Week Three

Today I sat down and worked hard.

The result: it is currently 9pm-ish on a Wednesday and I have finished A1 a remarkable 5 days early.

Score.

Now onto more important things... like catching up on Heroes. ;)

Week Two/Problem Set #2

So week two of lectures passed without incident. I missed Monday's lecture because I fail at getting up early but other than that I've managed to drag myself out of bed every morning.

Problem Set #2 looks pretty easy and I'm going to get it done today. I haven't gotten as much done on Assignment #1 as I had hoped. I have a couple ideas for questions 1,2 and 3 jotted down rather messily on some scrap paper and I've constructed a rather shoddy model consisting of my bulletin board, some tacks and some string forming an n sided figure inscribed in a circle. One day I should learn to visualize things in my head...

Problem Set #1 & Assignment #1

Problem Set #1 wound up being a lot easier than I expected and I wound up finishing it within an hour or so. Although it's quite possible I'll get it back and discover I messed up on some seemingly insignificant detail. The questions were so similar to the lecture material that I don't think I messed up -that- badly, but you never know...

Feeling rather ambitious I decided to look at assignment 1 and closed it immediately because it looked horrifying. However, after attempting my calculus homework I printed out the assignment handout, posted it on my bulletin board next to calc and decided it looked quite manageable. I knew there was a good reason to take mat237. Seeing as how the assignment is most inconveniently due on my birthday I have resolved to finish the assignment early.

CSC236: Week 1

Well, I have successfully survived week one of classes despite this class being ridiculously early. Unfortunately, I also have an annoying one hour gap between this class and CSC207 that leaves me stranded in the Bahen Centre where I am tempted to spend my hard earned summer savings on overpriced caffeinated beverages.

So far I have managed to make every class on time. I really have no excuse for sleeping in and missing class considering: one, I live in res and two, I somehow managed to wake up on time every morning during the summer to go work as a tech support agent at a call center. And quite frankly, this class is far more interesting than telling people to restart their computer all day.

The class seems to essentially be a continuation of CSC165 which is a good thing. I was also happy to see a similar marking scheme to 165 so I have hope of bringing the good ol' GPA up (or atleast making up for MAT237). As well, I thoroughly enjoy the use of the tablet. It's generally really clear and easy to read. Although sometimes the writing on it can get a little messy it's far more legible than some of my other profs (anyone in the day section of STA257 can confirm this).

Another positive point, I like how we have small problem sets every week (we don't have a test/major assignment) that keep me from falling behind and cramming before tests but are small enough that I don't feel like I'm going to be drowning in work every week. Oh and having our assignments posted early is nice as well.

My goal for this class is going to be not to fall behind like I did last year. I'm going to try to have some sort of regular schedule for this instead of trying to do two months worth of updates in one sitting in a desperate attempt to rack up some marks before the end of term. So my list of things to do today:
1. start slog (done)
2. review course notes
3. problem set #1
4. start MAT237 homework

Now to resist spending all my time trying to figure out a way to embed my list of things to do on my iCal onto this blog instead of actually completing my assignments...