Speed Up

Almost all the famous world records were broken when the second half of the race was completed faster than the first. If you calculate your speed to ensure that you’ll have enough power until the end, you stand a good chance of getting to the finish line with your arms waving in the air, a big smile on your face and a medal waiting to be put around your neck.

We just finished the first half of the media lab, and now we need to start to speed up the pace. Everything is getting much harder, longer and more complex but I am enjoying each and every moment of the media lab.

At the end of this trek the “medals” that await us are our first degrees and I hope that we will all have enough power to speed up in the second half and not give up in the end.

Presentation

Usually I like to talk if I have an audience. I like to be at the spot lights and standing on the stage, I like to see the faces of the people trying to understand everything I’m talking about. The reason I said usually is because about two weeks ago I first felt the stomach ache that most people have before they start talking.

We had a really important presentation that week at the MiLab, we presented our project to a lot of amazing companies such as Microsoft, Amdocs, PrimSence etc… Our team was the first to talk and I was the first to present the team idea, for a few moments there I could feel my heart beating and my voice was shaking for the first few seconds. It made me feel thankful for the fact I have this opportunity to do it as a student and not in the real life for the first time. Well to be honest it made think about a lot more than that. Like I said at the previous post, this project is like having a baby on the way, the movie was the first ultrasound, and when I stood there on the stage in front of all of those people I thought about how much I would like to have this baby for real, OK, enough with the images, I meant to a real project!

About a month ago I went to hear Ishay Green lecture in the “CS for real” course we have at our school. I think one of the biggest things I learned from this lecture was to try and understand what you are good at and go to this direction. This experience at the Lab is teaching me a lot about my better and not so good abilities.