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A few months ago, I was contemplating if I had made the right choice in terms of uni and courses. I had been an ambitious student who used to only worry about going after the best, toughest universities and the most challenging degrees. Well, I guess I did managed that, but it’s really not an experience to cherish.
Never did I expect uni life to be so demanding and competitive. The environment is stressful. The challenges are endless and failure is a reality I might have to face. Being in the “comfort zone” for so long, I seem to have trouble adjusting to the harsh realities of life. I doubt my capabilities, I lose my confidence and self-esteem. I fall into depression, resurface feeling bad about myself. I get higly-emotional over every little thing due to the psychological distress I suffer.
Like my lecturer said, we can no longer continue with our “shooting for the stars” mindset as uni life is not all blissful, particularly so when you’re in a demanding course. Well, the root of my problems is that I lack spatial intelligence, an important ingredient to succeed in programming. I can reason, but I can’t form logical structures as required in computing.
My world is falling apart and I’m trying my best to rebuild the fallen parts. It is difficult, I know, but without an optimistic view of everything, I can’t succeed. The essence to being a good uni student is to maintain a positive outlook to every single challenges. I might be in the wrong course (some might say), but I never give up. I believe in my choices and shall perservere over all future challenges.

Do you know?
The Fibonacci sequence originally arose in a puzzle about rabbits. After returning from the Orient in 1202, Fibonacci wrote his most famous work, Liber Abaci, which in addition to containing what we now call the Fibonacci sequence advocated the use of Hindu-Arabic numerals. This book was one of the main influences in bringing the decimal number system to Western Europe. Fibonacci signed much of his work “Leonardo Bigollo”. Bigollo translates as “traveler” or “blockhead”. Tere is some evidence that Fibonacci enjoyed having his contemporaries consider him a blockhead for advocating the new number system.
The Fibonacci sequence pops up in unexpected places. For example, the number of clockwise spirals and the number of counterclockwise spirals formed by the seeds of certain varieties of sunflowers are found in the Fibonacci sequence.

An interesting piece found in “Discrete Mathematics Fourth Edition” by Richard Johnsonbaugh

A quote from a once-famous person (cough, cough…)
[B]“I pay four times as much to get into uni and look! No chicks……I rest my case”[/B]
[I]Excerpt from “The Book of Famous Quotes Volume IXXIVI” by Rehpotsirhc Auhc (German)[/I]