A look into my A1 experience

When Assignment 1 came around, I already found myself drowning in a pool of homework from my other courses, and on the other hand also deprived of homework from another course - that may sound nice but it doesn't help when you consider that you actually need to stay caught up when a quiz or test comes around. Either way, I decided to leave Assignment 1 until the very end, which was a terrible idea. The assignment was due on the 5th, and I also had another problem set due the same day... which I had only finished one part of. So I finished the problem set for the other course (which kept me up until 5am), then went to sleep, knowing I needed to get up in a few hours to commute back to school. 

Finally at school, barely staying awake and falling asleep in some classes, it was time for me to finish the rest of Assignment 1. I had finished some of the assignment before hand, but I had only finished the easier questions before tackling the hard ones. Upon reaching these hard questions I found myself lost. Luckily, the office hour for the assignment approached and I decided to attend it. I got to the office hour late since I had a class at the same time but I knew I needed to go. When I got there I was nervous, since I don't really like asking questions, so I just sat down and let the discussions go on. Whenever one discussion finished I thought that maybe it would be a good time to raise my hand and present a question, but I could never bring myself to do it... I was hesitant, intimidated, nervous.. Fortunately some of the questions I had in mind were covered. 

When the office hour was done I left and went over to the library to finish up my assignment. I was able to figure out the problems I had for the last two questions, but the one that bothered me the most was question 3. I had read over the first lecture slide and took the professor's hint with the partitioning of a set, but after the partition I was on my own. My first idea was adding the number of subsets in one partition to the number of subsets in the other partition (which I later realized was very close to the solution I came up with). No matter how much I tried the amounts did not add up properly. However, the office hour definitely gave me the help I needed. I had forgotten what a bijection was and when my professor used it in our first lecture, to put it simply I had no idea what he was doing. But I managed to figure it out and that proved to be a very helpful breakthrough for my question 3 proof. In the end, I pulled through and finished the assignment with only a couple of hours left (whether that's something to be proud I will not be sure).

I now know that I will only end up hurting myself if I keep on leaving my homework off like this. But, just because I know doesn't mean anything, I have to be ready to do something about it, which is something I still  am not sure about...