Posts Tagged ‘math’

Phew!! I just saw that my final assignments for this term have been graded and everything passed! I had two papers for a math class I was a little worried about (one of them came back needing revisions last week), but I got perfect scores on both. Then the last task of my communications class was a videotaped presentation. It was so silly because it’s a camcorder and Matt, not a room full of strangers, but I was so nervous! I messed up quite a bit and anyone could tell I was really nervous, but I got a perfect score on that, too! Sometimes my graders are unreasonable, and sometimes they are so easy. So the first term of my degree to become a math teacher is complete! Now term 2 starts up the 1st of December …

It always goes this way — I’m never loyal to my journals. I’m just so lazy.

I’m sitting in the school parking lot, wiping sour cream off my Taco Bell order, and waiting for my computer science class to start. School is going pretty well. Next week I have my first exams in math and physics. Physics is pretty tough, but Mr. Jorstad says it gets much easier from here. Math is extremely boring. I took this class (particularly) with spastic Mr. King before dropping last semester. Now Dr. Mesri very slowly over explains everything. It’s better than being too difficult, I guess. My programming class is just an introduction to C and it’s not too tough. some of my days are long (M/W: 9a-7p; T: 830a-3p; R: 830a-930p), but I never have classes on Fridays.

I met a girl at work named Danielle who recently moved to Lompoc (the same street as us.) We’re going to the gym together Mondays-Thursdays before class/work. She picks me up at 4:40 and we do weight training or spinning until Matt picks me up on his way to work. Danielle used to be a Marine and loves to work out, so she is the perfect motivator. This is only our second week into it, but I feel fantastic all day long! I’m very sore and hopefully soon I’ll start toning up. I’ve put on entirely too much weight over the past year.

We also started going back to church after about three months. We were going to a small group at Jim’s on Thursday nights, studying Acts, but we hadn’t been able to attend since school started up. He found a group for us on Friday nights at Wayne & Rena’s, studying marriage. They live right across the street from us and are so great! All of the other four couples in the group have children older than us, so it is interesting to hear about their experiences.

Last weekend Answers in Genesis, a group that teaches creation backed by science, came to Calvary for a two-day conference. We took in a few lectures about apologetics, astronomy, and our foundations. Matt had heard Ken Ham, the founder of AiG, speak many years ago. He believes in intelligent design, a six day creation, that we are the center of the universe, that there was a worldwide flood, and that dinosaurs lived at the same time as man, to name a few. Some of it still sounds pretty out there to me, but some of their evidence was pretty convincing. And science aside, there’s a lot said in the Bible that I never knew about. We picked up some DVDs and a book to research these ideas further.

Andrea sent me a really cute new journal the other day, which I suppose inspired me to pick up the pen again. I’m not letting myself start new journals without finishing the old ones anymore.

Last month we decided what we’re going to do when Matt leaves the Air Force. The plan was: I’d move out to Colorado over Christmas ’07 and go to CSU in the spring. At the beginning of March he’d follow and find a job around Fort Collins. I have two years left in my physics degree and we would try to buy a house. The last time I went to work I learned that many people in my shop will be leaving, another squadron is moving out with us, many full-time positions will be opening up, and they want to promote at least one SrA. The full-time job will be a GS-11 position and we’re getting new equipment that someone needs to learn and teach to everyone else. It’s extremely tempting to stick around for another two years after signing on full-time

