And for the first time in a considerable while I have the entire thing off. That would be off from work, tutorials and wife-imposed tasks. What to do?
Well if, like me, you're a hamster on the OU treadmill you know the answer to that one—catch up with the course schedule, do a TMA, waste time on the blogs & fora.
The big task for this weekend is to make a first [real] stab at TMA01 for the topology course. I've still got a couple of weeks leeway; but experience shows that a couple of weeks turns into a day all-too rapidly.
I'd rather forge ahead with unit two of said course—metric spaces. However there are problems with that:
- Already I'm leaving the group course neglected
- I don't properly grok unit 1 of the toplology course. I've been bitten by my reliance on a shoogly understanding before
- I need to, at least to try, to force myself to do things when I don't really want to do them
The big problem is that I've fallen in love with topology.
I'm neither nilo nor chris, I just follow the set paths. I don't really think. I don't look ahead. Maths for me is a way to an understanding of, what I want to do, computing.
This topology course is the, a first for me, OU course, that leads to a beautiful new view of our existence.
I'm humbled.
[but still looking closely with my mind in my hand.]