reflections on a second week
Two of my classes have tutorials directly following the lecture. These classes happen to be the ones that already end at 8:15 in the evening. For COMP 201, the tutorial was actually useful and enabled me to complete my programming assignment, or at least most of it. We had to design a simple calculator using a WYSIWYG GUI editor, which I hated. It added an extra frame each time I created a new element, so eventually I was left with everything surrounded by these unnecessary boxes. What I would much rather do is learn the raw code and build things that way. Then I can probably learn how to reduce unnecessary frames.
The other tutorial was after COMP 232, math for compsci. This tutorial was absolutely useless and an utter waste of time. Apparently, we get a set of problems and work through them in tutorial together with our tutor. Problem is, I was capable of solving the problems on my own. In the future, I will be downloading the tutorials in advance and working on them myself, and if I can do so without aid I will not attend tutorial on Wednesday nights. The day is long enough for me already without adding almost two hours of group problem solving.
Friday, I overslept and missed my math lecture. I'll be diving into my textbook and proceeding to the assignment, and presenting any questions I have to my professor Wednesday after class. Thursday night, I went to bed later than I should have, but then I couldn't get to sleep until five in the morning. I have to get up around eight in order to get dressed and ready and on a bus that gets me to the métro on time to get to campus on time. So after three hours, my body decided that I was too tired to allow my ears to interrupt my necessary sleep.
My French class was good, I finished lab after just an hour again. The professor can leave messages for us in the program we use, and he's mentioned to us that if we need to rework a previous exercise for more practice, he'll let us know in these messages. Mine just said good job, keep it up. I was kind of afraid that he might bump me up to the next class, because the French department requires all of their professors to put warnings to that effect on their syllabi. But I get to stay, which is great. I hate trying to alter a schedule once I've already set it, and I might have ended up having to buy a new book, which I have no money for.
Mathieu was very pleased with his new iPod, and very shocked that I was able to keep the surprise. I'm glad I did, though. It's better when it's a surprise. He keeps showing me features that are different from the 5th gen iPod, which makes me want a new one as well, but I don't have any decent excuse for one. Oh rampant consumerism. At any rate, we're doing really well with our finances and have even put some money aside for Christmas, meaning we won't be loading up our credit cards to buy people presents this year. And next spring when taxes come back, we're going to tackle our debts instead of buying all kinds of shit that we really don't need (though a new computer was certainly useful in Mathieu's case).
Things are going well. Now I'm going to go wash some dishes.
The other tutorial was after COMP 232, math for compsci. This tutorial was absolutely useless and an utter waste of time. Apparently, we get a set of problems and work through them in tutorial together with our tutor. Problem is, I was capable of solving the problems on my own. In the future, I will be downloading the tutorials in advance and working on them myself, and if I can do so without aid I will not attend tutorial on Wednesday nights. The day is long enough for me already without adding almost two hours of group problem solving.
Friday, I overslept and missed my math lecture. I'll be diving into my textbook and proceeding to the assignment, and presenting any questions I have to my professor Wednesday after class. Thursday night, I went to bed later than I should have, but then I couldn't get to sleep until five in the morning. I have to get up around eight in order to get dressed and ready and on a bus that gets me to the métro on time to get to campus on time. So after three hours, my body decided that I was too tired to allow my ears to interrupt my necessary sleep.
My French class was good, I finished lab after just an hour again. The professor can leave messages for us in the program we use, and he's mentioned to us that if we need to rework a previous exercise for more practice, he'll let us know in these messages. Mine just said good job, keep it up. I was kind of afraid that he might bump me up to the next class, because the French department requires all of their professors to put warnings to that effect on their syllabi. But I get to stay, which is great. I hate trying to alter a schedule once I've already set it, and I might have ended up having to buy a new book, which I have no money for.
Mathieu was very pleased with his new iPod, and very shocked that I was able to keep the surprise. I'm glad I did, though. It's better when it's a surprise. He keeps showing me features that are different from the 5th gen iPod, which makes me want a new one as well, but I don't have any decent excuse for one. Oh rampant consumerism. At any rate, we're doing really well with our finances and have even put some money aside for Christmas, meaning we won't be loading up our credit cards to buy people presents this year. And next spring when taxes come back, we're going to tackle our debts instead of buying all kinds of shit that we really don't need (though a new computer was certainly useful in Mathieu's case).
Things are going well. Now I'm going to go wash some dishes.