Day 4 wound up being the crunch day for our group.
We had this day to finish off as much as possible before the poster presentation tomorrow.
This meant that for nearly the entire day I was researching the price of materials to get all of our costing ready. Sometimes materials were nearly impossible to find, due to them not being the sort of thing regularly bought over the internet (such as windows and cladding) while other items were in an abundance.
It was also important to try and find as many deals for bulk orders as possible, to really help keep the costing down. However, after working on the costing for nearly 7 hours, I realised that our group was running over budget, which wasn’t good.
However, after redoing all the costing on an excel spreadsheet, I found that I had in fact accidentally added one item twice. This resulted in us being instead quite under budget, allowing for me to then add in the cost of many other sundry items, such as kettles and microwaves.
Overall, I found this day the most stressful, as I was incredibly tired and felt burned out by constantly doing maths.
