Third evening at college today and I finally feel we’re getting somewhere. Still on the basic arithmetic stuff, but at least we have a lecturer who is likely to stay with us for a while until the scheduled guy gets back. He was off sick last week (and this) so we’ve had three different lecturers in three weeks. Still, I suppose we'll get to see him one day. The stand-in lecturer we had last week did very well under the circumstances, and we finished early, so that was a bonus. Had to work the full stint tonight though (Shame! Mutinous murmurings among the hoi-polloi! LOL) but I did manage to impress tonight's lecturer by answering "infinity" to one question! Amazing that more people don't know the "lazy eight".
Not as many of us there this time, so we might have the 2 classes merged next week. I’m getting to know the others in the class and we seem to be gelling as a group. It’s nice to be back in a “communal” environment after years of working essentially as a one-man band in my day job.
I'm feeling pretty relaxed about this course at present, but we haven't got into Statistics or Algebra yet. I struggled with those at school years ago but I'm hoping the passing years have helped, and a friend of mine has offered to help with the Stats stuff if (more likely when!) I need it. Geometry is also waiting for us somewhere down the road but that shouldn’t be too difficult. I just have to remember it’s plane not spherical geometry.
A friend of mine has just started to post some of his photos on a site called www.treklens.com so we're sharing our novice experiences over a pint in the pub. Some of the stuff he’s posted is pretty good and he’s been getting some nice feedback. And I’ve mentioned to another friend that I’ve started this blog, since he was one of the main voices saying I should get my ideas on paper (or should that be on screen?). I await his comments with interest.
There have been a couple of interesting articles in “New Scientist” in the last couple of weeks. Of course, there are always interesting articles in “New Scientist”, but some pique my curiosity more than others. I have a training course in work all day tomorrow, however, so there isn’t really time for a long comment this evening.