[Entry 02] I haven't updated in a long time so here we go

It's the night before our first test. Most people are talking about it, some seem worried, but I'm not. I feel totally fine. Sure, I've studied for it, but only a total of about 3, maybe 4 hours.

Everyone tells me that most U of T students come from schools where they're used to getting good grades with very little effort (which holds true for me). But then I talk with some of them and see them struggle in courses like MAT135 and it suddenly clicks to me that everyone came from different high schools with different levels of education. In my MAT135 course, we're beginning to talk about derivatives, which I recall quite clearly from 12th grade calculus. I'm hardly worrying about MAT135, whereas I notice some others studying hard for it, questioning the material, trying to figure it out.

Then I look at myself, and this course. I often find myself confused with the course material at first, but by working on the assignments and in tutorials I quickly figure it all out within just an hour. That isn't to say that I figure out all there is to know on the subject, since I've only known the material for these past few weeks. But I feel as though I know enough, and I feel prepared for this test.

It's a shame I can't say the same about PSY100. When textbooks and reading are involved, that's when I really tend to struggle.

>TalonLame

[Entry 01] I'm bad at making titles for blog entries so bear with me in the future

And so my first year at U of T begins!

For all the attempts to scare me about university made by professors and upper-year students who spoke at orientation events, I don't feel scared at all. So far, university seems like a much more independent and laid-back version of high school (which is a good thing). Not to mention how much it helps to not have my motivation sucked out of me by my parents constantly telling me to do my work at 11 in the morning on the weekend. Yup! I feel like I'm off to a great start.

I didn't know what to expect of CSC165 before school began. My older brother (a 3rd year student in Engineering Science, who I may mention a lot in the future) told me what he knew about it from his friends, and if I had any impression at all it was that CSC165 would be all about proofs. So far, that claim seems more or less accurate. All we've talked about are if/then statements, sets represented by Venn diagrams, and general logic. Logic is something I've always found interesting because it's how things work, it's the guidelines of the world as we know it. I'm looking forward to learning a lot in this course!

On the other hand, I have a pitiful attention span. After the first two lectures of the course I've lost focus, perhaps because of how repetitive the material seems. It's all very interesting, and the Professor Heap's methods make perfect sense, too (making sure we understand the topic by going through multiple examples), but the number of examples he's given us and the conditions of the UC140 classroom are too much for my poor little head at 11AM after two hours of class previously. Hopefully I've retained most of the information so far, but I'm also going to have to rely on a lot of common sense, I think, which is unfortunate and undesirable.

Here's to wishing myself the best of luck in this course!

>TalonLame