Into Week 2 of Sem 2

I'm quite glad I got almost all my desired tutorial slots as I actually thought I wouldn't be able to get most of them. Unfortunately though, I've been allocated a CS1010E tutorial which happens to be at ungodly hours. Hopefully I can get the 1-2pm slot tomorrow during Add/Drop/Swap.

So far, EC3312 and EC3333 are still fairly easy. However, I sort of dislike EC3333's style of teaching in the sense that the lecture notes takes snippets of contents from all over the textbook so I tend to miss the big picture in mind when I study for it. I mean I can't blame Prof Lu cos' the textbook we use is apparently for MBA students so if we were to study entire chapters, it might be a little advanced. But this also means that if the lecture notes are not uploaded early, I wouldn't be able to self-study to get ahead for this module. It seems for now that there is close to zero derivation in this module. Mostly are understanding and applying the formulas though I must say in order to appreciate whatever that's going to be taught in this module, it will be beneficial to have a solid foundation of mathematics and statistics. Otherwise, if you're really left with no choice, you can attempt to memorize those formulas by hard (but that just defeats the whole purpose of learning). On the other hand, EC3312 seems pretty interesting. Prof Sun's lectures are a tad lively and yes, that's probably the first time I ever said that a lecture is lively. But as I'm not very good with formal mathematical representations, I tend to take some time understanding the proofs.

ST2132 is also pretty doable for now. However, I'm lagging behind for ST3131. Now that's the problem with skipping lectures; you have to be disciplined and always be ahead of others. And it doesn't help that I need the earlier chapters of ST2132 to start on ST3131 because fortunately or unfortunately, it seems that ever since Prof Kuk has taken over, ST3131 has lost its reputation of being the easiest level-3000 module. As far as I know, many people were either not listening or trying their best to understand the material covered in the notes during lecture last Friday. I guess most people are still in the festive mood like me. But I constantly remind myself not to repeat the same mistake of excessive procrastination like what happened for MA1506 and ST2131.

Sadly, I haven't started on CS1010E. Well, the thing is probably only 1% of the industries in Singapore uses C so I got pretty much no idea as to why we are still learning this obsolete language. Even C++ or C# would have a relatively higher degree of relevance.

And yeah, I guess that's all for now. For the whole of last week, I've been busy trying to adapt myself back to school and of course, in all honesty, to recover (as I was sick and did not manage to make it to school until last Wednesday). So that means I've quite a lot of catching up to do and will be very busy this week, hopefully.