thefonz on 9/5/2010 at 10:13
I'm currently in a mass clean-up and organising firefight pending my move to Australia in a couple of months. Going through my stuff its amazing what I deemed important to carry around with me in all my flat moves and just to "have" even though I have no reason to look at them or use them in any way in my time.
While going through my books yesterday I came across some notes from the Glasgow University days when studying for my Maths and Statistics degree. As part of the studying I would create 'bibles' highlighting the important parts of the lecture notes to help remember and understand and read on the bus instead of lugging all my pages of A4 notes around.
Flipping through those booklets I've carried around since those days I found, randomly interspersed with notes about Topology and Group Theory, random drawings - some from The Far Side and some just completely random or funny at the time.
Anyway, since these books are for the shredder since I simply cannot take them to Oz with me, I couldn't help but take photos of them. So here they are - enjoy.
Scots - assume you kept all your stuff too? There has to be some genius moments scrawled in your pages.
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Enchantermon on 9/5/2010 at 17:56
Cool stuff. I'd never be able to throw anything like that away; it amazes me that you're going to do it.
Aerothorn on 9/5/2010 at 20:27
I have a big pile of papers that fall into this category - most not by me, but rather interesting things I've accumulated. One of my favorites is a tryptch I submitted for a poetry class, which was then returned as the most awesome satire of a pretentious poetry revision I have ever seen. More enjambment, indeed.
Scots Taffer on 9/5/2010 at 23:52
I destroyed all my uni notes save for those that had some artistic merit in the side-margins from my Math/Stat degree. To be fair, it's nothing that you can't digest from a good cross-section of books and while my notes may have been pretty damn erudite at distilling the finer points they'll only be the salient for the examinations as opposed to the most important parts of the subject on a holistic basis.
In any case, I think I've left those scribbles back home so I'll dig them out when I return in July.
I've still saved all my notes from my second masters because that was actually the important one.
Enchantermon on 10/5/2010 at 00:45
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
. . . second masters . . .
You know, school's great and all, but...dang.
Scots Taffer on 10/5/2010 at 01:11
It was only a year of extra study.
Enchantermon on 10/5/2010 at 01:54
Really? Don't Masters normally take at least two? Though maybe it was less time since you already had one...
Still, there's an awful lot of writing papers involved, isn't there?
SubJeff on 10/5/2010 at 02:23
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
Really? Don't Masters normally take at least two? Though maybe it was less time since you already had one...
Still, there's an awful lot of writing papers involved, isn't there?
In the Uk its 1.
Scots Taffer on 10/5/2010 at 02:24
Of course, our Bachelor degrees typically only take 4 whereas in the US they are 5... isn't that so?
Enchantermon on 10/5/2010 at 02:31
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
In the Uk its 1.
Oh, duh, different education system. My bad.
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Of course, our Bachelor degrees typically only take 4 whereas in the US they are 5... isn't that so?
No, typical Bachelor degree in the US is also 4.
