Foreign Perspectives

Finishing the Signals & Perception (SD329) course a few weeks felt very much like throwing out the anchor to stop as the exam on the 15th marked the final day of my over-study period that started last October. The original plan had been that it would be a fairly full year but things rapidly got out of hand as the 12 months progressed which made it something of a hard slog. A very interesting slog mind you but hard going none-the-less.

So I now find myself all of a sudden just doing a single 20 point course. Well, to be fair, I have some pre-reading for the upcoming molecular & cell biology course (S377) to do over the next couple of months but even so it’s a radical change of pace from what was pretty much a whole year of more than 120 simultaneous points throughout with 180 points for fairly significant periods of time. The rapid change of pace meant that I ended up doing 3 weeks worth of the 20 pointer in four days so I had to stop work on it for a while as another week at that pace would have seen me up to the second assignment which is just too far ahead.

What it’s also let me do is to start catching up on things that I just didn’t have any time to do over the last year or so. It’ll take me another month or two to get back to “normal” but at least I’m heading in the right direction now. One of those “normal” things is, of course, the writing of the blog was has been rather neglected over the last year and I’ll be aiming to get back to my daily entries gradually.