Monday, 18 October 2010

Mouse < Elephant

I suppose I haven't quite fallen back into blogging frequently now I'm back at university.  I'll try harder; I promise. 

I've had a full week of lectures now.  We have three modules on the go at once.  12 hours per week plus time taken for homework/revision. 
MATH210 is a bit confusing.  It is heavily focused on proving things rather than working out specific cases so everyone seems to be complaining about it because they miss school and college level maths.  Also, no one likes the lecturer very much.  I don't mind doing proofs and having a lecturer who speaks clearly and in an easy-to-understand accent though so I don't mind getting up on a Monday and Tuesday afternoon.  Also, by "everyone" and "no one", I am, of course, referring to the small number of friends I have in maths lectures. 

The first booklet for MATH220 is exactly the same as the first booklet for MATH114 from last year but with bits missed out so I haven't been able to concentrate on anything yet.  Instead of listening, I spend lectures reading through my old notes and filling in gaps in the new ones.  The lecturer seems like he'll be pretty good at explaining the new stuff whenever we get to it so that's something to look forward to. 

MATH230 is Probability.  Our lecturer is Spanish or Italian or something like that so she has a really strong accent and is difficult to understand.  The actual work is easy enough so far though so it isn't too bad.  The first week was mainly revision of MATH104 from last year and was easy enough to follow. 

I was going to write a paragraph about how annoying certain ones of everyone/no one were when they were claiming, with the utmost confidence, that the notes were wrong, that the 210 notes are exactly the same as last year and that if we fail our Masters then we leave university with absolutely nothing but debt.  The notes were unsurprisingly correct and only the 220 notes are the same.  I don't know what happens if we fail our Masters but I'd be willing to bet we get our BSc if we do well enough in Part II, regardless of how we do in the fourth year.  Instead, I decided to write a paragraph about how I was going to write a paragraph about it. 

I don't know where my printer cable is for plugging it in so I'm borrowing Liz's for now while she has no use for it. 

My phone froze today and when it unfroze it had decided to go through a few screens and reformat my memory card so I lost everything that was saved on it. 

Chris and I have played the Halo: Reach Campaign and Firefight game modes to death so we decided to make a Mario Kart style race track in the map editor.  We also made a bouncy cage of death in the middle of the sky for general having a laugh killing each other again and again with swords, gravity hammers, rockets and/or grenades. 

Good, huge food in the White Cross on Saturday when my parents came.  My guitar still isn't fixed because the machine head didn't fit.  Lord of the Rings trilogy before Hazel comes and takes them back home next weekend.  Cemetery Junction tonight at the university cinema.  Bus to campus now before Liz goes mental. 

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