It seems I update in exponential time!

Unfortunately, time has been eluding me lately, and this has been reflected in my posting habits. Your forgiveness, please.

With assignment 1 and our first test behind me, I've come to realize that I am gaining a lot of useful knowledge from this course. I couldn't count how many times in the past I've ignored "If and only if" or "Necessary/Sufficient" while learning math. I always preferred rushing through/skimming over/completely ignoring proofs and derivations to start solving concrete, algebraic problems while remaining oblivious to the arcane subtleties which were being presented to me.

However, it seems this knowledge comes with a price; will this course send my GPA to the land of wind and ghosts?

In every other course I've taken, when I have the feeling that I am learning a lot, it is usually accompanied by 4.0 caliber marks. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, as I haven't even seen the marks for assignment 1 or test 1 yet, but I just have this bad feeling. For example, I am not confident at all about question 5 from assignment 1. I mean, I tried my best, and I think I expressed it fairly well in symbols, but when I looked at the sample solution, I was all like, "WTF, did we even cover this stuff in class?

< Emo>Does anyone else feel this way? Am I alone?< /Emo>

Of course, my brave samurai spirit is not shaken, and I am boldly awaiting more material on Proofs.(They seem to be a little easier anyway ^^)