Notes

I’m not lying. Problem is whenever I think something is bothering you, I tried to work it out and tried to explain it here to you of what might that be. But all you do is left me these puzzles I sometimes don’t understand. It's not fair. If you’d actually talk to me, it wouldn’t be like this.

Here’s my situation. I got hired by an external employer on a project, it is supervised by my university though as I’m still a student, and I will be having my public presentation at the beginning of May, a couple of weeks left, last time I heard this year's going to be somewhere around the 8th. Employer from various companies and industry professionals will be there. There are many potential outcomes, you could be offered a job or an internship that will lead to a job if you’re still finishing your degree, or, although rare, a keen company could decide to takeover the project and pay a sum of money. Or my university could pay a sum of money for the project to be applied university wide, this is rare too as it only applies to project that are general-purpose with loads of potential application and mine kinda does. The best presented project will get an award, the rest walk out with nothing. Imagine doing this, doing programming competition (hackathon), attending technical meetups and keeping up with the workload from my uni. You can’t compare an engineering course with other science/social/art/business course etc. , especially courses from universities of a different caliber. You can only compare it with other engineering course, math, physics or medicine from universities of the same calibre. My uni is top 30 global, for my course, they’re 4th in the UK. I’m on track to get a first class degree, that’s the top of the foodchain as in cum laude term. I already have things lined up this summer, so I’m not going back. I might go back in December or Easter next year but I’m not sure why I should. Also you’ve got to prepare for hackathon, you can’t just walk in empty handed expecting to win something. I attended Google Hashcode, teambased programming competition organised by Google. I also registered for Google CodeJam, same competition, individually solved problems, which I might just have to withdraw from as I have not done any preparation.

My project is on Internet of Things. Basically there is a shift where all electronics is connected to the Internet. The lightbulb, the heating, AC, etc. Everything. Controlled via the Internet. On your mobile phone, PC or anything. It makes smart decision. As I made a rudimentary Artificial Intelligence, basically the software learns your behaviour and weighs it against the outside temperature, humidity, etc. Then find the appropriate temperature for a given activity to be conducted in that building, for example, optimal temperature to study and to do yoga are different. The same applies for lighting and cooling. The difference mine is room-based IoT. Controlled with a voice assistant device, Amazon Alexa. Users integrated with Google accounts and schedule is room-based booked through Google Calendar.

Promo video https://youtu.be/GbecyCRZ640 explained to what stage my team managed to get within two months of work. Team of 6, but we only managed to get 5 people. Only 3 actually work on it. I made back it back in December, we had to submit our overall progress 2 months into the project. I looked like shit since I had not slept and had to shoot the video in the morning for it to be submitted before midday.

My schedule this year and probably next year too is hectic. I thought you’d understand. I thought you’re not going anywhere. It’s my fault. Hopefully, it’s just one big misunderstanding. I’m out of option and I’m tired of waiting, of getting hurt for all the wrong reasons. Neither of us meant it. No more tricks and games and second guessing. I’m here now, why torture yourself with the what-ifs. All you have to do is make the call. If you want to know something, ask. Don’t make assumptions. I tell you all the truths. What else do you want to know.

I would still take you. I hold on for so long on puzzle pieces you left. It broke me if it all for nothing. If you want to say something just say it to me.

My only way to you pretty much burnt to ashes, she’s a mutual friend of him. And pretty sure he’s on better term with her than she’s with me. But I stupidly still hope you’d pick me over anyone else. Even after all this. I’m still here. You just have to make the call. To me, you’re the priority, the only choice, from day 1 where I made up my mind. And if I can’t be the same then what’s the point.

Was it because I deactivated my account? I mean I do it from time to time cause it was too distracting. I honestly will give you the password if you want to.

I’m telling you the honest absolute truth. If somehow you still find it in yourself that you still want the same thing, after all this, then tell me before I leave on the 20th. Cause I’d still take you. But I want to see you, in person, alone. I don’t want it to be like this. It’s why you hold on for so long yourself. It’s why I hold on for so long myself. But how can I clear everything up if you never gave me the chance to do so? I hope it’s just misunderstanding.

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION GIVEN BY THE EMPLOYER:

BEST NGEN
(pronounce “best engine”)

The Building Energy Control System Towards the Next GENeration builds on commodity IoT hardware to enable user friendly control of small to medium scale building energy consumption from heat, cooling and light. The goal is to combine convenience with more sustainable building operation.

Building on the Samsung Smart Home device range in this project we would like you to construct a control system together with a web interface to monitor energy consumption and enable remote control.

The solution will include
- design and construction of a server component to interface with the Samsung Smart Things hub to monitor current energy consumption state of associated heaters
- design and implement a web interface to remotely change energy consumption
- if time permits, present statistics of building energy use in relation to occupancy

All the teams and the projects they worked on detailed here, including mine: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zwhMdlYcvWZ9xE87QGG510iZnDH1ZhV_pvgnWreceZw/edit?usp=sharing