March 13, 2007
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Typical...
I never realised that the lectures were so difficult for some people to follow. I almost fell asleep during yesterday's lecture, but I still got most of it. My friends were probably just as tired at the time, but they didn't seem to get any of it. They didn't seem to have looked at the lecture notes nor the textbook either. I had to tell them how to do the conversions between binary and hexadecimal.
I wonder if it was the right thing to do. Should I have made them ask the tutors instead? What if I was telling them the wrong stuff? Then again, I had a calculator with binary and hexadecimal modes, so I used it to check my results, which were all right. The tutors probably won't notice even if I just used the calculator and not tried doing it by hand, but I had to do it by hand to show my friends how to do it, and I think I should have a go at doing it anyway.
Then again, I probably have a slightly better start than they do. All that random reading in the past comes in handy once again! Really, time after time I seem to be getting by just because somehow I've actually read relevant information years ahead. Sometimes I wonder when I actually read all this. I even wonder if I really did. It might just be dé&jagrave; vu. Either way, this won't last. One of these days I'll get another huge shock when I can't keep up.
On the other hand, for now I'm glad I don't have to do physics. I'm doing as many units as I can for this semester, but I only have 17 hours of class each week. (Well, 19, but I have 2 clashes so I can only attend 17.) According to my friends, physics on its own is 7 hours a week. I have linguistics instead, which is only 3 hours a week (and one of those I can't attend because of a clash). I'll probably end up having to do it later, but I can worry about it then.
Comments (2)
(The language courses thing was an example.)
Is this about Physics though? Most people (like I ._.) don't get physics much. We have to ask other people also because asking the tutor may be daunting when you could ask a friend instead.
You sound like you have a rather good head for math. But for the other people who don't, no matter how many times we read the textbook, or how long we stay awake for lectures, we still won't get it. It's just your natural apititude for the subject
Also, it's ok to help out once in a while. As long as they don't just ask you for the answers, and just ask you for help, then it's ok. It means that they seriously want to know how to do whatever it is you're trying to teach them.
Good luck in your classes!
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No MSN though. MSN crashes my computer. Actually...moths crashes my computer.
But I'm flattered that you took the time to read that entire long post. I didn't feel like making anything private, because then that'd defeat the purpose of internet blogging. The warning was up there for other people who might have ventured in for softcore porn.....
And Pie Day => pwnzor of all =]