If I have learned anything from "Desparate Housewives" and Bill Clinton, it's that the key to a happy marriage is successfully keeping secrets.
Bibliophile Warning : red
So, during our class break tonight, I dropped by the school library, and they were selling books at only a dollar a pound. That's too good to pass up, I mean, what if there was a treasure map in one of the books. And really, isn't knowledge treasure ??
So I got books. Here's what I got, and the silly reason why:
"Eight Lectures on Mathematical Analysis" by A. Ya. Khinchin. Because I heart math. I know. I should do the homework, not just think about how cool math is.
A history of Geology (from 1952) and biography of Madame Curie by her daughter. Because I like the history of science, these books are both for laymen, and probably dated in their views.
"the Way Things Work" a classic for explaining, I got the 1967 version. I had no idea the series was this old. But if I ever need to know how the Hollerith Punched-Card System works.
"Pawn Power in Chess" I heart chess too.
"Civilization & its discontents" Sigmund Freud. I shall assume a classic. Also, it's short.
"Yanomamo: the Fierce People" Napoleon Chagnon. I friend took a course from him, and enjoyed it. A (short) anthropology classic, a look a tribe from the Amazon.
So a stack of books for cheap, that I probably won't ever get around to reading. But I intend to, someday.
But, you can't tell my better half, because I always mock her for bringing home a bag of books from library book sales, when she hasn't read half of the previous sale's purchases. (Except for the books she picks up for me, those are cool and much appreciated.)
exam 2 didn't go quite as well as exam 1.
I think I'm dumb
seriously...if I had any intelligence, I would either
1) know calculus
or
2) not take calculus
or
3) study enough to know calculus
Ich weisse Calculus, aber ich moechte Calculus kennen.
I suppose the consolation is from David Hilbert "That I have been able to accomplish anything in mathematics is really due to the fact that I have always found it so difficult"
The Honors Class
"...I don't get an answer, except 011 01 1 01..."
Don't you hate it when, you are on your lunch break, you sit down by the lake, you are about to study some math...
...and a bird poops on your head. Now my homework, literally is crappy.
:-jon
so, once upon a time I had a cook's help. Actually, quite a few. I needed alot of help.
Anyway, every now & then I get updates on what they are doing. And I am proud of their successes, I feel a tiny bit of pride, knowing that the skills they learned by cleaning a grill for me, they transfered to life skills. "...wax on, wax off...."
typo warning : RED
She is getting a master's degree from Georgetown. And if you are so inclined, here is her thesis.
It's about "the Daily Show." What happens when the news is presented in an amusing format? Does John Stewart have an agenda?
Please fee free to read.... I have not yet read the entire 151 pages....
:-jon
I failed.
seriously.
I got 45 points out of 80, which puts me one percentage point below the D- threshold.
On the plus side I know more math now than I ever have. I also was hoping for 50%, so I got that. And the problems I did, I usually got right. I just ran out of time for a couple of problems.
Must study more.