Prove. Result.

I lost three marks on the homework I said I should get full marks on.  I sort of understand why I lost a mark on the last question but the two I lost on the first question don't make any sense.  The comment said that I'd get NaNs (not a number) when x < 0 but x wouldn't have been less than or equal to 0.  Robbed.  I didn't want my new tutor to think I was going to be awkward all term though so I kept my mouth shut and accepted 17/20. 

My parents came on Saturday and we ate at Weatherspoons in town.  It was a nice meal considering the cheap, cheap price.  I especially enjoyed the waffle I had for pudding. 

The weekend also saw Lancaster beat York in the Roses - the annual sporting competition between the two rival universities.  I didn't get to see any of it and campus didn't even seem busy although I suppose everyone was down on the fields or keeping out of the rain. 

I decided that bank holiday Monday would be my final day of dossing around and after that I would clamp down on revision for exams.  Exams that are now only five weeks away.  I'm going to try and get six hours of work in every day, including lectures, seminars, workshops and time spent doing homework.  That's just so I don't have to do as much revision on days when I've got a lot of lectures. 

In yesterday's UAAA seminar we had to give a presentation to the group about our chosen topic; Exoplanets.  We were the second (and final, due to a late arrival by the person supposed to be marking us) group to go up and we had to follow a well presented talk on the same topic we were doing.  It went well though, considering we hadn't even had a practise run through.  One criticism we had of the other group is that they read straight from a sheet and hence didn't look at the audience, whereas we only had bullet point notes because of our lack of effort and were able to look up most of the time while we blagged our way through two minutes of talking each. 

In the three hours before my 5 o'clock lecture I tried the maths homework but I only managed to do two questions.  The notes are particularly useless this week so I'll have to meet up with people later today and hopefully get it done in time.