Update: Semester 4
Well, I suppose I should update this thing. I'm bored, and I don't feel like doing my homework, and since I haven't written anything in here in a while, this feels like a great way to use some time.
For starters, I don't think I've written yet this semester, but I am back in Mansfield. My semester started out great (cough cough), because I had to leave home early to work on my first night back until midnight. Then I had Analog Electronics the next morning at eight thirty, and I figured that it would be a pretty cool class. Unfortunately, I figured wrong. My professor, while extremely intelligent, is completely lacking in two major areas. One, he does not seem to live in the same reality that the rest of us reside in. For example, last week he asked us to take a quiz on material that was not covered in class (because we have yet to cover any material in class, which would not have been so bad if the material had been in the book. However, I have been reading the book (because, like I said, he's not really teaching us anything), and none of the information was there, either. The other area he's lacking in is understandability. We have already had two homework assignments due, and though I have yet to turn in the second one because I do not know how to do it, I finished the first one. However, I had to go to his office for help on the first homework assignment, and not only did he not seem to understand that I was confused, he simply took one look at the problem and said, "It's as easy as this." Then he plopped an answer down, and I really had to spend a bit more time looking at what he had done before I really understood what was going on. His understandability isn't helped by the fact that he has a very thick accent. Now I have to go to his office again to ask him about the second assignment, which was due on Thursday, but I didn't have time to start it until Wednesday and he hasn't had office hours that I could attend since.
My other classes are mostly better. With the exception of Linear Algebra, which is moving extremely slow and is very boring, I am having a good time in my classes. I really like Modern Physics because right now we're working with special relativity, which is awesome. Basically, as things approach the speed of light, which is a constant no matter what inertial reference frame it is in, time dilates and distances shrink. Topology is pretty cool, too, because we've been spending our time with proofs for the past few weeks and we should be moving into topological spaces soon. Differential Equations is a great class, too. Uncle Phil (our professor) is a funny guy, and he moves at a great pace. I love the class because on the first day, he handed us our syllabi, then said, "That's the bureaucratic nonsense. Let's get started." Then we moved right into the material. I love it.
Otherwise, I had a few other setbacks this semester as well. My friend Tara, left Mansfield for a different school this semester. I was getting really good at ping pong because of her, and now I have no one to play pong with at twelve thirty at night when I can't sleep. I've had a few other minor things here and there that have left me feeling pretty alone at times, too.
The good news, though, is that I am really getting into Math Club this semester, and we already had one great Math Club party that I had a really good time at. Also, I have made a few other friends lately that have been around to hang with now. I've got a long time before I can come home again, though, and I'm really hoping this semester gets a little better. Work is boring, but because I'm working four nights a week till twelve thirty and getting up at seven five days a week, I'm exhausted most of the time. Still, the money is nice and I really need it right now.
Oh well. I've said all I can think to say. I'll update again when I think about it.
Later,
Joshua
For starters, I don't think I've written yet this semester, but I am back in Mansfield. My semester started out great (cough cough), because I had to leave home early to work on my first night back until midnight. Then I had Analog Electronics the next morning at eight thirty, and I figured that it would be a pretty cool class. Unfortunately, I figured wrong. My professor, while extremely intelligent, is completely lacking in two major areas. One, he does not seem to live in the same reality that the rest of us reside in. For example, last week he asked us to take a quiz on material that was not covered in class (because we have yet to cover any material in class, which would not have been so bad if the material had been in the book. However, I have been reading the book (because, like I said, he's not really teaching us anything), and none of the information was there, either. The other area he's lacking in is understandability. We have already had two homework assignments due, and though I have yet to turn in the second one because I do not know how to do it, I finished the first one. However, I had to go to his office for help on the first homework assignment, and not only did he not seem to understand that I was confused, he simply took one look at the problem and said, "It's as easy as this." Then he plopped an answer down, and I really had to spend a bit more time looking at what he had done before I really understood what was going on. His understandability isn't helped by the fact that he has a very thick accent. Now I have to go to his office again to ask him about the second assignment, which was due on Thursday, but I didn't have time to start it until Wednesday and he hasn't had office hours that I could attend since.
My other classes are mostly better. With the exception of Linear Algebra, which is moving extremely slow and is very boring, I am having a good time in my classes. I really like Modern Physics because right now we're working with special relativity, which is awesome. Basically, as things approach the speed of light, which is a constant no matter what inertial reference frame it is in, time dilates and distances shrink. Topology is pretty cool, too, because we've been spending our time with proofs for the past few weeks and we should be moving into topological spaces soon. Differential Equations is a great class, too. Uncle Phil (our professor) is a funny guy, and he moves at a great pace. I love the class because on the first day, he handed us our syllabi, then said, "That's the bureaucratic nonsense. Let's get started." Then we moved right into the material. I love it.
Otherwise, I had a few other setbacks this semester as well. My friend Tara, left Mansfield for a different school this semester. I was getting really good at ping pong because of her, and now I have no one to play pong with at twelve thirty at night when I can't sleep. I've had a few other minor things here and there that have left me feeling pretty alone at times, too.
The good news, though, is that I am really getting into Math Club this semester, and we already had one great Math Club party that I had a really good time at. Also, I have made a few other friends lately that have been around to hang with now. I've got a long time before I can come home again, though, and I'm really hoping this semester gets a little better. Work is boring, but because I'm working four nights a week till twelve thirty and getting up at seven five days a week, I'm exhausted most of the time. Still, the money is nice and I really need it right now.
Oh well. I've said all I can think to say. I'll update again when I think about it.
Later,
Joshua
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