Clearing the plate

I sent in my funal TMA for M257 this morning, which means it's over apart from the exam in June. That on top of getting my first M362 TMA in a couple of days ago, and my closing in on completing MST121 means I'm finally clearing off what was a very crowded plate!

The truth is, I bit off more than I could chew this year. 110 credits in a year is theoretically 1100 hours of study, which amounts to a tad over 3 hours per day, holidays included!

Add to that a demanding full-time job, and I'm starting to realise why I've been struggling.

But I'm starting to feel in control of the situation again, so that's got to be good.

M362 First TMA completed

Well, I finally got around to doing this. I only had a week to spare, but it took less time than I expected. The coding tasks were straight forward, but I didn't enjoy the other parts. Too much "discuss..." or "explain why..." for my liking, I much prefer just cranking out program code. My mark will probably suffer as a result.

Still, it's off my plate now and I can focus on MS221 with the dreaded exam looming ever nearer!

MS221 TMA03 marked

My TMA03 for MS221 came through the letter box. I was fairly confident I'd done a good job on this one, and was extremely happy to see that I'd got 97%. Assuming there are no mistakes on the addition, this means that todate, my scores on MS221 are slightly better than on MST121, which is pretty wierd really since MS221 is a level 2 module and MST121 is only level 1.

Still, as I keep reminding myself, it counts for nothing if I don't do well in the exam.

MST121 TMA03 mark

The TMA03 mark appeared on my student homepage. (I like the word 'student' as it makes me feel much younger than I am) and I got 94%. I had 96% when I got the paper back from my tutor last week, but there was a mistake on the adding up. I always see the funny side of this, when I've been struggling with calculus and functions, formulae etc. that my marks can be added up wrong.

Anyway I don't really care, because I thought this was the poorest TMA I'd submitted, and 94% is more than I was expecting.