Good morning everyone. So today is Monday the 17th of January so it's the first Monday of week one at
Oxford, Hilary term, so I thought today that I would bring you to my day as a first-year
mathematician. Last term nearly all of our lectures were pre-recorded so we spent a lot of time in our
room.We didn't really go to the Maths Institute that much, so yeah, I'm really excited. I'm going to
meet a friend at 8 30. Today we have an Analysis 2 lecture at 9, from 9 to 10, and then we have
Linear Algebra 2 between 10 to 11. So yeah let's get going. Please don't judge the thing
behind me. The tutors have already laughed at me. My friends have already laughed at me. Yeah,
I have lots of food, on the shelf behind me, the bookshelf yeah, the one that's meant to be books
Especially lots of milks at the top. So, yeah, I hope you enjoy spending the day with me and let's go. Try not to be late on the first day.
I thought that I would show you this sign because Lewis Carroll went to my old school and he also went to Christ Church (college) which is where I am now. and one thing
that I appreciate about the first year lectures is the consistency, so every morning from Monday to
Friday we have lectures between 9am and 11am and they're always in the same place which is L1 (lecture theatre)
So today we started with a one-hour Analysis lecture
which was our first lecture of Analysis 2. So Analysis 1 looked at more sequences
and series whereas Analysis 2 looked at continuity and differentiability,
so we basically started with some recap from Analysis 1 before moving on to some new ideas.
Are you like a robot? Why is your writing so neat?
What do you feel about lectures?
Yeah, we just had one of our lectures it was really good
"Yeah the lecturer was very enthusiastic". "Really good at explaining stuff."
Our second of two lectures was on linear algebra so Monday was a really 'Pure' day
where we basically met the determinant for the first time since Further Maths. We hadn't really
covered it at all in Linear Algebra 1. It was really interesting because it was explained in a
lot more of a rigorous way in comparison to A- level where a lot of it was memorising methods
plus you know that it's rigorous when the lecturer says with
20 minutes left to go until the end: "Oh we'll start this proof, we won't have time to finish it."
after lectures a few of us went to a cafe near Christ Church where I got a matcha latte
"What did you get?" "It's a mocha with soya milk." "Gonna say hi guys?""
So I am back. It is currently 12 50. I've also had lunch and...in-person lectures were good I
really enjoyed them and the lecturers were really... it just feels different to have them
in person. You could just feel like the lecturer's enthusiasm and energy and it just felt like more
interactive because the lecturer could be like you agree and then you could like nod - I don't know
So I'm now going to do like a few hours work. I have the afternoon free which is lucky because I
have some linear algebra sheets due Wednesday so it's actually like quite a way away, but
I want to like get ahead of my work this term. My New Year's resolution is to actually study
so I'm going to try and get the sheets done. I'll be really pleased if I can get them done
by the end of today. We'll see how that goes. So the lecture we had this morning was Linear Algebra 2
and the sheets that I have due on Wednesday are Linear Algebra 1 which are from last
term, so I guess the getting ahead of work is not going that well, but yeah, so I'm going to try and
do those. But the in-person lectures I felt like were a lot easier to engage with because online
you know sometimes you're midway through and you speed it up to like 1.5 and then towards
the end you speed it up to two times speed and then you switch it off altogether and go and get
coffee or like go for a walk, so the in-person, like you're there, you're there for an hour, you have a
break in the middle and you have another hour on a different topic and yeah I just thought it was
really nice and I plan to go every morning at 9am. So yeah, time for some Linear Algebra 1
So I'm now going out for dinner with my college dad (support network) and he's actually a math student as well in
second year. I've just been doing problem sheets all afternoon. I also quickly went to the gym
I was doing Linear Algebra 1 which you think is easier than Linear Algebra 2 but because
we're still on early stages of Linear Algebra 2, and I'm doing like the very last parts of
Linear Algebra 1, it's very challenging. It's about like change of bases. Well it's hard for
me. I don't know if it's hard. I also got my collection (college exams) mark back. Well my first one. So
it was the probability part of the applied paper because we had a different tutor marking that part
so I'll let you guys find out in one of my videos how I did, so I will leave that as a cliffhanger
but yeah I'm going to go, I'm so hungry. I feel like I really want something like
deep fried and like oily and greasy, you know, so hopefully we can go somewhere that serves that
after Wendy's - so I did get my fried food - I spent a couple of hours in the Christ Church library
just finishing off a problem sheet from earlier. This term I've really been getting into studying
in libraries so far. I find that I'm a lot more productive and another study space
that I've been liking is the Maths Institute and we cannot wait for Cafe Pi (Oxford Maths Cafe) to open again
I hope you enjoyed seeing my first day of lectures
hopefully the first of many and I'll see you guys very soon. Stay tuned for more. Bye
you