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Catching up on lecture recordings I missed during the semester. This one, statics and dynamics!

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Teaching block end!

So on Friday was my last day of lectures for the semester! Now it’s revision week then I’ve got my exams spread out between 9th December and 20th December so it’s likely to be a slightly boring couple of weeks. Here’s a little update of how I’ve found my modules this semester.

Physics 1A: probably my most enjoyable module, no surprises there given I study a physics degree so I do love the subject. I’ve got my coursework mark back (physics coursework is a combination of weekly reading tests, fortnightly written assignments and a class test we did). My overall (unmoderated) coursework grade is 92% which is an A1 grade (the gradings for Pre-Honours go from A1 down to A3 which are all Firsts, then B is a 2:1 and C is a 2:2)

Introduction to Linear Algebra: I’d say this is the most conceptually challenging course I’ve taken this semester, a lot of the concepts are new and it’s mainly vectors. I’ve definitely spend more hours on this than any of my other courses, because we’ve had 2 weekly reading quizzes, a weekly assessment, and a weekly hand in so if you get behind on just one of these it’s very hard to catch up. My advice to anyone thinking of taking this course is do everything as it comes so you don’t end up all stressed. My coursework mark for this was 97% (A1).

Astrobiology: this course is a bit out there, and it’s a mash up of all the sciences nd geology so it’s very hard to perform well on all of it as everyone has different strengths, and it’s kind of helped me overcome my obsession with wanting to do perfectly at everything. I haven’t got my coursework mark yet as they use your best 4/5 assignments and my 5th one hasn’t been marked yet and because I did badly on the first assignment I’m hoping my mark will go up. If I didn’t, my mark is at least 84%, which is an A2.

Best of luck to you all in your revision over the next few weeks if you have exams 🥰 I’m rooting for y’all!

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Hey so I’ve had a super hectic few weeks but finally got time to post as I’ve been doing maths all day and I feel like if I do any more I might die or my head might explode...

So little recap of the past two weeks...

I’ve done 5 maths (specifically the Introduction to Linear Algebra course) reading tests and got 100% in all of them. I’ve been absolutely terrified of being the worst in my year so I’ve just been working so damn hard so far but also giving myself time to go running and chill and watch Bake Off and Strictly so I don’t burn out like I did last year, and the year before, and the year before... so far I’m feeling alright though! I’ve also had one consolidating class test (also ILE) which I got full marks in too. Again, I have no natural talent at all for maths, I’ve just been doing my best to work as hard as I can, whilst still being effective. I don’t work for hours and hours each day, what I try to do is 3 very focused hours where I don’t take breaks, then I have the rest of the day to go to lectures, eat, have lunch, do sport, and often I’ll do a bit more work in the evening. It works for me but doesn’t work for anyone else I know to be honest.

As for physics, in my first reading quiz, I made two stupid unit conversion mistakes which ruined two subsets of questions so I got 60%, but then in the next weeks reading test, I got full marks because I went over my unit conversion stuff.

I’m settled in pretty well now. I was settled in but now my anxiety disorder has been causing me a lot of grief so simple tasks like walking down the street causes me so much fear so I’ve had to go back on medication for it whilst I get put on a year long waiting list for therapy. Everything a bit scary but I’m coping pretty well in the sense that I’m doing the things everyone says are good for coping with anxiety - exercising, eating well, facing what I’m scared of, but not much is helping at the moment. But if I ride the storm, it’ll all pass, and everything will get better again <3 never lose hope guys.

Lots of love my friends and I hope to get some better quality content soon.

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This year’s physics modules

Yesterday I had my meeting to formally enrol me in my courses and talk about options. I had the opportunity to choose direct entry to the second year of the degree, or just do the standard route. I hadn’t really thought about going into second year as I assumed my qualifications weren’t good enough (because on paper they weren’t) but I did start to think about it after my tutor suggested it. Thinking about my reasoning, I didn’t want to go through the intense stress that is settling into a new town, trying to do 2 years of work in 1 year, and managing the rest of my life, but there was part of me that was like “no, if he thinks I can do 2nd year, I should” but the only reason deep down I wanted to do second year is because it would “look” more impressive, and I was worried people would think I was ordinary, mediocre and boring if I stuck with the standard route. I am the kind of person who will push myself to the absolute extreme just to defy other people’s expectations of me, and my expectations of myself, just because I’m terrified of being boring and ordinary. But alas, today I decided that I’m going to stick with the conventional route, and give myself a proper year to find my work(study)/life balance, which is something I’ve been notoriously bad at. I will probably perform better in the long run having taking a year to fully understand the mathematics (and actually being able to take the more advanced modules in 2nd year).

I would go on and rant a bit more but I’ve been out climbing most the day and damn I’m shattered.

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I’m feeling so much better now I’ve gotten over the raw emotions of results day. I’m chilling watching BBC proms on the tele at the moment and I’m now officially registered as a University of Edinburgh student!! I’m excited to start this blog properly properly now I’m actually on a confirmed place on a physics degree course. So I thought I’d just do a little brief on what kind of direction (I’m thinking) my blog is going to go.

1. General university blog - I’m going to hopefully write about my experience of freshers (oh sorry! I mean wElCoMe wEek) as someone who doesn’t drink. I’ve seen all the freshers events and they look so cool - I’m so up for the hike up Arthur’s Seat on the first day! And the LGBT society “speed friending” sesh haha. Veggie and vegan society’s walking vegan tour of Edinburgh! I’m actually so pumped and ready for this. I’ll also share some of the stuff I’m doing to prep before I actually get there.

2. Guides to studying for physics and the sciences in general - there are a lot of blogs out there that help with languages and stuff because they’re pretty aesthetic to look at but physics isn’t so much and I want to change that! I want to post advice on approaches to properly understand and learn science subjects to help other people.

3. Physics stuff. Nothing toooo hardcore but maybe the odd “this research has just been announced - what does it actually mean for actual hooomans” and that kind of stuff. I’m not entirely sure what kind of form that will take.

Also, I’m on The Student Room as well - my @ is HTSAPD (howtosurviveaphysicsdegree was too long so it’s just the initials oops so no one ever knows what my username is) so if you want to follow me on there then feel free :)

I hope everyone else is feeling better after results day <3

Any Edinburgh students or freshers please comment below so I can follow you or we can chat! Or just drop me a message straight away

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I move in in less than 3 days now!

Today I’ve started properly working on some maths in order to get my maths skills up to scratch just to hopefully make the transition a bit easier. I’ve been practising my calculus as well as a couple of things from my maths exam a few weeks ago that I got wrong (vectors!!). I’ve found out who my personal tutor is, who I seem to have a lot in common with in terms of research interest areas so that’s pretty damn cool. I’m so excited at the moment but I don’t have much interesting content to post as all I’ve done is pack books and practise maths questions which are too scribbly to post on here, and I don’t have a camera oops.

I’ll update properly during freshers week but I’ll probably make one more post before I go! :D

Good luck to all the other freshers’ starting in the next few weeks, particularly my Edinburgh fam!

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