New start?

Turns out that I am doing bad on my math courses this semester. I really can feel that my time management is bad, and I screwed up my university life. I do well in CSC258, but not the 3 math courses. I really want some help somewhere, and I feel lost.

And I am not sure what program I should go in. I am now in Computer Science and Mathematics, but should I get into Actuarial Science or Statistics instead of Mathematics? Or should I get a minor? I am so confused. So, for this coming winter break, I know I've got something to do: study on java programming, and, plan for my future. Hope that everything goes well.

Wake me up when September..... starts!

Well what does September means? Yea school starts in September!! Well it means it's time for studying and working hard again. Especially my GPA wasn't so good last school year, I must work much harder than my first year in order to raise my GPA up. Having 5 courses this semester, I hope I can handle all of them really well.

School has started for 2 days for me, and I had 3 classes on Monday, which are all Math related: MAT237, ACT240, and STA257, while for today I just have CSC258, a computer science course. The math ones are quite good, not too difficult for me. But for the computer science one, I am a bit frightened... The materials covered in the course somehow relates to a little Chemistry (duh..), and a bit Physics, and some knowledge on computer hardwares. Though it is quite interesting, I found it challenging as well. The professor in the class says that after this course, the magic behind the computer will be all gone for us. I hope I can really understand how every part of the computer works after this course.

And yeah, I am quite sure I haven't woke up completely. Wish that I can feel the pressure and stress and wake up in these days.

Time really flies...

And this week is the last school week, while tmr is the last school day before the exams. I can't believe how fast my year 1 passes. And this week is surely the deadline for many assignments and also tests as well.

And for CSC165, we had a test on Monday. It isn't too hard, but just that the last question is a bit confusing. It asked us to prove the statement: if f ∈ Ω(h), then (f + g) ∈ Ω(h). The problem is it didn't state whether g is also in Ω(h) or not. What I thought was to create 3 cases: either f has a lower bound h, or it has an upper bound h, or it is not bounded. But I didn't really have much time, and I m so unsure if this is the right way to approach the question. I am still confused about the question till now. And it's too bad that I missed this morning's class, because of working too late at night yesterday. And I have no idea when or how we can get this test back. I want to know the correct answer for the question above so badly.

And for a conclusion for this course, I think that it is a really fun and interesting course. The tests are not too difficult for me, and the professor is nice and he teaches really well, and some concepts in this course has already appeared in my calculus textbook, which is good for me. The Big-Oh concept at first was a bit confusing to me, because of the statement: 6n is the same as 10n + 100, or something like that. But after a lecture or two, everything seems easy and not difficult to follow. For this course, if you want to understand the concepts, you just have to attend the lectures and read the lecture notes and slides, and that's it. This isn't a hard course, and I can say I really enjoy this course. This course makes me feel more confidence to go into computer science major, though I am still unsure which part of computer science I should be going to (maybe computer science and statistics? lol).

The only thing left for this course (and actually every courses) is the exam. I will work hard on it and get well-prepared for it, and hope that I can get a good result on it!

>< last school week is coming...

I feel so stressed out....
There are so many things left for me to do: 2 midterms on Monday, and CSC148 Assignment 2 dues on Tuesday, and Calculus essay dues on Wednesday. Maybe my time management is really poor, but I really want to do good on my computer sciences courses.
Anyways, CSC165 Test 3 is on coming Monday! I am doing okay in the Big-Oh part, but not the number floating part, especially I didn't attend 2 classes last week due to sickness and assignments from other classes. Hope that I can understand the notes and lectures slides, and will do good on the test.

Got my test back =)

Today the prof talked about some sort methods we learn in CSC148. I like the way he used some cards to demonstrate the sorts =P. Its quite interesting to learn sorting in this way for me. And then we got our tests back. I got 80% for the test. Although its higher than the class average, I somehow don't feel satisfied with the test. I was so careless and lose 1 mark in the first question. I forgot to write the second last step "then P(n) => P(n^2)", and I lose 1 mark =(. Thats really a stupid mistake. and for the last question I lose 7 marks. I still can't understand how to complete the whole question flawlessly. Maybe this shows that I am not fully familiar with the lecture notes. I must work harder on this course!

Just looked at the calendar and figured out that classes will end on the April 2nd... Thats 3 more weeks! Then we will have our exams and then school ends. I think I will gonna miss my first year!

More about proofing!

In today's class we learnt more about proofing. I was so pleased to see the stuffs I learnt in MAT157 now can be also applied to this course. For the proofing of continuous graph, I have learnt it last semester and I am really surprised at how I can apply knowledges from one course to another. Anyways, when the professor asked us if that proof make sense, the professor saw me nodded my head and this makes me feel a little bit funny =P.

I am still feeling good on this course, and I really hope that I can study well on CSC148 and get into computer science major!

Reading Week!

Finally the reading week has arrived =D! So we will have a week off and for me, I will probably choose to just sleep and eat for these days. However, in reality, this is not allowed for me because I still have a lot of works to do =(. Anyways, the 2nd assignment for CSC165 is out. It is actually not very difficult (but this is what I think after finishing the first question only), and it seems much shorter than the first assignment. Last time I didn't have enough time to finish the first assignment, so this time I must finish this assignment no matter what!

I think I will finish the assignment tonight, because I am going to participate in the alternate reading week program, which should use me the following three days. Luckily until now I still haven't encounter any difficulties on the course (just my carelessness), so I can have a little more time shift to focus on other courses.