Provisional grades from my Data Science apprenticeship so far show that I am not only passing, but passing with a high mark on some of my submissions! The most recent of these, a portfolio combining learning, professional writing, reflection and programming, is something I am especially proud of. I can’t help but look back to the Read More
There Was a Time When I Was Good at Maths
When I turned 16 I dropped out of school. I’d hated the experience since I started secondary school at 11 years old and it had only gotten worse from then. Dropping out was a huge relief for me. I went to community college the next year to study for and take the GCSE exams that I Read More
Can I Get Enough Of Studying?
Last week was my latest contact week with the university, where we spend 3 hour sessions with the tutors going through tasks they’ve set out and asking questions. The week before that I took off as study time to work on my programming portfolio. This week, I went tutor hunting and have booked myself tutoring sessions Read More
It’s Dangerous To Go (Into Maths) Alone! Take This (Tutor)
That’s a reference from the first Legend of Zelda video game, for you non-gamers out there. This morning I woke up early and finally took the step I’ve needed to take for a while; hiring a maths tutor. I’ve been scraping by in the Data Science degree, but there are some particular areas that I’m not Read More
Progress in Data Science degree
As the end of my first year on the Data Science degree apprenticeship approaches, I’m realising how far I have come. I mean, before I started this degree, I thought that machine learning was like a really smart macro recorder! This week I’ve had some time with my tutors and they’ve been giving us quizzes that Read More
A Level Maths, Properly
So one of the things that I am now sure causes me a lot of trouble in maths are the missing foundational understanding I have in it. I’ve been fighting against it for a long time, because I can manage some of the advanced stuff with little problem, but that is only getting me so far. Read More
Maths is very hard!
See title. That’s basically it, mathematics is very hard, calculus, linear algebra, and now I need to learn how to solve differential equations. I believe I can get it eventually, but I’m not sure I can get it soon enough for the exams in August… but I can sure as hell try. Anyway, that’s the whole Read More
Second Chance At Higher Learning
Yesterday was the first meeting between myself, the university and my workplace, to assess how the apprenticeship is going and plan actions going forwards. I was quite anxious about it, for one because I hadn’t been documenting the study leave I’d taken as part of the apprenticeship and rushed to get it all down the evening Read More
We’ve Done It Boys And Girls!
Did I post about my actual portfolio submission yet? No I did not! So here it is, a whole day late. Yesterday was the deadline for my first portfolio submission on my Data Science apprenticeship and I’m glad to say that I got everything submitted the night before, so I had the whole morning to panic Read More
My First Portfolio Submission
I’ve just finished the last piece for my portfolio submission, with the deadline being tomorrow noon. That may seem like I’ve left it quite late, and I have, but in my defense I had been fighting against an incredibly strong level of demotivation beforehand. I’d gotten myself to a point where I really wasn’t sure that Read More