Digital Wanderer

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Student Life - A Terrifying Exam

    This past Wednesday turned out to be extremely interesting.   We took a simply monstrous exam, compared to which all our previous torments pale. In my memory, there have been only two truly terrifying subjects like this one: artificial intelligence(2 exams) and databases(2 or 3 exams). In databases, I managed to get an automatic pass in all cases with great strain, and with artificial intelligence I managed to cope, but at a minimal level. I passed the last exam in AI in my master's degree with a record low mark for myself - a 41 .
But I am not ashamed of this, because even so, barely scraping by, I made it into the top 1/7 of students and received a scholarship.

    The subject I'm talking about now is called Prasību inženierija, that is, Requirements Engineering. It's about collecting and analyzing information from the customer of a software project in order to develop fairly strict criteria for each element of the final product, known as software requirements.

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Dug up something interesting on Wikipedia

Got an exam on the 5th on the method of mathematical construction of database structures, and here I am sitting at two in the morning reading random crap.

"Slovio iz a noo internashunal langwij wich fore hundrid millyun peepul on da hole erth unnerstan. Lurn Slovio nau!"

Sounds like a padonkaff phrase.  But in reality it's one of the many artificially created languages - called Slovio.

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SanDisk Sansa e140 MP3 Player

I finally bought myself an MP3 player. It was kind of strange, really—I’m supposedly a music lover, yet I only listened to music on my computer or an old CD Walkman.

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