It felt home. A teacher, classmates, lesson, listening ears, familiar setting, excitement for learning.
Perhaps, this is the ultimate reward. Despite complaints and dread for requirements and the unknown for the term ahead, every time I am already in the learning sphere, I feel good. At least during Math sessions.
I do not know with anyone else but that is what I feel when I'm inside the classroom, physical or virtual.
Last night, we had session from 5:30 to 7:30. The schedule is supposedly from 5:30 to 9:30 but we finished earlier, thankfully. I can't spend all those hours in synchronous classes. Even just after 30 minutes last night, the household was already rowdy. I already told them beforehand I will be having class. But some of them even comes beside me to make face and show unnecessary things to the virtual room. It's good that we are allowed to turn our videos off. Only our teacher had his video on.
We started with some sort of introduction. I told Sir that I was sorry I wasn't able to attend the past two weeks. I told him I had no excuses. Which is true. There is no point in lying. I am more of a loser if I lie. I honestly told him that it slipped my mind. I thought, no worries Sir because you will see how good I am. Of course this is just a simple declaration of positivity. Why not? I can make time to study and there is no reason for us to not do what is required of us. If we can make time, writing, definitely we can make time for other equally important things.
Our classmate started with her report regarding the applications of Mathematics as a Study of Patterns. What was notable was her discussion with Fibonacci Sequence. Every time Fibonacci is mentioned we also hear the golden ratio. I was just amazed how Math is very much applied to almost everything we see.
It's rather sad that Math is perceived by many as some threat to their academic records. Not all but many. On the other hand, those who happen to appreciate the subject can go a long way to pursuing them later in life.
I was really not into Math during my primary years. But after my older sister taught me a few lessons, I became a Math lover instantly. Until it became just my dream in college. I enrolled BS Mathematics. I was even dreadful that we had other subjects termed as minor subjects. Although I was interested in other areas before, as I decided to learn only Math, I became distant with all other subjects which shouldn't have been the correct approach back then. I've been a nerd but I realized that my knowledge was still not enough up to these days. I needed to learn more more more.
But as human persons, we also are prone to committing decisions that were really not what we've wanted. But since it happened already, here I am, with my family of my own now. Glad I have enrolled again despite everything.
I only have 6 units now because I don't want to take everything at once. 9 units or 12 units is already too much. 3 or 6 units will do.
I want to just 'pass' the subjects now so that there will be less stress. hahahaha. But I know that won't be my standards. But who knows, I really want to do away with too much pressure. What would be more important is that I understand the lesson. Right?
The second part of our session last night was a discussion by our professor about Set Theory. Honestly, it was only now that I was able to grasp the whole picture about set theory. Geeeeez... How come I did not understand it before? But then again, it may have something to do with my preconceptions and self-doubts about my ability learning the topic.
In set theory, we first were presented with few historical notes and figures then with definition of terms like, definition of set, universal set, subset, proper/improper subset, union of sets, intersection of sets, operators in logic (and, or, not, nor), etc.
Fortunately, I was able to follow in the discussion. The same things were discussed last term in our Statistical Theory subject. But the topic this time is more basic than last term. By the way our subject is combination of Math subjects. It's like general mathematics but just presented differently than in senior high school. I don't know, maybe they keep bugging us with subjects like this for refreshment of the mind. Hehehe. But then the resource and time is not a joke. But I'm not a curriculum developer so the best I could do is accomplish my assignments.
We ended our lesson with question and answer portion. Afterwards we bid goodbye with each other. It felt home.
