I’m a perfectionist. This is a tendency that I recognise as a weakness, and certainly, university has beaten some of that out of me, sometimes with a figurative crowbar.

To continue this particularly nasty metaphor, today uni gave me a black eye. Next time it may be an anal rape in the showers.

For my Java unit, I received my results for my first assignment: 100%. Excellent. I’m happy with that.

But I just submitted my first major project for this same unit, and I just couldn’t crack one part of it. Because of that, I perfected everything else, but boy was it a kick in the pants.

Still, let’s think of this as a learning experience…