First week of classes is over, and you know what that means: first impressions of classes!

I’m currently registered in three classes, like always. This semester’s three lucky courses are CMPT 307 (Data Structures and Algorithms), CMPT 471 (Networking II), and JAPN 100 (Introduction to Japanese I).

CMPT 307 is going alright thus far. So far, we have been doing some review on topics touched on in CMPT 225, MACM 101, and MACM 201, going through stuff on O-notation and series so far. This is reportedly a weeder course, so I shall be on my guard and focus better.

CMPT 471 so far has been review on stuff in CMPT 371 (Data Communications and Networking), mainly on Ethernet. The first class was a sleeper, with it on how to use Unix. Unfortunately, I found myself falling asleep in lecture for all three classes so far. I guess there are several reasons why this is the case.

• The class is immediately after 307.
• We have been covering topics that we already covered before in a previous class that just so happens to be a pre-requisite for this class.
• The lecture slides are all PowerPoints, each with extensive amounts of notes and points. Not exactly what I like for lecture materials..

I just hope things pick up next week.

JAPN 100 is my first class ever at the Harbour Centre campus, let alone a SFU satelite campus. But so far, it’s quite interesting. Just after four hours of class, our instructor wants us to learn all 46 ひらがな characters! Taking this course has opened my eyes to what I have forgotten about in terms of how to learn: following through on course materials learned that day. Of course, going to the “On Your Way To An A” course helped with that as well.

When I went to Nancy, one of our academic advisors, to talk to her about not going to CUTC anymore due to personal academic worries, she suggested I do something on time management from SFU Learning Commons. I ended up going to the first offering of “On Your Way To An A”, since that has stuff on time management and study tips. Going to put those things learned into practice!

Going to go do some work and sleep earlier – sleeping constantly at 3 because of Infantry does not exactly help me follow through on my New Year’s Resolution.

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