Thursday, December 6, 2012

December 6, 2012

There are many people in life who don't believe in luck at all, that everything is simply coincidence, but I'll take whatever luck I can get any day of the week. At the beginning of this semester, I've been less than attentive to my classes, but it gave me the chance to make a move on Marissa and that worked out great. We'll get back to that story later.

Anyway, at the beginning of this semester, I had 25 credits and eight classes. Differential Equations with Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Real Analysis, Intermediate Microeconomics, Intro to Applied Mathematics, Bayesian Statistics and Topology. In Bayesian statistics our teacher decided that he was going to have us help him with a research paper that he was writing. Since there isn't a research program here this was a great opportunity to expand a professional resume and I promptly withdrew from topology, a class which I was taking for fun, as contrary as that may sound.

As finals come near I have about two or three for each class. It's complicated and annoying to try to find when each one is required to be taken at the testing center, which in itself is a God-forsaken place. It's as if one were trying to concentrate when the only thought that is going through my head is the fact that there are about twenty cameras staring at you, and the random proctors who sneak up behind you during the test aren't enough you have twenty pages of statistics to figure out before the testing center closes because of devotional. Though I didn't have that problem too much today, I had an interesting time calming my nerves during a Real Analysis exam. Luckily, and this is why I'm writing about being lucky, my teacher accidently gave us the exam instead of the study guide earlier this week. He later found out and tried to update the course information, but many of us already had it and had memorized it. The exam, which was four pages long and full of questions, took me thirty minutes, a personal best excluding Economics exams. I was lucky today. Let's hope tomorrow is just as good. 

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