That's right, it's May. I can hardly believe it, this semester has gone by incredibly quickly. That means that in 14 days, David's life as a student will be no more. At least, as a full-time college student.

Today, um, was unexpected. Let's see, how to describe it. Eh, I'll just tell you what happened. I woke up, and went to Avnet for my applied project class to meet with our sponsors there regarding the Functional Requirements Specification for the project we're working on. In other words, this is the document which explains to them how to build the tool we've built a prototype of. To paint the picture, I saw the first version of this document at 5 p.m. the day before. In other words, I was along for the ride. The scheduled meeting, from 9:30-10:30, we spent discussing the document and such. It was lacking, severely - however, in all honesty not too bad for a first shot. Most of the lacking came from the fact that myself, my other developer teammate, and the developers at Avnet should have had significant input into the document. Instead we had 0. The next hour and a half I spent working on finishing the prototype based on suggested changes. I sat with our team's project manager, who was feeling like he had been run over by a truck. He was wading through the document trying to figure out where to go next.

The rest of my day was supposed to be open and available for doing stuff. Well, that stuff happened to be going back to Avnet in the afternoon to meet with one of their developers to discuss how we're going to be able to do what the tool needs to do. I quickly learned that the simplicity of the prototype screens was not going to be a simple implementation at all. Of course, I didn't exactly expect that it would be. After that, I had even yet a few more changes to the prototype. I came home and made those, and posted those back to the website. Tomorrow, which I originally had completely open, now has a 13:30 meeting to sit down again with the same folks and begin going through the document with screenshots of each page of the prototype with detailed description on how to make each page functionally work. Yipee! Actually, I do somewhat enjoy it. I wish however that our PM was more on top of things before today. Oh, and I'm meeting on Saturday with my team too, hopefully to get everyone on the same page and prepare for our numerous presentations coming up.

The rest of today will be spent going through a tutorial for my knowledge management course so that when that team meets on Saturday we can decide a topic for the last project in that class, which we haven't started yet. Yes, 2 weeks to go and still new projects in the works.