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Class Update
Jun. 16th, 2008 08:12 pm1) This is a calculus-based class. I wrote my first integral sign in 14 years two weeks ago.
2) I will be spending the next week re-learning calculus integrals and derivations, so that I can pass my test next Wednesday. Basically, I'll be re-learning an entire years' worth of Calculus and figuring out half a year worth of Cal III (pre-req for the class that I managed to bypass) in said one week time, along with learning the actual math models that we are learning in class to solve physics problems.
3) The EE (electrical engineering) students in class are trying to figure out if this class is even worth it, because so far we keep going over various ways to derive the same equations that we all learned back in our basic physics classes. (read: this is easy as hell shit to the class geniuses, yo) Considering I was once a physics major, I should be just as jaded about the class, but my goals are different from theirs. I want this A so that I can graduate Cum Laude damn it, but I'm going to have to study a lot more than I thought I would due to Items #1 and #2 above.
4) Our classroom is being used by a bunch of over-achieving high school teens taking a summer AP Pre-Calculus class. I flipped through one of the Pre-Cal books lying around and recalled all the stuff that I learned ... oh ... 15 years ago, back in the day when I was an over-achieving AP math student myself.
5) A nice guy in my class has a PC Tablet he takes his notes on. I completely forgot about my class last Monday while watching Heroes Season 2 until it was already into the class time and given the 45min drive and parking time would have made me too late to bother going. Luckily, he was kind enough to email me his notes from the class that day.
5) In order to read his notes (see #4), I had to download a PC Tablet reader (Windows Journal Viewer). So if I ever do buy a PC Tablet I'm already set to transfer notes to my primary computer and still be able to read them.
6) Microsoft's Download Center, where I got the Windows Journal Viewer download, is about to get a face lift and you can try out the beta version for free.
7) The beta version of Microsoft's Download Center requires you to download Microsoft Silverlight. Because nothing on that web page actually tells you anything about WTF Silverlight really is and what it does, I finally resorted to the good ol' Wikipedia entry on Silverlight which basically says it's MS's very late response to Apple's QuickTime, although really I think they can both go fuck themselves while I stick to Macromedia/Shockwave Flash.
8) There's a house for sale on my route to and from school that looks like a mini fortress. It's probably way out of my price range, but it totally rocks from what little I can see of it. It definitely would hold up to a zombie apocalypse.
So, yeah. There's my school update.
2) I will be spending the next week re-learning calculus integrals and derivations, so that I can pass my test next Wednesday. Basically, I'll be re-learning an entire years' worth of Calculus and figuring out half a year worth of Cal III (pre-req for the class that I managed to bypass) in said one week time, along with learning the actual math models that we are learning in class to solve physics problems.
3) The EE (electrical engineering) students in class are trying to figure out if this class is even worth it, because so far we keep going over various ways to derive the same equations that we all learned back in our basic physics classes. (read: this is easy as hell shit to the class geniuses, yo) Considering I was once a physics major, I should be just as jaded about the class, but my goals are different from theirs. I want this A so that I can graduate Cum Laude damn it, but I'm going to have to study a lot more than I thought I would due to Items #1 and #2 above.
4) Our classroom is being used by a bunch of over-achieving high school teens taking a summer AP Pre-Calculus class. I flipped through one of the Pre-Cal books lying around and recalled all the stuff that I learned ... oh ... 15 years ago, back in the day when I was an over-achieving AP math student myself.
5) A nice guy in my class has a PC Tablet he takes his notes on. I completely forgot about my class last Monday while watching Heroes Season 2 until it was already into the class time and given the 45min drive and parking time would have made me too late to bother going. Luckily, he was kind enough to email me his notes from the class that day.
5) In order to read his notes (see #4), I had to download a PC Tablet reader (Windows Journal Viewer). So if I ever do buy a PC Tablet I'm already set to transfer notes to my primary computer and still be able to read them.
6) Microsoft's Download Center, where I got the Windows Journal Viewer download, is about to get a face lift and you can try out the beta version for free.
7) The beta version of Microsoft's Download Center requires you to download Microsoft Silverlight. Because nothing on that web page actually tells you anything about WTF Silverlight really is and what it does, I finally resorted to the good ol' Wikipedia entry on Silverlight which basically says it's MS's very late response to Apple's QuickTime, although really I think they can both go fuck themselves while I stick to Macromedia/Shockwave Flash.
8) There's a house for sale on my route to and from school that looks like a mini fortress. It's probably way out of my price range, but it totally rocks from what little I can see of it. It definitely would hold up to a zombie apocalypse.
So, yeah. There's my school update.
