Week Ten

Well, so far there really isn't much to say about week ten since I managed to sleep in both today and Monday and miss class.

Test was last week and went reasonably well. Questions 1 and 2 were really easy so I just rushed into question 3 without really thinking ahead and I'm horrible at coming up with loop invariants so it really didn't go so well. But in the end, I think I finally got there, my answer was just so messy and disorganized if I was a TA I would just give me a zero instead of trying to read through it.

I feel rather behind as both 207 and this class are kinda syncing up and I haven't been to either this week.

I was gonna try to go to the evening lectures but I'm so behind in stats I don't know if I have time.

I managed to do both the exercise for 207 and the problem set for this class though so I think I'm managing to (barely) stay afloat. I'm gonna have to read the text about this DFSA stuff but hopefully I can fit that in tomorrow and I'll be able to follow Friday's lecture alright.

Plan for improvement:

1. Stop missing class.

2. Set aside time to do weekly homework the week its assigned so I don't get behind or have to spend as much time cramming for tests.

3. Start early: I have a STA257 Term Test, MAT235 Problem Set, A3 and CSC207 Final Project all due in the same week which also happens to be the week I wanted to go home for Black Friday (although perhaps it sounds better if I say to celebrate some good ol' genocide with my family instead). Only way I'm gonna get anything done is to work ahead. I already started by getting this week's problem sets and exercises for my classes done early and I'll do the same with next week's. Then I can start my problem set and A3 on the weekend and perhaps find someone to work with (maybe not for A3 but for my problem set) and work on stats daily since it's a lot of stuff to remember and as I discovered last time cramming doesn't work.

4. Work regularly: So instead of trying to do like 10 hours of work all on one day and then nothing the next day I should try and come up with a system so I work a set amount of hours each day. Right now my plan is that since if I wasn't here I'd be working at least 8 hours a day, my combined class and homework/study time should add up to at least 8 hours a day. And then maybe an hour or two of some sort of either mindless activity or preferably exercise to balance things out. So if I have 3 hours of class today I should be able to work 5 hours which seems like a lot but in the summer I spent a month and a half working 2 jobs and would often work doubles or over 16 hours a day not including commuting time so really, 5 hours doing homework isn't -that- bad. Besides, even stats is better than having to teach an old lady how to attach a picture to an email when 1. she doesn't know how to connect to the internet and 2. she didn't know (after having her computer for two years nonetheless) that you can move windows around on the screen.

Now to stop procrastinating and finally start tackling stats...