SLOG 1: Week 2

Needless to say, the past two weeks have been a tumultuous start to my my undergraduate career. In summary: relearning old material, and learning new material -- with a dash of chaos and disorder mixed in between.

I am taking CSC165 in conjunction with a couple of other related courses. The classes that I find most relevent are CSC108(Intro to Computer Programming) and MAT223(Linear Algebra I). CSC165 places an emphasis on logical thought and reasoning: it is about expressing yourself precisely and without ambiguity, utilizing mathematical notation to communicate yourself. CSC108 is also focused on expressing human ideas in a new computer language(Python). Alternately, MAT223 is not about converting human ideas and expressions into a new "language"; instead, we are learning about utilizing echelon matrices to convert mathematical equations into a form in which we can easily solve a system of linear equations. Although I do not know enough about my courses to accurately represent or summarize them in their entirety, these are my initial impressions of these courses.

It can be a little difficult to wrap my head around these concepts, and I am continually learning that the concepts that I thought I understood during lectures are actually a complete mystery to me outside of lecture.  My plan of action: review until I hammer the concepts down.