Weeks 2 & 3: Group Work and Getting to Know the Class

The past two weeks have been dedicated to getting to know the other people in the class and forming friendship groups that could be useful for completing the assignments that will be set out before us in the coming months.

We have settled in to Tapton House quite well and have found ourselves a seating plan that we can all agree on. We are all within our smaller peer groups, though we do still communicate with the rest of the class.
The whole class seem to get along well without any friction, which is great - on my previous course the class got split in to two or three different groups of peers who seemed to cause a little friction with one another, though a lot of the people who found that the course wasn't for them had left by the start of the second year and the entire class was less tense.

The cue for the canteen up here is ridiculous on a Thursday, though. It can take up to ten minutes to get a bottle of water, but that's a given; a lot of people are in at the beginning and end of the week, though I imagine Wednesday to be the worst day of them all.

'Mathematics and Problem Solving' is proving to quite difficult and in-depth. The binary and hexadecimal work is quite hard, but once we know the number systems properly then it won't be so bad - I've only had experience with binary once before on the first year of the BTEC course, so I'd forgotten quite a lot about how the system works.

Will post again this time next week.

- Alex.