Week 5

This week has been a difficult one for me. I don't think I did too well on the test even though I studied for it. I simply took too long trying to answer the questions and even then I wasn't entirely sure they were correct. This was especially frustrating to me since it was supposed to be an easy test as it was very similar to one of the past tests. I simply blanked out and couldn't recall how it was done on the old tests.

It didn't get any easier after the test. The lecture on the process of proofs was very difficult to comprehend to me. As I've stated before, I've never been very good at creating equations from scratch. I felt very lost as professor Zhang just pulled out equations from word problems very easily.

I also didn't understand the pre-tutorial homework very well as I didn't know what exactly it meant by proof structures though by the end of tutorial I understood what it meant and I think I understood the quiz. The real problem I feel is going to be the actual proofs that I will need to provide. I think I'll head into office hours for some extra help next week as I feel that it will only get worse from here.

Week 4

This week's lecture was mixed for me. Some of the lecture I understood and some I couldn't grasp very well. Implication, bi-implication, transitivity and mixed quantifiers I understood decently well. However, when the subject turned more mathematical, I simply got lost. It's been a long time since I've done proper math, and even then I wasn't too adept at it. So when the examples were presented they were a bit daunting to look at. When proofs came up it didn't get any easier for me. When the answers to the proof examples were presented I could follow the logic, however, I was never the best at creating my own equations from scratch so I knew it would be difficult for me to do on my own. Perhaps I will try to study more and see if I can do some examples on my own while studying for the midterm.