College Algebra and Political Science It's the only class I still need to graduate... which kinda tells you what I think of math.
One of the reasons I chose my undergraduate university was it's lack of a math requirement. There was a Social Science, Humanities and Natural Science requirement. Math fell under Natural Science. After I graduated without taking a math class, I ended up in finance. When I went back to grad school, lo and behold, there was a little math required. I had to then hustle and take several accelerated math classes with the undergrads while I was taking clases where I had to learn the math along with learning the theory--pretty embarrassing.
I had a history class once where the entire grade was based on a single paper due at the end of the term. I didn't turn the paper in. I got a B. barfo
You go to Case Western, right? Or is it Carnegie Mellon? I get confused between the two. If you go to school in Cleveland, a buddy of mine just joined the faculty.
Ew. He was a he, and about 80 years old. No, it was just a stroke of luck on my part. I did nothing to deserve it. barfo
Cool. I only took intro chem classes a few years back that were req'd for my major. Took the rest of 'em in PDX over the summer, so I doubt I'd know him.
Man, that takes me back. Way back to junior high (now called middle school) where they had a PE teacher teaching the required science class. Our grade was also based on one paper, subject of our choice. I worked my butt off on a paper on history of surgery but only got a B because the teacher admitted it was over her head so she didn't read it. I loved college calculus - all of a sudden all the formulas that had been thrown at me in chemistry and physics made sense. But every damn test I'd make some silly error and get a 98. I swore one day I'd get a perfect 100 on a test. So one time I finally avoided every silly error, got a perfect score, but the prof had made an error and test test was only worth 99 points. So I still did not get my 100!
Oh...meth. I thought he meant moth and you were going to explain some Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera eradication methods...
I took my math departmental math final yesterday and that shit was so easy compared to his tests. 22 of the questions were multiple choice and the other three were open ended. I'm not sure about the open ended questions but I think I got all the multiple choice ones right. The three open ended questions where something like if $4800 dollars was deposited today how long would it take to grow to $28,000 if compounded continuously at 7%, what is the vertex of so and so numbers (I would have gotten this one right but I was out of time and forgot the put the first number back into the equation to get the second number, Do'h!), and the last one was crickets chirp at 140 per minute at 70 degrees and 168 per minute at 80 degrees, what is the temperature if they chirp at a rate of 150 per minute.
But it sounds like the limit as your number of tests taken approached infinity was 100, so it's pretty much the same thing, right?
