Hello and welcome back to my channel! So, today
I'm blogging as you can tell, and I kind
of wanted to have a theme / focus of
this vlog where I try to showcase my
life as a computer science student here
at Queen's University. And the reason I
wanted to do this was because one, I
wanted to incorporate more of this
aspect / phase of my life before I
graduate, and two if anyone who is maybe
considering applying to this program
stumbles across this video they might
find it interesting, intriguing, and
useful maybe as to be able to see what a
typical day of a fourth-year student in
computer science here looks like. So the
plan for right now is that I'm actually
going to the gym to do what people at
the gym do, I'll try to show you what the
gym looks like here at Queens, it's super
nice but I'm also scared of people
getting mad at me for filming them so
I'm honestly gonna try my best so yeah
let's go I guess.
I'm walking back from the gym now,
recently I have found that if I keep my
workout routine simple enough and to
just running on the treadmill, it keeps
me going consistently and I feel like I
don't have the mental energy right now
to kind of come up with a whole weekly
workout routine that I follow every week.
So yeah, that's why I have only been
running. I have this assignment to do for
one of my computer science courses, it's
really cold outside and my hands are
freezing so I'll talk about it when I am
inside. So this assignment is for the
same class that, that backpropagation
assignment was that I was showing you
that I was doing in a previous vlog and
it is for this course called neural and
genetic computing, so now we've moved on
to sorry, I was gonna show you the screen
but now we've moved on to unsupervised
learning networks, and for this
assignment we have to implement a
competitive learning network. I'm
specifically using the kohonen and
k-means algorithms, currently I have no
idea what's going on, but I am sure that
if I stare at the screen for many hours
I can figure something out to hand in. So
yes and here's my KeepCup, so cute!
I've got Earl Grey tea
and yeah I'm gonna get started.
 
Morning! Garrett, this is Garrett say hi,
okay, we're taking you to class today
finally. And if you're wondering why we
haven't already taken you to class
because it's been like two days, I'll
explain that when I get home okay just
wait,
yeah we're gonna be late let's go.
Okay so i'm back from class now,
let me explain to you why I haven't been
to that much class this week. Well first
of all, in computer science I feel like
there's not that much class anyway that
you have to attend. I think except for in
first and second year because that's
when you have most of your required
of courses. That's when you have the most
class but in later years like third and
fourth year I've had a very chill
schedule especially in relative to other
programs like engineering or advanced
science program. Like you just don't have
that many hours per week of class and
then as well, within computer science
it's, it's kind of hard to teach someone
how to code using a blackboard or even a
projector, things like that, like coding
and computer science is more of a
discipline that you learn through
practice. So sometimes you'll actually
feel like you are wasting time by staying
in class because the teacher is
unable to teach you the concepts as well
as you can teach yourself at home when
you have practice problems in front of
you as well. And even if you looked in my
vlog there isn't that many people in the
class, and I think that a lot of people
just choose not to attend, so yeah. But
obviously if you are someone who knows
that you're not disciplined enough to go
home and actually study the content on
your own and learn it, then you probably
should go to class. Otherwise you just,
otherwise you're just gonna
do really bad, but yeah so that's it. I
think we're gonna go to the gym now and
then after work on my assignment.
And I'm done! Wow it feel so good after
like two days of just straight coding.
Actually like I actually feel like I
don't want to look at a screen for the
next month, but unfortunately i've got other
assignments to do. So
that marks the end of this vlog, if
you've got any questions related to this
program at Queen's University comment
them down below. Even if you have
questions about like other things
related to this topic such as being a
female in computer science or what it's
like learning to code through a
structured university program as opposed
to teaching yourself or things like that
you can leave me a comment and I'll
address them. And hopefully I'll have
enough questions that I can address them
at some point in a Q&A video but if not,
if you're the one lone comment I'll just
respond to you anyway. Thanks again,
bye see you next week!
