Life of Åsmund
A student life
COUNTING SHEEP
Nov 20th
I’m tired. Dead tired. But quite happy, considering! It’s been a hard week, lots and lots of work, workout, school and other activities.
Right now I’m trying to determine the growth density of doped nanowires and it’s quite boring. It’s aproximately like counting sheep, they’re just smaller and luckily they don’t jump around. One sample to go …
I’m looking forward to a weekend; it’s packed, but the pace of everything slows down slightly.
I’m specially looking forward to Møbelringen Cup Sunday with Christina, Andreas and Ellen. The Norwegian handball ladies will play Russia (and win). It will be epic!
WHAT THE FUTURE BRINGS …
Oct 29th
Options and their probability
I have a lot of question going on in my mind these days. I don’t think about them all the time, but they’re there. I’m in my final year of my Masters degree in Electronics – uncertainty is getting closer.
I don’t know what I will do or where I will be after June 2010. And that’s a scary thought.
I have three possible and probable options
- Find a job
- Apply for a PhD position at NTNU
- Stay a student and take classes I like
To find a job is the “normal” thing to do, and what I consider it to be the most probable. The more I’ve been working on my project this fall, the more I find it intriguing to apply for a PhD position here at NTNU, I like what I do for my project. But do I like it enough to continue for 3-4 more years? Again an unanswered question.
The last thing on my list is to spend a 6th year in Trondheim as a student. I’ve been thinking of taking classes I haven’t been able to take during my time here. I’d like to learn more languages and to get more formal knowledge of computer science.
This post is a bit hard to wrap up, many thoughts and questions have popped into my mind as I’ve been writing.
I will have to figure it out. I will.
THE PROJECT
May 25th
Finally, today FX and I got a short talk with our tutor concerning our project. We’ve had difficulties with programming a least squares fitting algorithm in C and needed some help (I know there are libraries that implements this functionality already, but we’re not allowed to use them).
Basically we didn’t get too much out of our tutor, but we’re seeing him on Wednesday and he gave us a few hints about how to start coding.
We’re running a bit late as the report on this project has to be delivered on Friday this week. Luckily, most of the report is done (everything we’ve done throughout the year so far), so it’s only the last part that is missing from the report itself.
Tomorrow, there are two presentations to be made, one is QSE (Qualité, Sécurité et Environnement) (Similar to “Eksperter i Team” at NTNU) and the other is Conduit de projet (“Project execution”). I think we’ll do ok on both of them, we’re quite well prepared.