Sunday, October 5, 2008

Week 4: A1 down, Term Test #1 to come.

Well I made it through A1, after a few office visits and a lot of asking TAs stupid questions. Imagine my surprise after finding out from a TA that we're allowed to simply state that Phi is greater than zero while I spent hours attempting to prove it, rather unsuccessfully, with the information given in question three. But its over, that's what counts.
I'm slightly worried about the upcoming term test since we really didn't cover all that much - only Simple Induction, Complete Induction, and a bit of Well Ordering. I really really hope that some practice problems will be posted along with some past tests, that would help give me a good gauge of the difficulty of the test. I've done the few questions in the textbook that seem relevant and reviewed lecture notes, the assignment, and the problem sets, but I still don't feel comfortable without having brand new questions to practice on. I'm hoping that the test will have a postage question, those aren't overly difficult yet are easy to come up with, plus they can be done with Simple Induction or Complete Induction. Or maybe a question involving types of sets, where it has to be partitioned into sets without a certain element and sets with that element. I'd rather there not be any questions with Well Ordering since it seems disconnected from induction proofs and we haven't studied it in much detail in the lectures. But overall I believe this first test won't be too much of a problem because I've learned induction before CSC236.
All that's left to do is study and not get consumed in the wave of work that comes every October. Oh October, I've come to loathe you, your constant battery of assignments, midterms, and whatever foul bits of education you can spew from your seasonal depths. But you have Halloween, so I forgive you. Atleast until next October.
I really need more free time.

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