they are fantastic! (update: and their prices are astronomic - 32GB<->$700 - are they insane?)

java socket - c socket - what the hell is a socket?

I spent 2 sleepless nights trying to establish a common platform for the communication of the two parts of the project. At last I was able to send and receive packets from each sides. Next step is embedding the gui and control software to socket programs in each side.

Enough with this busy busy talking, I had fun on wednesday, it was Hande's birthday so we celebrated it (worst part was buying the presents). After that she went to her family so I went back to school - but this time for free food =) Selen invited me and other buddies from the department to have a feast both for our eyes and stomach. The foods were really delicious and the I had a very good time chatting with friends.

I paid back this fun with working till 4am for the meeting on friday morning. At least I feel a little relaxed when I think of the next week. One of the midterms are postponed so I officially have 1 midterm, 1 mid-term project report, neural networks project deadline and a matlab homework. How nice... I started to feel stressed again.

Couple of hours ago levent called about the plan for tonight - then he decided to postpone that... I was tired anyways so it'll be better for me, most probably we'll meet tomorrow - I'm looking forward to see Galip Tekin in his office (hehe =)