12th February 2006 - Day 118

I did pretty much the same things today as I did for most of the other Sundays here. Yes, the oily breakfast again.

Progress in terms of preparation for exams remains slow. I am getting dangerously optimistic again. I have to constantly remind myself that I will not be able to finish everything if I continue like this. And by everything, I mean everything that I have spotted.

I'm not terribly good at spotting questions. In fact, the last time I tried spotting questions for my exams, it was a total disaster. Absolutely nothing that I had spent my time on mastering came out. Not even as a part question a, b, c or i, ii, iii. I should say I deserved it since I was completely off the focus of the lecture.

I looked through the notes of a corresponding module in NUS (which was kindly sent to me by a classmate whose name and my name are inversion of each other) and the one which I'm doing here. There seems to be fundamental differences in which the same topic is presented.

National University of Singapore:
Understand concepts through examples.
Never mind the nitty gritty.
Just apply the equations to get the answers!

Universität Karlsruhe:
Without concepts, you cannot understand examples.
Derive, proof and show how the equations come about.
Explain the usage of a certain equation in a given problem.

Of course, these are just generalisations based solely on my observations. It might not be true for other modules. Hah. Talk about hypothesis. But the Stichprobenumfang is not big enough.

Ok. Enough of nonsense.

Each method works for different groups of people. I think they complement each other quite well.

But too bad. That would be too much to fit in a semester.

So, just solve the immediate problem and move on.