Pikachu, i choose you!
"Pika, pika..."
Finding pains in looking for a suitable final year project. To look for a nice, friendly supervisor or to search for a interesting yet "do-able" project? Been looking for projects for the past few days while at work, and decided to focus on communication projects which are able to meet my requirements:
1) 90% programming, OUT
It really sucks to sit infront of the pc all day trying to write programs after programs and trying to debug debug and debug. After months of attachment doing programming, i could really tell from my personal experience. Its really boring sometimes to communicate with a machine, whatsmore it is so easy to grow a tummy from sitting all day right infront of a pc trying to "talk" to it.
2) Projects with lots of alogorithms, OUT
I never ever considered myself a maths whiz.
3) RF circuit design, OUT
And they said that industrial RF circuit designers could only bear daughters. Hmmm but then at least they have offsprings rite?
There weren't much projects to choose after the filtering.
Nevertheless, my partner and i still managed to send emails out to some profs to get some discussions done on the projects, and hopefully to secure one of our preferances.
Somehow i have this idea that fyp is supposed to be students choose projects and supervisors, and not the other way round where the projects and supervisors choose you. You showed interest in the project from the topic, the scope and the seeing possiblities of doing it well and trying to learn more knowledge and gain experience on certain areas of engineering. That is why we approach the professor, hopeful that he or she could guide us to achieve what we think we can achieve from or for this project.
But what i thought does not seems too true.
When we met with the project supervisor, it was more of a get to know you session, just a brief introduction on the projects. It was like an interview. You could secure the project by how well you can sell yourself, sell you confidence, sell your crap. Both of us weren't really up to it.
Project supervisors, do not try to remember your name but by your attachment company. The first question he popped was,
"So which company are you on attachment with?"
"Tan Ah Kow Technologies"
"Oh ya, They deal with semiconductors. So are they still designing them?"
~blah blah blah~
At least Tan Ah Kow Technologies is renown for its semiconductors, more crap to bark at. The prof even wrote our company name beside our names, stating that its easier to remember us. Win liaoz, brand us with our attachment companies.
Project supervisors do not judge you by your interest nor your enthusiasm. They just ask how many As you got? WTH, all the woo ha about your working attitudes, your character, your EQ which are more important these days, the hell with that. Some profs even ask for your transcript. We were not good at attempting to cover up our not so zai results. At least we showed our virtue of being honest.
Project supervisors are not always prepared to meet you. We met this prof who showed us his programs and talked until we were more blur than we thought this project was supposed to be. There were a couple of times there was silence in the room, where you watch me, i watch him, and with the program running on the screen. I couldn't help but peep our his shoulders to see his shelves of pills and medication, and wondered if he kept his appropriate dosage of drugs upon seeing his bloodshot eyes.
After half a day in school, the chance of securing a project, 20%
Felt so sianz. Wasted our time to go back ntu. If the profs wanted A grade students, they might as well state so in the projects description and prerequisite.
"I want A students only. 10As maybe, 20As stand a more chance, straight A students please forward me your matric no, and i will add you through my Stafflink right away, no questions asked!"
Guess one option is to act like Sunday Girls from the famous taiwanese variety show Super Sunday and shout "选我, 选我!" at the staff lobby. Maybe kawaii girls could stand a better chance than geeky guys without wonderful A results.
Finding pains in looking for a suitable final year project. To look for a nice, friendly supervisor or to search for a interesting yet "do-able" project? Been looking for projects for the past few days while at work, and decided to focus on communication projects which are able to meet my requirements:
1) 90% programming, OUT
It really sucks to sit infront of the pc all day trying to write programs after programs and trying to debug debug and debug. After months of attachment doing programming, i could really tell from my personal experience. Its really boring sometimes to communicate with a machine, whatsmore it is so easy to grow a tummy from sitting all day right infront of a pc trying to "talk" to it.
2) Projects with lots of alogorithms, OUT
I never ever considered myself a maths whiz.
3) RF circuit design, OUT
And they said that industrial RF circuit designers could only bear daughters. Hmmm but then at least they have offsprings rite?
There weren't much projects to choose after the filtering.
Nevertheless, my partner and i still managed to send emails out to some profs to get some discussions done on the projects, and hopefully to secure one of our preferances.
Somehow i have this idea that fyp is supposed to be students choose projects and supervisors, and not the other way round where the projects and supervisors choose you. You showed interest in the project from the topic, the scope and the seeing possiblities of doing it well and trying to learn more knowledge and gain experience on certain areas of engineering. That is why we approach the professor, hopeful that he or she could guide us to achieve what we think we can achieve from or for this project.
But what i thought does not seems too true.
When we met with the project supervisor, it was more of a get to know you session, just a brief introduction on the projects. It was like an interview. You could secure the project by how well you can sell yourself, sell you confidence, sell your crap. Both of us weren't really up to it.
Project supervisors, do not try to remember your name but by your attachment company. The first question he popped was,
"So which company are you on attachment with?"
"Tan Ah Kow Technologies"
"Oh ya, They deal with semiconductors. So are they still designing them?"
~blah blah blah~
At least Tan Ah Kow Technologies is renown for its semiconductors, more crap to bark at. The prof even wrote our company name beside our names, stating that its easier to remember us. Win liaoz, brand us with our attachment companies.
Project supervisors do not judge you by your interest nor your enthusiasm. They just ask how many As you got? WTH, all the woo ha about your working attitudes, your character, your EQ which are more important these days, the hell with that. Some profs even ask for your transcript. We were not good at attempting to cover up our not so zai results. At least we showed our virtue of being honest.
Project supervisors are not always prepared to meet you. We met this prof who showed us his programs and talked until we were more blur than we thought this project was supposed to be. There were a couple of times there was silence in the room, where you watch me, i watch him, and with the program running on the screen. I couldn't help but peep our his shoulders to see his shelves of pills and medication, and wondered if he kept his appropriate dosage of drugs upon seeing his bloodshot eyes.
After half a day in school, the chance of securing a project, 20%
Felt so sianz. Wasted our time to go back ntu. If the profs wanted A grade students, they might as well state so in the projects description and prerequisite.
"I want A students only. 10As maybe, 20As stand a more chance, straight A students please forward me your matric no, and i will add you through my Stafflink right away, no questions asked!"
Guess one option is to act like Sunday Girls from the famous taiwanese variety show Super Sunday and shout "选我, 选我!" at the staff lobby. Maybe kawaii girls could stand a better chance than geeky guys without wonderful A results.
Pikachu says "选我, 选我!"
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