Today's weather: High = 12 Low = 3
The rain cleared from the weekend, and we've now been enjoying crisp clear weather this week. This is a sign we're entering the dry and cold season, which parallels the dry season in SE Asia. On this note, the flood situation in Thailand which I've been following closely is slowly being alleviated as the monsoon is basically over now.
It would be nice if a vacation were to happen right now, but it's still at least 50 days away until the winter break. Ouch! Unfortunately, more bad news has happened in that one of our teachers will now be out of commission for 6+ weeks due to major back surgery. As a result, the regular staff are doing internal coverage to act as subs. They are compensating us healthily for this, but it's going to be a major bitch of a workload for the next 3 weeks until my masters course has finally run its course on Dec 12.
Speaking of which, the first course 'software' ended well in October with a nice 94% mark to cap off the final project. The current course I'm doing now is 'mathematical proofs' and to quote a colleague from Sino Canada (another school down the road) who's also doing this, the course is an "absolute nightmare" and "it's hell". He is correct. The intimidating language and nature of proofs is one of the things about math that I wish didn't exist, but it does, and we have to deal with it.
My goal is simple for this course: survival. The pass rate is 70% and I'm barely floating above that now, having been killed on the latest written assignment.
Once the hell of proofs is over with, then things will gradually ease off as we approach the winter break. I've already got plane tickets booked ages ago and am now figuring out trip logistics in more details. Stay tuned to that on the crazyguyonabike.com site, as this winter break trip is gonna be off the hook!
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