One Term in 5 Minutes

Hi, I'm Matt. I'm a second year undergraduate studying maths in St. Peter's in Oxford. I've been asked by the Math Club to make a few videos to kind of talk about how the term is going to see what it's like to be a maths undergraduate. So currently as of recording, I'm in the zeroth week which is the week before term starts. So I've got exams tomorrow called collections which kind of just measure how you're doing. I'm trying not to stress about them because I like don't want to ruin my holiday. I want to relax. I might have ruined holidays. I ruined my holidays last year just like stressing about them. It's not worth it. So I'm looking forward to next term. I'm doing topology which is like coffee cups and doughnuts. I'm doing integration which is about how you ascribe length to sets. It sounds really fun. But apart from all this, there is still COVID which is just awful. Just not fun. Everything sucks about it as I'm sure everybody knows. It's not new to anyone. So there's no in-person teats which is ultimately not the end of the world but it's still harder to focus and concentrate when you don't really have time. Hello, it's Matt from St Peter's. Coming at you again to chat about how my term's going. I'm a second year maths student at St Peter's. So second week currently. Collections are done. I'm just trying to like leave them in the past. They went okay and what can you do. So I'm currently like on the problem sheet grind. I spend a day watching lectures. I spend a day doing a problem sheet and writing that which is pretty fun because I enjoy doing maths. I enjoy solving which is just what problem sheets are and also the lectures are enjoyable because the stuff is quite fun. But then there's also like you know lots of dull bits of that like writing out the sheets which I don't particularly enjoy. So also because the second week tutorials have started so I've had a rings and modules tutorial which was enjoyable. An integration tutorial which was very fun because me and my two partner had done one on the sheets. We just chatted about things about integration which is usually quite fun. I've got one about fluids today. So apart from that I'm just trying trying to stay sane. Hello it's Matthew back again. It's fourth week here in Oxford. I'm telling you how it's going. I'm sun mustached this time. Very sad very sad to see it go. So yeah fourth week that means I'm so I'm in second year. So fourth week of Hillary term is halfway through the first three years of my undergraduate course. It's halfway through this whole year which means I'm halfway to exams now which is a bit worrisome because I've never had proper exams because of Covid and also it's a strange feeling thinking that you know the majority of my degree now has been you know under Covid with regulations and with online tutes which which sucks a bit because it feels like it's going both you know too quickly even though it all feels very slow. So last week I had an absolutely crazy crazy week. I had four sheets to do in which has meant that I've been relaxing this week and also you know a nice thing I had a digital party with my mates last Saturday for my birthday which was lovely. All right so see you next time guys. Hello it's Matt from St Peter's back again with another video. Report from the trenches telling you how it's going. I'm very very tired. It's sixth week as I said. I'm just so exhausted. No I'm not exhausted. I just have about enough energy to make it through to the end of Sam but gosh it is super tiring. I'm just about surviving. Not much has occurred since I last talked to you. It's just been more problem sheets, more tutorials which you know I enjoy so it's not that bad but there is a lot of work. Since I last talked to you there's been our fifth week which is home to Oxford's famous fifth week blues which is where everybody across the university suddenly feels really tired and low about the prospects of term because you've gotten halfway through but then you realise that halfway through means that you've got to do everything you've done again which is really demotivating sometimes but you know we all make it through. All right see you guys. Hello it's Matthew again. It's ninth week here. This video was scheduled for eighth week but eighth week is the last week of term. I finished all my work in eighth week and I just you know hibernated for about a week. I've just been relaxing, sleeping. It's been very good. I've got exams at the end of next term at the end of Trinity and so there's a small part of me which says you know you need to be writing now and then there's a larger part of me which is telling that smaller part to shut up because I really like to relax. So this term it's been pretty good. Course-wise highlight was topology. Very enjoyable. Yeah some highlights of that were generalised sequences which are sequences except more general and the long line which is like the real line except longer which really blew my mind. That was really fun. So that was a really fun course otherwise I'd just like to say you know this has been really fun. I've really enjoyed doing this. I'm running out of time now but I hope you guys have a nice holiday and a nice rest of your life if I don't seem right. See you guys.