Life will be harsh

I had been thinking about whether Maths B was suitable for me as a computer science student and I hadn't had one elective subject chosen. So I made an appointment with Louise Walker, who's my course adviser today at 11.

I hadn't know she worked all day even on holiday before she told me so. Well, the reason I was here today was that I had been told by my maths tutor that there were few people choosing Maths B each year. So I was wondering if this subject was good enough. However, Louise told me Maths B was definitely the best maths subject for computer science students. Hence I wouldn't have any doubts after the authority's announcement. For the unchosen subject, Louise asked me a question, which was really hard for me, "Do you wanna learn or wanna get a good mark?" I wanted to get good marks cos I wanted to take the honours study. Having said that, I wanted to learn something cos I thought uni was the only good opportunity that I could learn without worrying about anything else too much. So I told her I wanted to learn after 20 seconds' thinking. Then she recommended me philosophy, history and xxx (I forgot what it was at the moment). After tossing around a bit, I finally replaced Managing People and Organization which I had chosen before semester 1 by a philosophy subject - Great Ideas in Philosophy, and added another ESL subject - Academic English 1.

That means I will be struggling a great deal next semester cos the assessment of both subjects involves a lot of essay writing. For Academic English 2, there will be a 700 word assignment 20% (due mid semester), a 1500 word assignment 35% (due at the end of the semester) and an oral presentation of 800 words 25% (due at the end of the semester). For the philosophy subject, there will be a written assignment of 500 words 10% (due early in the semester), a written assignment of 1500 words 40% (due mid semester), a 2-hour written examination (not open-book) 47% (due at the end of semester) and tutorial participation 3%. These are just half of my work during semester, I will also be doing advanced maths and algorithmic problem solving, which will also take a lot of time. I will be having a harsh life in the second half of the year definitely. Essay writing is scary, because it took me sooooo long to get my essay for Academic English 1 done satisfactorily last semester. I worked on the draft for weeks, but needed to start it over again after the first evaluation, which took me another week to rearrange it and added something new to it. That's was really a nightmare and don wanna see it again. Hope everything goes well.

So I'm going to take maths and algorithms a bit seriously on winter holiday, wishing I would be struggling less with it when I'm overwhelmed with piles of assignments and homework. I've been relaxing for almost two weeks, which is quite enough I reckon cos I feel really bored. Let's get to work!