Software development process for a part time University project for 1 developer?

Question

I will be doing a part time University project soon and the time frame for it is around 8 months with approximately 10-15 hours a week spent working on it, with a review by a tutor each quarter.

My question is what software development process would you recommend using when the course requires you to work on your own in order to manage yourself as well as the project?

I wanted to use a weekly or bi-weekly iterative approach to my work but a lot of the processes seem tailored to teams of people.

I am looking at XP (Extreme Programming) OR Scrum as something that is less than the norm for University work but again Scrum I don't know a lot about yet, and a question I have is; can you say you are doing XP without pair-programming? because my tutor seems to think that I have to stick to all the practices otherwise I can't do it (nevermind if I am working alone).

We can have external user input as well but due to the small timescales with part time work it may be more beneficial for myself to be the user as well, which is not what I prefer considering how I can get lost in the design.