Stress and Burn

As the long weekend rolls in, I realized that I'm falling into a downwards spiral of procrastinated work and final exams. On top of realizing that I hadn't updated my slog in 2 weeks, mostly because I don't have much to write about.

Since ranting about how busy I am (which is probably 100% my own fault) is boring, I decided to waste even more time for stress relief and create a representation of my mental state:



I'll probably report after I finish (or start) assignment 3.

Two's Two (to Tutu?)

I'm betting a bunch of people will be writing a SLOG post in the next few days, or at least when we get our midterms back. Excuse the title. I honestly couldn't think of any puns, so I figured I'd talk about my main problem (question two on midterm two). Which I could have probably written as II-2, 2-2, 2-II, or Tutu. (Explaining jokes makes them so much funnier. Sarcasm intended.)

Personally, I found the midterm pretty okay. My preparation consisted of this: Writing down every identity on my cheat sheet and answering questions 1 & 3 on the sample midterm. On the sample midterm, there was a question that used ceilings, so I decided to write down our whole proof structure from our notes (regarding floors and x + 1, x - 1) onto the cheat sheet. Fortunately, that was the last question of the exam, so that took all of 2 minutes.

The main problem I had was the second question. I'm still not sure if I solved it right, though everything seems to have made sense to me. It was definitely the hardest one on the test, though I might have over complicated it when thinking about it.

And since I'm pretty much going backwards, question 1 was pretty good. Required partial factoring, which we've done a lot of, and overall, it wasn't too bad. Here's hoping my marks agree with me.

Marching into March

I really should've posted this on Friday, since that was March 1st, but my ability to keep track of dates (or lack thereof) seems to have completely ruined that possibility. Slowly, my SLOG is becoming more inactive, especially since I forgot to post after reading week, which most people seem to have done. For the record, I spent it watching Hey Arnold. I wasn't productive in the slightest.

I do believe I've given up on attempting to solve the problem from a few weeks ago (February 15th), since my mind has totally died out. Which is a shame, but maybe one day I'll try and revisit it. Maybe at some point in time when I'm not trying to desperately avoid assignments and midterms. Speaking of which, progress on assignment 2 has just been splendid.

Since the due date hasn't passed, I'll keep this spoiler-free and completely ambiguous. About 80% of my problem with a2 was "Am I even writing this properly?" and doubting myself. I honestly like proofs, but I'm horrible at writing them. I can put down the basic structure and figure out the logic mathematically, but I tend to create my own variables for temporary use and at that point, I have no idea if I'm supposed to add a line noting that "k∈ℝ" or if it's fine if I just use it in the definition of, let's say, z. For example "z = ki" (for the sake of it, let's just say i was already declared as some number). Do I really need a whole line saying "Let k∈ℝ" or "∃k∈ℝ, z = ki"? And if I do, which form do I use? My sister and I decided to omit the line for now, but I'll probably post this on Piazza after I upload this post. Also, if my whole statement that I'm trying to prove is an existential, where I don't even need an "Assume" statement, do I have to indent at all? It looks extremely strange, but I don't see how I would indent it.

For the record, question 6 seems to be the hardest for me to prove, since I'm not sure if an assumption I'm making is even valid. Oh well, part marks for structure!