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Ross Kilgariff

grade: 75%

This is a good, and detailed blow by blow account of what happened. The best bit is that there isn't any added flavour beyond the precise happenings. Many try and tart up the piece, but you have remembered that it is only for you, and so facts are what you need, not pointless politically correct spins on facts. So, well done. Keep this focus and you will go well in your future career.

One point, you may wish to think more about the issue of reflecting. I'm not suggesting you do this now, but keep it as a piece of possibly useful armour. As you are highly competent and are well in charge of your personal and technical development, you don't need it too much now. But, if failure should ever rear its ugly head, you will need to stop and face it. For example, I had a system fail due to data loss and corruption. There was no logical software reason why this should occur. So I stopped and mused over the problem and it turned out the problems were to do with telecomms/physics; the musing allowed me to step out of the software engineering mindset. (the problems were: (i) strip lights exude high magnetic fields which affect electrons-carrying-data on copper cables within 1m, and (ii) it may be 200m point-to-point but the cables may travel 2km around the physical building with subsequent signal degradation.)

I encourage you to keep on the strong road you are on.