Final Blog Post of Spring 2021

This semester was wild because of the outage, school trying to slowly move us back into the classroom, and debates on the COVID vaccine. I am glad it is all over and hope fall 2021 will be a step toward getting things back to normal. This week in terms of research, there has not been any. My new stresses are getting transferred to ASU, applying for scholarships, and stressing over passing my summer courses. First, I need to get the ASU application out of the way and pass my summer classes to graduate on time to be eligible for the ASU TRAIN Scholarship. Then, if I am accepted, I apply to many scholarships to attend and then deal with the nervousness of starting over at a new school where you have to learn how everything works there differently from what I already know here at community college. Everything is happening so fast, and I am trying to stay calm. So, for the next two weeks, I am going to give my brain a break. I will read all the books I have been wanting to, working out as much as I want, and maybe practice a little bit of java code here and there to handle my summer semester smoothly and have another well-deserved break, then be ready for the fall! I am also trying to figure out my presentation points for my poster as well. I cannot wait to see everyone's projects and presentations. 

Research paper final and final exams !!!

 Working on my final paper, I was tempted to go deeper into my research because there is so much more to analyze, but I don't have enough time to incorporate as much as I would like; a semester is not enough time! If I am accepted back in the fall, I want to go deeper into my research and hopefully get closer to actually recreating the research methods I have found. Today I discovered that bats droppings can be an organic alternative, and there is so much when it comes to the chemistry of their excrements! I wanted to include so many more articles I found with chemistry and bioengineering but simply listing them won't do the paper justice. Final exams have been draining, but we made it to to the finish line! I hope everyone has an awesome summer and takes advantage of their free time if they aren't busy. I myself am taking summer classes to accomplish my goal of graduating in two years, kind of frightened. However, I am terrible at math and slow at programming, two of which I will be taking acceleratedly! I literally bought so many statistics books online because I am scared. 

Week of big final assignments and practice exams

The end of the semester is finally approaching, and we are being hit with 100 point assignments, practice exams, and final exams. It has been really hectic with the limited time we have left to complete my programming projects. This week as far as the project since I had time to focus on exploring Unity and not papers,  I was attempting to fix problems I ran into I was examining Josh's project because I needed help with the background and finally discovered that my project does not have to consist of the same background the entire game and there can be layers added. I want to add layers to build the bottom portion of the scene with sand and maybe a road? My next goal is to add either object on the bottom to be the sand and then slowly move the bat through the scene into maybe an abandoned house and add more background layers to make the bat fly through a longer scene. I have not started coding yet because the graphics themselves take forever and have taken longer than I thought they would. I now see why game developers take years to release a game.