The Engineered Boulderer

Today was such a momentous occasion as to bring me out of my blog hibernation. Today I graduated from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with a degree of Master of Science in Engineering.

My master’s thesis was on the subject: “Preventing illicit information flow in networked computer games using security annotations” and I managed to secure the Danish grade 9. On the subject of the grade, I am both pleased and dissapointed. I had hoped for a two-digit grade (10 or above), and the amount of praise my supervisor and external examiner made me feel like they were trying to show the grade as being better than it was. However, it feels very nice to finally be done, and once I get my head around it (in 5 months time) it’ll probably feel even nicer. Basically, they said I could have done more theoretical work on the project (essentially proofs) to receive a better grade.

After I had gotten my grade and received my congratulations from the friend and family that had attended my presentation, Susan and I went to Fisketorvet (mall in Copenhagen) and did a bit of shopping and finished off the day with take-out from Thai Lanna which was really good.

One the subject of my thesis I have written a bit about it below for those that are interested. (more…)

Any highlighting of the number 10 in these Olympiad days cannot help be influenced by the event, however, the 10 in question here is the grade I received in my Thermodynamics exam.

I had wasted my three attempts on stupid fooling about, receiving a 03 as the highest grade. Since I am starting my exam project this semester, the teacher elected to make a sommer “team” for students in the same situation as me (there were 3 others) with an oral exam.

The last week / week and a half has been spend doing old exam questions, culminating in the exam today. I do feel that I now have the knowledge needed to pass the written exam if necessary, but a 10 was very unexpected. The danish grading scale goes from 0 to 13 except 2, 4, and 12 where 0 and 3 are written 00 and 03 so the cannot be altered to a higher grade on a grade sheet.

With this “hurdle” completed I am so ready for my exam project.