A delayed update

So its been about 2 weeks since my last entry so I'll be making this one longer to cover what I have neglected. I left off after finishing Problem Set #1 and just starting the second one. It was much easier than I anticipated from my initial glance and I finished it without too much difficulty. Definitely gave me a nice confidence boost. Lectures have been going better since I switched over to the morning section and I'm rather happy with my decision. Keeping my sleeping habits more regulated is something I definitely have to work on and this is one way to motivate myself..

Assignment 1 was the next recent development and I found it fairly difficult. The first question was fairly straight forward once you conceptualized what was happening with the triangles and the most difficult part of it was translating your thoughts into a written proof. Number two was very confusing for me and I was happy to have my group members there to help explain it. Number three I also had some trouble with and will be going over both of them for this midterm. Hopefully by Friday I am completely comfortable with them.

Since my last entry we have covered a few new topics and a few haven't been entirely clear to me, something I definitely have to clear up before the upcoming midterm. Unwinding was pretty complicated to me and I'm sure I will be rereading those lecture slides many times before Friday. On a lighter note, I like that we are dealing with the Fibonacci sequence, its cool how we can prove things recursively, albeit somewhat complicated at times.

I remember I was the same in CSC165 around this time of the semester where I really stopped understanding a lot of things. It always takes a little while for my brain to get going and for concepts to really sink in at the beginning of a semester. I'm guessing this is mostly from lack of practice, as in 165 (as well as a few other courses) by mid semester I was fairly comfortable with most material and was learning things much quicker. Hopefully this semester will continue this trend as my classes are really just bombarding me with information right now. Really hope I can kick things in gear for this midterm, which is only my 2nd test this semester (the first being today in Linear Algebra..which I feel went well). Anyways besides that there has been no problem set this week so there isn't too much to talk about, I better get studying :)