I don’t know what it is about Maths, but it has some very good ways of annoying the hell out of me. I now have a number of problems that I can’t figure out how to solve:

• Measure Theory assignment is due in tomorrow but I can’t complete question 8. Measure theory is just one big mess at the moment though; I can understand the concepts perfectly, but when it comes to actually sitting down and proving something I’m just ultimately screwed. I need to (re)learn some set theory.
• Dynamical Systems assignment is completely insane, to the point where I don’t think I’m going to be able to physically pass the exam or even do the damn thing.
• Rings and Modules is another great big mess of uncertainty. The probability is that this module is almost certainly going to be dropped come the end of the term. The lecturing is, quite frankly, terrible and needs to be sorted out.
• But if I drop that and don’t take Dynamical Systems, it will leave me with precisely 3 modules totalling 42 CATS this term – everything I want to take is next term. So I’d have to take ~100 CATS next term in order to get to my 150 total. Whee.
• Why am I still in the Maths Department?
• Why won’t Measure Theory go away and leave me alone?
• Am I ultimately screwed for this year?

I’m extremely frustrated about the Measure Theory, frankly. It just seems that I can’t get my head around the proofs. Every time I think I’m getting somewhere, the entire proof gets bodged and I’m screwed. Either that, or because I don’t know as much as I should, I think its bodged and re-do it 97 times only to have someone tell me it’s actually correct.

Plus I’m still struggling with infimums and suprema 2 years after we were taught them. This really can’t be a good sign.

9:44 pm | Posted in Academia, Maths, Warwick Blogs