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brokenrecord) wrote2009-09-17 01:28 pm
brokenrecord) wrote2009-09-17 01:28 pm
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Ok, Discrete Math is ridiculous. The homework is essentially all proofs, and there are like 20+ of them. We aren't given any instruction or hints how to do them in class or examples or anything. The assignments for each class aren't due, but he chooses people randomly to put them up on the board, so if you don't know how to do it, you're humiliated in front of the class. The homework takes FOREVER. The homework I had due today, I worked on for 3 hours on Tuesday and then from 5 PM to 12:30 AM and even after that I STILL had 3 problems totally unanswered (and several I was unsure of). Luckily, he called on me on Tuesday, so I wasn't too worried about being called up in class. He's actually a good professor and he can explain things well, but he doesn't do it until after we've already done the assignment. And it's just so time-consuming. I think we complained to him enough about it that he's going to lighten the homework load, at least for Thursdays since we only have 2 days to do the homework rather than the 5 days for Tuesday. But ugh, this is so much more work than I expected! I was like "I need to take a class to fulfill a math minor requirement... hm, how about Discrete Math? That's a 100-level course! That should be no problem after Multivariate Stats and Differential Equations (which are 200- and 300-level courses, respectively). Luckily one of my friends is probably going to switch into this class, and he said he's good at proofs, so hopefully he can help, because wth I am totally dying in this class and it's only been a week and I really need to focus more on Directed Research.
Glee is definitely making me happy to make up for the ridiculous workload, though. I didn't have time to watch it on Wednesday night due to all my homework, but it definitely helped pick me up after class. And then I watched Bones which actually helped a lot, too. I was definitely not a fan of the finale, but I love how they dealt with it. They explained the book reading/dream thing. It seems like it's actually going to help drive storylines this season (at least, I hope so. I'm assuming they're not going to have Booth just decide that he wasn't in love with her before the surgery and never bring it up or think about it again). I definitely love that the amnesia at the end of the finale was cleared up in, like, seconds in this episode. I'm not so sure where they're going with the whole "Booth wasn't in love with Brennan before the surgery" because he so totally was (and I didn't even think he was in denial; I thought he was pretty aware of that). I'm definitely hopeful, though. And it was a good episode outside all that, too. Definitely loads better than last season's premiere which I remember finding kind of stupid. Anyways, I'm very happy to be looking forward to Bones again, since the finale kind of weakened my love for the show.
On Wednesday we had a group meeting with our Directed Research adviser and we each described what we're planning on doing and the other members in the group (there are 5 of us total) asked questions and tried to find ways to strengthen our ideas and plans and all that. I was a little nervous, but it actually turned out pretty well from me. I was second, and the first person everyone kind of... ripped to shreds? I mean, it wasn't like... cruel or anything, but there were a lot of potential criticisms that needed to be addressed. But after I said mine, everyone kind of just sat there and were like "...huh. That's an interesting idea." And then after I added a few more things and discussed something I was unsure of, they had more input, but it was good. And that's good for me since I am so sensitive and always take constructive criticism personally even though I'm aware it's supposed to help me. There are still a lot of kinks I need to work out for my project, though. I'm really going to have like no time to relax this semester. ugh.
Glee is definitely making me happy to make up for the ridiculous workload, though. I didn't have time to watch it on Wednesday night due to all my homework, but it definitely helped pick me up after class. And then I watched Bones which actually helped a lot, too. I was definitely not a fan of the finale, but I love how they dealt with it. They explained the book reading/dream thing. It seems like it's actually going to help drive storylines this season (at least, I hope so. I'm assuming they're not going to have Booth just decide that he wasn't in love with her before the surgery and never bring it up or think about it again). I definitely love that the amnesia at the end of the finale was cleared up in, like, seconds in this episode. I'm not so sure where they're going with the whole "Booth wasn't in love with Brennan before the surgery" because he so totally was (and I didn't even think he was in denial; I thought he was pretty aware of that). I'm definitely hopeful, though. And it was a good episode outside all that, too. Definitely loads better than last season's premiere which I remember finding kind of stupid. Anyways, I'm very happy to be looking forward to Bones again, since the finale kind of weakened my love for the show.
On Wednesday we had a group meeting with our Directed Research adviser and we each described what we're planning on doing and the other members in the group (there are 5 of us total) asked questions and tried to find ways to strengthen our ideas and plans and all that. I was a little nervous, but it actually turned out pretty well from me. I was second, and the first person everyone kind of... ripped to shreds? I mean, it wasn't like... cruel or anything, but there were a lot of potential criticisms that needed to be addressed. But after I said mine, everyone kind of just sat there and were like "...huh. That's an interesting idea." And then after I added a few more things and discussed something I was unsure of, they had more input, but it was good. And that's good for me since I am so sensitive and always take constructive criticism personally even though I'm aware it's supposed to help me. There are still a lot of kinks I need to work out for my project, though. I'm really going to have like no time to relax this semester. ugh.