A picture says 15,000 words

My honours year dissertation as a word cloud.

Deadlines, workshops and twisted ankles

I've not written much here lately; it's been a hectic few weeks with university coursework deadlines. Thankfully most of them have now passed and I can get back to focussing on my project. My dissertation for my honours project is due three weeks tomorrow. I'm not too worried about it, having started in September last year! I've been doing most of the writing before actually doing the work (an approach I very much prefer for research), as I always feel more confident going forward with a planned and reasoned about methodology.

January was a really good month for running, and February started really positively. Alas, for the last two weeks I've been unable to run because of a dodgy ankle. I'm avoiding running with it until it's recovered a bit more - I don't want to risk damaging it further and waiting even longer for it to heal.

A few weeks ago we ran the Glasgow CompSoc Android workshop (which I first mentioned in November last year). It was a fun experience. I've never really stood up and taught something to a group of people before, so that was quite exciting. I'd quite like to do some similar lectures/workshops next year for CompSoc.

My goals for March are to get my project out of the way, and hopefully pick up running again once my ankle recovers some more. Looking forward to wrapping up my honours project. It's been fun, and I'm sure there's a lot I'll be able to write about in a paper afterwards, but it'll be nice to take a break from everything. I love doing research, it's just a shame that lectures and deadlines have to interfere with it so much as an undergraduate!