Sean's Ship to Success

WOW! good luck you can do this!


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YEAS @SeanFM!

Looking forward to this one. It's so hard to keep motivated at uni- the struggle is real!

Good luck with everything

Good luck. You're the 2nd mathmo I know to have taken Japanese as an optional unit.

is the first someone else on this site?

Wow so is that 300 people in your year at uni? That's a lot!

Oh and good luck with your goals Do you know when you get your semester 1 exam results?

Started off with around 360 maybe 300 of us now.

Thanks the 27th of this month how about you?

Around the 24th.

So do you all fit in one lecture theatre? It's crazy because there's like at most 120 of us!

Wake me up when the semester ends

Right, the end of week 1, semester 2, where are we at?

Lectures attended: 7/9
Tutorials attended: 1/2
Number of hours of independent study: 3.
No problem sheet results so far.

So, a disappointing start to what was supposed to be a semester with 100% attendance. I'd overslept for one, got the time wrong for another and the bus just didn't arrive for the third occasion. None of those are excuses, just what happened, and for the next 10 weeks I am aiming for 100% attendance.

There hasn't been that much to study so far - I read ahead for the first week but haven't done so for the second week, and all the time seems to have flown by. It isn't that long until results day!

Japanese class was interesting - some people from the previous semester weren't there, and some new faces were. We recapped on things from the first semester, were taught a few more kanji (taking us up to maybe 60) and about how to give our opinions on things (favourite seasons, holidays, sports etc).

As it's week two next week, I'm going to start the technique of revising a module from the previous week by first testing my memory of it, then looking at the notes to fill in gaps, and then look at the problem sheet. The point isn't to have remembered everything, just giving myself a second time not too far from the original lecture to have a look and retain more information than I did the first time round.

One poor lecturer, who has a lecture timetabled in what he admitted to be the worst possible timeslot (16:15 to 18:05), had people dismiss themselves by packing up as early as 7 minutes before the lecture was due to finish, and leaving as he played a video. I felt sorry for him, and I've decided to make this week's (hopefully) informative piece of writing on lectures and how to survive them, below.

Next week is where it all starts for me - getting into the swing of problem sheets, going to all of my lecturers and starting off my revision technique. See ya.





What are lectures like?

Guilty

I'm sure they do, I'd probably be escorted off the premises if I asked about a nymph that studied Biology

I'm never gonna lose the nymph tag am I? even though I'm now worldie!!!

sorry, that post seemed a bit silly even in context so off it goes you can be worldie from now on.

the post didn't offend me at all dw. ZuluK and Zarga and a few others are still calling me nymph. I find it funny.

what's a nymph? it sounds like a mystical creature.

In Greek and Roman mythology, a nymph is a nature spirit in the guise of an attractive maiden. Inhabiting forests, fields, caves, mountains, lakes, the sea, nymphs often suffered the attentions of men, notably those of the gods; the free-spirited Daphne turned herself into a laurel tree to avoid Apollo's amorous advances.

Today, "nymph" refers to a woman who has an insatiable sexual appetite (i.e., a woman who has the sexual drive of a man).

From Urban dictionary.

Essentially the first definition is what I was going for....but I think I have been mistaken for the "today" version