H U

Well, I've put in some time with varying the blog content, so I think I can get away with a classic course-related post "without loss of generality" (to sound all topological). I'll have to keep it short as I'm in the middle of an indescribably boring translation about railway crossings, that is due in at 1am. I'm a bit behind schedule (when am I ever not behind...on anything?), so it is looking like this it will be an all-day affair (again!) :(

Anyways, I got back M336 TMA02 about two weeks ago: 100%! Or "HU" as they seem to call it. A heads up on what that stands for would be gladly welcomed. I felt somewhat vindicated to get that 100%, when I robbed myself of full marks last time by not copying out one of the answers properly.

And yesterday, after waiting a fortnight and beginning to worry that it hadn't arrived to my tutor, I got back M338 TMA03. HU again! Oh my god. I couldn't believe it. I mean, I thought I had all the right answers, but I always drop marks somewhere, and the full justification requested in the final question had me sure I'd missed something. Apparently not though.

Kim played a trick on me; as I think I mentioned before, she opens it for me if I'm worried for whatever reason. Well, I wasn't worried, but she was there and offered to open it for me. So I passed it across, and she opened it and for a moment looked concerned and confused, "hmmmm". After a while...
Kim: Oh I see....
Me: Huh? What do you see!?
Kim: ...because I can see the marks for the individual sections, but there's no overall mark! (smiles)
Me: It's HU!!!?
Kim: I hate you!

I haven't had 100% since TMA04 of MST121, which was totally undeserved, because I couldn't be bothered to study that block due to my aversion to all things statsy, and just hunted for the relevant parts to the assignment. Rather naughty for sure, but I was in my overlap with MS221 by then and was involved in much more interesting maths at that end. However, I then ended up with two hundreds in the space of a few weeks.

These results will be very useful. The M336 ones so far have given me a large buffer to work with (and alleviate a little of the fear I felt when I opened Unit GR3 only to notice I didn't understand anything on the first two pages - looks like I need to revise a bit before tackling it). And the M338 mark has balanced out my lower mark for TMA02, where I didn't manage to answer all the questions.

I say this to myself every time a good result comes back (or when a bad one comes back come to think of it), but I'm hoping this will incentivise me to start working harder. I don't make good use of my free time, especially when I have the house to myself when Kim's at work and I could potentially do many uninterrupted hours of study. So I need to sort that out. My mindset at the moment is that I'm ready and looking forward to working harder from now on, which means from tomorrow because of this job I'm doing. Hopefully, this time, I'll actually manage to fight my innate laziness and do it.

Neil H