Unusually for me I decided to spend today working from home. It’s unusual as even if I have a day where I’m not with a customer or prospective customer, I’d normally much rather be in my office than working from home. It’s not that I’m necessarily more productive in the office, but I find myself having those strange conversations that you can only really have in the office that lead to all kinds of interesting outcomes.
However, today I needed to be really productive as I’m presenting at a conference on Thursday morning and other than a title and synopsis, I had no material. (It’s Seminar 4 on the list if you’re interested.) Fortunately, it’s been a productive day, so if you were thinking about coming along to hear me speak I guarantee it won’t be 45 minutes of silence!
My decision meant I was at home when the DD307 course materials arrived in the early afternoon. StudentHome is still suggesting they won’t be despatched until Friday, so it was a nice surprise to receive them.
The package contained two textbooks, a project booklet, a course guide, two DVDs and sundry other bits and pieces. As the course doesn’t officially start until 29th January, there will be plenty of time to have a look through it all and figure out a strategy.
Starting early usually makes sense for me – and if I can get to the point of have written a draft of the first TMA by the formal start date I’ll be very happy, as that would put me 4 weeks ahead of the course timeline. Their early arrival means that taking SD226 at the same time looks more possible, but I will only even think about doing both together if I have managed a distinction on DD303, which feels pretty unlikely as I reflect back on my exam performance.
Even though DD307 is avowedly non-mathematical (statistics – pah!), I note with interest that the course timetable starts on week 0 again. I thought it was only computer scientists like me that started to count from 0 (and of course, the owners of Cardiff railway station). I’m obviously cut out for critical social psychology after all …