Day 1

Today we woke up at 7, much to my distress as it took me at least 15 minutes to work up the courage to get out of bed. After showering and heading down to breakfast, we realised we would have some difficulty spending the $25 voucher that had been given to us. After some thought, I went with some pancakes, a cappuccino, croissant and a muffin, and after gulping down the last of my coffee, we rushed down to the labs for our first exam.

The exam itself was quite nice. I got out the first 3 problems within 2 hours, but then spent the last 3 working on a 300 line brute force to the last. This ended up scoring 50%, which gave me the best score along with Kenneth, who also was stuck on the same problem. We then took $12 from Bernard and checked out the lunch options (I was quite amazed that we were given 25 dollars for breakfast and then only 12 for lunch). We ended up going to a nice asian restaurant and got laksas.

After lunch, we went back to a seminar room and looked at the problems we had just solved. Lego (the problem that I had got 50% on) turned out to be, surprise surprise, a massive implementation pain, with a smart observation. After gaining a bit of an insight into it, we went to the labs again and attempted to solve it. At about 7:30, just before we went to dinner, I removed my last bugs and got it out, a feeling worth the time spent on it.

Dinner was very interesting tonight. We went to some Spanish restaurant, which was incredibly overpriced and really wasn't that great. Because of this, we went to coles afterwards, and bought a few bread roles to satisfy our hunger. This ended our day, and we went back to the hotel to relax and rest for tomorrow's exam.