By tim, on March 24th, 2012 at 12:48 pm It’s just before 11am on Saturday morning and I’m already through week 3 of the course, having successfully completed the homework assignments and the lab. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m now getting into the swing of the material, or because the course has moved onto digital logic and devices like transistors and diodes that I’m comfortable with, but it seems to have become considerably easier going this week. I certainly find it easier to conceptualize these things than simply chasing mathematical formulae around circuits consisting just of voltage and current sources, that’s for sure.
I’m not sure that . . . → Read More: MITx 6.002x – week 3: So what exactly is an “expo dweeb”?
By tim, on March 17th, 2012 at 11:28 pm I’ve just finished hacking my way through the week 2 homework and lab. This week has focussed on the use of superposition and the Thévenin and Norton methods for analysing linear circuits, followed by a brief canter through some basic digital logic.
Three tasks were set for this week’s homework. The first was to find suitable resistance values from the E12 range to complete a voltage divider, which was relatively straightforward. The third task was to complete a truth table for a digital logic circuit and work out which one of three other circuits were equivalent to it. Again, pretty . . . → Read More: MITx 6.002x – week 2
By tim, on March 10th, 2012 at 5:12 pm I’ve just completed my first lab and “homework” for MITx 6.002x – and I achieved a decent result too!
However, before I get too excited, I need to point out that they have a rather odd system of marking assignments – and one that anyone who’s studied an OU course would love!
You are allowed to make as many attempts at each question as you want. Not only that, but it the course software gives you instant feedback on whether your answer was right or wrong. So getting 100% (or close to it) didn’t ought to be that difficult . . . → Read More: MITx 6.002x – week 1
By tim, on March 3rd, 2012 at 9:45 am Just brilliant!
As a former DD307 student, I empathise completely. Particularly with the bit where Surf Teddy is hiding under his textbook. Oh, and his inability to spell Phenonominololology too
(Hat tip to Dan at History of the OU for alerting me to its existence and thank you to Eddie at the finance academy for such a creative piece of procrastination!)
By tim, on September 18th, 2011 at 9:29 pm I appear to have become better at critical social psychology (orange line) and worse at biological psychology (blue line) as the year has progressed!
However, if I somehow manage to end up with EMA and examination marks in both similar to the last TMA scores, I’ll be very happy indeed.
By tim, on September 7th, 2011 at 8:46 pm There’s nothing like an OUPS revision weekend to reignite my enthusiasm for psychology and focus my mind on the task in hand – the exam on the afternoon of 13th October. When I got home on Sunday evening, I decided that this week needed to be ‘mopping up week’. My list of tasks was/is as follows:
1. Decide which three of the four blocks from the course I’m going to revise. That task was easy and I’d already come to the conclusion that the block on social selves (2) was going to have to go, as it has four chapters . . . → Read More: Mopping up week
By tim, on August 29th, 2011 at 9:05 pm My attempt to complete DD307 TMA06 and the SD226 EMA in a bank holiday weekend has now finished. Strictly speaking, it’s ended in failure, but only just. At the end of the weekend I now have a complete DD307 TMA06, a complete Q1 for the SD226 EMA, as well as draft answers and notes for the remaining two questions and experimental project writeup. A couple more evenings work this week should get me there I think.
Which should leave me in a more relaxed mood for the OUPS DD307 revision weekend at Warwick University on Friday and give me a . . . → Read More: Mission improbable – the end of the beginning
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