The final class has arrived, and I’m already exhausted. I have spent years preparing for this semester, and now that it’s here, I’m nearly ready to walk away. It’s been a grueling year working full time and trying to find time for thesis work on top of class work. I realized looking at the current state of my thesis project I’m going to have to start marking somethings as “complete after presentation.” It’s just too much to wrap up in the two months ahead. The problems is that I am coding, designing, and animating instead of doing just one of those tracks. I wanted to be well-rounded, and it happened. However, being more generalized and less specialized creates 2-3x the amount of work if you still want it to look good.
It looks like I might have to forgo some planned illustrations and hold of on some animations for my final presentation, but I intend to complete them even everything isn’t perfectly polished for the final presentation. I’m hoping they will see my project as advanced far enough to be able to graduate. Most of the direct feedback I’ve received thus far is that I should just wrap up and present—in other words, it’s good even unfinished. I, of course, being a perfectionists, want to have everything finished when I launch it to the world. If I really plan on doing that by presentation time though, I may have to take another week of work off. Hopefully it won’t come to that!