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.]
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I'll spend this weekend with my wife. Because I love her beyond reason.New comment
I think that is really touching. I'm sure she will appreciate it. Nice one Neil.
I wish they had a smiley with a thumbs up.
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It's always difficult when you prefer one course over the other course(s) you're studying. I found M255 much more fluid to learn and therefore would happily speed through it compared to M263. I've been combining studying one maths course and one computing course each year so that I can swap between learning styles and not get so bored. I have a very low boredom threshold! But I do have a marked preference for the computing courses. I love the maths courses but they are much more intense brain-wise both reading and learning on any given page compared to the computing courses at least at Level 2 anyway. I haven't studied any Level 3 maths yet but I imagine it is going to be intense.
Because the computing courses are easier to digest I'm always pulled magnetically towards the computing units rather than getting on with the maths even when I know I have to get the maths units done or suffer the consequences come the TMA deadline. Of course the satisfaction of getting the maths set correctly in my brain is stronger than banging out a piece of TMA code based on a Unit SAQ. The maths is harder for me to get to grips with but gives a stronger sense of achievement so it is a fair trade of effort for reward.
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@marion
snap.
I'm guessing that you, like me, do the maths stuff because we could do the computing stuff and wanted to know why.
neil
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Glad to see you've found a new love I think once you've penetrated all the jargon it really shines through. Take it all the way and you'll be wanting to understand the singularity theorems of General Relatvity which Hawking and Penrose used topology to prove. And don't kid me that M381 will be your last maths course. You'll be on the MSc as well.
Chris
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I may have to, to keep you in line Chris!
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neil