{"id":3220,"date":"2011-07-21T22:03:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T04:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2011-07-21T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T04:03:20","slug":"differential-equations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"Differential Equations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took my Differential Equations final today, and with any luck I’ve got a B for the course.<\/p>\n

I say with any luck, because I may have gotten a C. I suppose that if my 4.0 needs to end, that Differential Equations is an appropriately difficult class to deliver the crushing blow. Not that I actually have a 4.0. I only have a 4.0 at UCCS as long as I conveniently ignore the 2.3 I had at UD.<\/p>\n

I thought there was a vague chance that I would turn out to be good at math. This summer has taught me otherwise. It’s a good thing I wasn’t planning on being a mathematician.<\/p>\n

The class was extraordinarily challenging for me. I found that at different times it seemed to require just about every mathematical trick I had learned up to this point. The biggest problem is that because it was a summer class where one week of material in a normal semester is covered in one day (3 days\/week) that it was impossible for me to practice enough to get proficient with it. I think it might have been possible to get an A were I not taking two other classes at the same time.<\/p>\n

I suspect that even passing differential equations makes me better at math than 99% of the population, yet compared to anyone who is good at it, I’m laughably bad. If you just want an idea of what a differential equations test looks like, here’s our midterm<\/a>. (That’s the solutions as worked out by the professor.) The worst part about that exam was having us solve a single problem 3 different ways. I got 3 different answers, but didn’t have time to figure out where I’d made a mistake.<\/p>\n

My Linear Algebra final is on Monday. I’m dreading it, because I need an A on the final to get an A in the class. I’m not sure if I’ll manage it or not.<\/p>\n

My third class, Computer Networks, is the only one I’m really enjoying. I wish I had more time to spend with it, but the subject is interesting, our textbook is really good, and the professor is doing a good job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took my Differential Equations final today, and with any luck I’ve got a B for the course. I say with any luck, because I may have gotten a C. I suppose that if my 4.0 needs to end, that Differential Equations is an appropriately difficult class to deliver the crushing blow. Not that I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonclassified-nonsense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}