Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Second Coming of the Duck

Second post.

Things are advancing quite nicely with the course. Tutorials are all going very well and help much in clarifying what I don't understand. Lectures also remain interesting, and I'm glad to not be completely lost within the P's and not-P's and contrapositives and such and such. Our first assignment will be the real test to see how I place though...

When first given the assignment, my primary reaction was to panic and deeply regret not having taken any notes during lectures. I'm just that bad at notes. However, I kicked myself into work-mode and revised the posted lecture notes and assigned readings, which slowly but surely brought me up to shape. The result is what I hope to be a successful assignment, and I have confidence in what I've written. I had intended to visit office hours, but I couldn't really think of any specific questions to ask and I doubted they would respond to "Are all of these right?" So I skipped on office hours ;)

My biggest fear while working on the assignment was converting it to PDF. I used Word and the built-in mathematical equation inserter to write up my work, but when I converted it all to PDF my equations all disappeared!! So I was pretty bummed about that. However, a quick look at Google told me to visit the Regional and Language Options in the control panel and to load up the "Files for Complex Script and right-to-left languages". Upon re-conversion to PDF, the equations were back! Problem solved and jig of success complete.

Hopefully the assignment will go well, or I shall fall into the deepest pit of despair. But still, better than philosophy essays :)

Peace out.

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