Thouhgts on School this Semester
Jan. 21st, 2005 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesEasy course load -- I'm only in three courses, plus I have thesis work.
Intro to Complex Variables looks interesting enough, but we just finsihed the review portion. I'm told it's an easy course, and have nothing to contradict this. The prfoessor seems really interested in making sure our proofs improve, which is good.
Intro to Modern Algreba so far is rehashing material I did in 310. Thank God, as 310 was a course that reduced me to tears on more than one occassion, and I don't want to move past the rehash that quickly. The professor has these mannerisms that remind me of a kindergarten teacher more than a mathematician -- mostly her tone of voice. She seems like a good sort -- she told us a story today about an administrator who fancied himself a comedian, so he Googled up a list of math jokes and asked the math students to tell her which were funny before his speech to a math conference being held at his university. To this day, he doesn't get why the audience burst out laughing at: "Assume epsilon is less than 0..."
Galactic Astrophysics is mired in review, because Dr. Leung is trying to cover everythign he thinks a grad student should know about astronomy, because they probably won't get taught it. Problem is, this is the stuff professors tell you offhand when you ask, so each of us knows about half of it -- different halves. Dr. Leung also likes to crack jokes that, since half the class is late to lecture, he ought to start teahcing the important things in the first 10 minutes.
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invoking_urania
Intro to Complex Variables looks interesting enough, but we just finsihed the review portion. I'm told it's an easy course, and have nothing to contradict this. The prfoessor seems really interested in making sure our proofs improve, which is good.
Intro to Modern Algreba so far is rehashing material I did in 310. Thank God, as 310 was a course that reduced me to tears on more than one occassion, and I don't want to move past the rehash that quickly. The professor has these mannerisms that remind me of a kindergarten teacher more than a mathematician -- mostly her tone of voice. She seems like a good sort -- she told us a story today about an administrator who fancied himself a comedian, so he Googled up a list of math jokes and asked the math students to tell her which were funny before his speech to a math conference being held at his university. To this day, he doesn't get why the audience burst out laughing at: "Assume epsilon is less than 0..."
Galactic Astrophysics is mired in review, because Dr. Leung is trying to cover everythign he thinks a grad student should know about astronomy, because they probably won't get taught it. Problem is, this is the stuff professors tell you offhand when you ask, so each of us knows about half of it -- different halves. Dr. Leung also likes to crack jokes that, since half the class is late to lecture, he ought to start teahcing the important things in the first 10 minutes.
New journal for writing/artwork.:
invoking_urania
