Nothing completes a good day quite like Metroid Prime
I've had quite a good day today. I pretty much put my personal statement behind me. Sam Potter's peer evaluation for his Darthmouth application is all done and checked, I just need to type it up for the final form. That Physics homework I was worried about wasn't mentioned at all. I managed to get out of doing Maths. Mentoring was fun, as usual, and the rest of the day was spent playing (by which I mean “winning at”) Street Fighter.
How I got out of Maths is actually kind of weird. Myself and another guy, Andrew Mackie, miss the main class on Fridays due to separate scheduling conflicts so we go second last lesson, joining in with a Higher class. We're kind of lucky since, rather than being stuck with a roomful of S5s or whatever, it's a small class consisting of people from our year who chose to do Higher Maths over two years.
The homework for today had been to complete the first couple of questions from an exercise consisting of six. We learned by asking around that nobody else had done this except for Andrew who had, in what must have been a gargantuan bout of boredom, elected to do the entire exercise. That morning, all everyone else had done was get a little further on, most barely completing the questions that had been set for homework.
So I decided, I've got nothing better to do, I may as well get on with this exercise and maybe I can get out of class later. So, over two free periods and a bit of lunch, I leisurely worked my way through the exercise in between bouts of Street Fighter EX II Plus, finding the whole thing rather enjoyable. When it came time for class, we went along, copied down a note everyone else had got that showed us who to do the work we had gone ahead and done anyway and then left.
Okay, so it's not a hugely weird story, but the strange thing is that I actually quite enjoyed doing the Maths work. Everyone else seemed to struggle with it a bit but I actually found it quite relaxing, seeing everything slot logically into place as I worked through page after jotter page of powers and derivatives. I wouldn't call it fun exactly, but there was a certain amount of exhilaration every time I peeked at the answers and saw that my ten minutes work hadn't been in vain.
And, of course, there was that great feeling of superiority that comes from doing in three seconds flat the mental sums that an S2 Maths class was struggling over. It's not quite so impressive but it does remind me of just how far I've come in my knowledge and abilities in just a few years.
Well, my finger's bleeding and I want to watch an episode of Heroes before bed, so I'll be off now. As a last note, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is awesome. I intend to play a lot more of it over the weekend, in between catching up on Phantom Hourglass.
How I got out of Maths is actually kind of weird. Myself and another guy, Andrew Mackie, miss the main class on Fridays due to separate scheduling conflicts so we go second last lesson, joining in with a Higher class. We're kind of lucky since, rather than being stuck with a roomful of S5s or whatever, it's a small class consisting of people from our year who chose to do Higher Maths over two years.
The homework for today had been to complete the first couple of questions from an exercise consisting of six. We learned by asking around that nobody else had done this except for Andrew who had, in what must have been a gargantuan bout of boredom, elected to do the entire exercise. That morning, all everyone else had done was get a little further on, most barely completing the questions that had been set for homework.
So I decided, I've got nothing better to do, I may as well get on with this exercise and maybe I can get out of class later. So, over two free periods and a bit of lunch, I leisurely worked my way through the exercise in between bouts of Street Fighter EX II Plus, finding the whole thing rather enjoyable. When it came time for class, we went along, copied down a note everyone else had got that showed us who to do the work we had gone ahead and done anyway and then left.
Okay, so it's not a hugely weird story, but the strange thing is that I actually quite enjoyed doing the Maths work. Everyone else seemed to struggle with it a bit but I actually found it quite relaxing, seeing everything slot logically into place as I worked through page after jotter page of powers and derivatives. I wouldn't call it fun exactly, but there was a certain amount of exhilaration every time I peeked at the answers and saw that my ten minutes work hadn't been in vain.
And, of course, there was that great feeling of superiority that comes from doing in three seconds flat the mental sums that an S2 Maths class was struggling over. It's not quite so impressive but it does remind me of just how far I've come in my knowledge and abilities in just a few years.
Well, my finger's bleeding and I want to watch an episode of Heroes before bed, so I'll be off now. As a last note, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is awesome. I intend to play a lot more of it over the weekend, in between catching up on Phantom Hourglass.
posted by Alasdair Corbett at
11:30 PM
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