Saturday, September 16, 2006
THE WHJC : BRIDGE TO NOWHERE PROJECT
THE WHJC : BRIDGE TO NOWHERE PROJECT
Hi all this is my first post on SIN from my now not so new internet connection, Yay! Today's subject is the ridiculous ENG1020 bridge building project (The first bit of the title shouldn't be a mystery to those of you who take the unit ;) )
Anyhoo, the project statement asks us to build a to scaled to life bridge model, which in itself is not a bad idea, why build a bridge that has no relevance to real structures anyhow? Except that this entire bridge must be made of your absolutely regular newspaper paper, including cables, its easy for the lecturer to rant on about how we shouldn't be complaining about size constraints since the bridge is to scale, I'd like to ask him to make a real life bridge out of this stuff, guy should realise that dimensions aren't everything, the stuff you make it out of matters too, we might as well have been making houses of candyfloss if that were the case, (yum!).
But all those problems turn out to be just obstacles, the build is actually buildable after all, (or atleast we hope it is, since we haven't tested our model yet), what is insanely annoying is how the lecturer goes around changing specifications and constraints, AARRGGHHH!! It really sucked for a lot of people last Friday when they found out about that there was a limit on the number of towers used on the bridge (something else he forgot to mention), some of the people had to build the whole damn thing again. I always knew there was some advantage to my leaving stuff off till the last minute, muahahahhahahah, my tardiness was actually the reason why our bridge hadn't been constructed on the day before we found out about the latest 'condition' in our bridge design, so take that! Jeremy and Foong.
Worst of all, most people don't know this one yet I think, (Tseng Yang will probably be ripping out his already frugal hair over this one), our old constraint on having to use ABSOLUTELY regular newspaper has apparently been lifted, when some of the guys started using this higher quality paper, went and asked the lecturer if it was ok, and he said it was!! I'd asked him the exact same thing over a week back, and he said we couldn't do it.
Anyhow, without further bitching, I invite you all to a very special, prelaunch look at our somewhat ugly (Not winning the aesthetic points this one), but hopefully stable bridge . . .
