My last post was border-line nutcase.
Today has been no better: too much coffee, too much ersatz-red-bull, too much time spent scrawling figures onto paper and walls.
[I have a kind of stickyback plastic. A plastic that's meant as a temporary window repair material that I've stuck all-over one of the walls of my office—presto, a huge magnolia-board.]
As I walked home, or floated a few feet above the ground, as felt, I was happy that I was close to a finish. But the bottom has fallen out of one of my proofs. I fretted around for a while, that would be a shaking panicked thrashing, before the programmer in me took over—leave it, walk away, sleep on it. A first. Still tomorrow this stuff has to be in.
It's not right that I should be this close to finishing, never mind angling at a good mark. The toplogy course has been done, but the groups course? Basically I've done one unit, should I get any marks at all? No, but I'll get many.
Which leads me on to something that I've been fretting about: do you get better marks by attending tutorials? Are you disadvantaged by not having ... an let's be straight here ... being given an example of the ideas that you'll need to do one?
There have been at least a couple of times, over the last couple of days, where I had to re-write the fair-copy [FC] because I'd seen a more elegant way to do a something. There have also been times where I seemed to be groping in the darkness for even a kluge [:an inelegant solution may break.]
If I'd seen someone [A Wizard] work through, said things, I wouldn't have had to jump through so many personal-hoops. Is this good or bad? This having to work things out for yourself?
Today I had a breakthrough [I thought, maybe] , Titanium was on the radio, I was dancing around, singing along, when I spotted beaming workies watching me like a fish in a tank.
I don't want my discovery taken from me, but I do want good marks.
I'm a stupid sod.
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Combinations. Think of the keys as combination locks.
There are bad tutors.
There are useless tutorials.
There's poor judgement.
There's drink.
There's the opposite.
A TMA mark is a combination of so many things.
Simply being a sod and not attending tutorials is not excuse enough for a bad grade.
I would expect at least four debilitating factors.
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You mean to say you've done all the topology course I take my hat off to you I'm still struggling with the last part of Block A my brain is truly fucked by this one as you wished. However I think I did enough to give a reasonabe stab at the TMA. Not one of my better ones though.
BTW the last topology tutorial was useful but unusually for Alan not directly relevant to the TMA. The room was poky as well so you didn't miss much.
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Hi Neil..excellent tune..and funny story..brilliant
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Be Well
Anthony.
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Neil, you are hillarious! Hope you got the tma off. Mine has just gone - very close to the strike of noon.
Take care.
Sue
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@Chris I only meant that I'd finished block A
@All see my next post for the details...
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Ok I thought by some miracle you had raced ahead, I'm looking forward to Block B but need to keep consolidating my understanding of Block A. I think you need to go over and over the material before it sinks in. There is at the minute no sense of play maybe that will change with Block B, before Block C takes off where Block A left off.