Wow, it's been a while. Well here's the scoop … Matt's parent's were out last weekend from New York. They flew in to San Diego to hang out with Matt's uncle for a day then took the train up to meet us in Santa Barbara Friday night. We went out for Hawaiian BBQ at L&L for dinner then headed home. We pretty much just sat up and chatted before crashing. Saturday we split up: Matt and Dad went golfing while Mom and I toured around Solvang. She and I had lunch at the Solvang Restaurant, of course (I had to introduce her to the delicious Aebleskiver!) We stopped by my favorite local yarn shop, hung out in a windmill, and took plenty of photos (on her camera … they'll be posted as soon as I receive them.) Saturday evening I cooked my "famous" chicken parmesan and we played Star Wars monopoly. Sunday morning was church. It's about time we attended. A mixture of my TDY, Matt's wacky weekend work schedules, and super-laziness have kept us away from church for months. Although we can still only attend every other Sunday, it's still very nice to be back. After church made the winding drive out to Jalama Beach to bottle some sand, wade in the frigid water, have a terrific hamburger lunch, and pick up a really cute coconut windchime. We made sloppy joe turnovers again to enjoy over a game of Mad Gab. Over the weekend we watched a few movies (our #1 must-share, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, provided us with much shrieking laughter) and spent a lot of time just relaxing and chatting. Matt and Jason both had to go to work early Monday morning, but we stopped by Matt's work for a picnic lunch before heading down to Santa Barbara. I dropped them off after getting lost around the town so they could enjoy a few days of 25th anniversary celebration. It was a great visit! Other than that … nothing else terribly interesting has happened. Matt's on his Panama schedule now, so he works all of this week (but had Wednesday-Thursday as a "weekend"), but has all of next week (minus Wednesday-Thursday) to hang out at home. It's a little wacky, but once we get used to it I think we're really going to like this new schedule. Matt's computer has been on the fritz lately. We've taken it in to get checked out twice now and they can't find anything wrong with it. It reboots after 5-10 minutes consistently when it's at home. Gaming is impossible. Whenever it tries to boot, there's a very high chance it won't POST and will just beep every three seconds. Of course, Best Buy can't reproduce this and has run through all their stress tests and it's been behaving excellently all week. It must be our room. It's been a nice break from gaming, though. We spend more time doing crafts, reading, and, well, sitting in front of the screen still I guess. Matt's been cross stitching this cool wolf scene (only his second attempt at the craft) and it's really coming together. He still has a lot to do, but it's a big project. Here's what he has finished so far (about two weeks of on-and-off work):

Math is going all right. I have a test next week and, of course, we've all ready started into new material that won't be covered on the upcoming exam. I hate doing learning and doing homework for new material when I want to focus all my attention on studying old material. We still haven't gotten our first exams graded and returned, but I hope we will on Monday. My teacher is always so excitable about problems that we do. He'll write a problem up on the board and tell us to take five minutes to do it. He will get so antsy that he can't contain his excitement and will just do it for us within the first two minutes, telling us all the time how we will be think it's so cool. I like math. I'm pretty good at math. I've just never felt really excited about it or found anything to be particularly beautiful. Until last Wednesday. I had checked out a book from the library last week about cool tricks and neat things in math. It had introduced Euler's formula, e^it = cos(t) + isin(t), which is really neat, as well as the awesome relationship between five fundamentals of math: e^i(pi) + 1 = 0. I thought this was all very cool, but the book didn't say too much about them. I was psyched on Wednesday, though, because we ran into these while discussing homogeneous linear differential equations and got to prove them! It suppose part of the excitement came from not being mostly lost in class and that I actually recognized something that we hadn't yet talked about. I'm sure non-math people can look at the two equations and not care at all, but really, they are very beautiful and amazing. I think it was the first time I really appreciated an equation as elegant and realized what a genius Euler was.

Not too much of interest has happened since my last blog. Jason's still here and workin'. Matt just got off an exercise, during which he had to work the 11pm – 7am shift. Today was his first day back working a normal schedule, thankfully. I had my first math exam last Monday which, after 7 hours of straight studying prior to the test, I think went pretty well. Really, for not being in class for half the material I think it went all right. It's a good thing there are 4 more exams this semester, though. I finally had my investigation interview for my clearance (after completing the paperwork over a year ago!) Matt, Jason and I went to a BBQ at my friend Brian's last Saturday. Brian was in my math and physics classes for the last couple of semesters, but is moving to San Diego this week. We had a blast playing a few crazy games of croquet and hanging out with friends. We're getting ready for Matt's parents to come out a week from Friday. We'll head down to Santa Barbara to pick them up on Friday evening, then they're leaving us on Monday morning, so there's not a lot of time. I'm really looking forward to it, though! Matt and I gave up our WoW addiction last month for a new one: Guild Wars. I'm enjoying it more, though. Our main characters are level 19 (out of 20) right now and got up there pretty quickly, but there's still so much more to the game, not just leveling. He has a ritualist/necromancer, I have a monk/mesmer. We also have rangers which we haven't been playing as much. I'm having a blast and it's always nice to run around with Matt. Melissa came over last night and we made dinner and baked cookies. We tried these awesome sloppy joe turnover things (just sloppy joe filling scooped into a rolled out biscuit, then folded over and baked) that everyone gobbled up and she made peanut butter cookies. While I was working on the sloppy joe meat, I saw her pouring salt into a 1/4 cup. Wondering what she was doing, I checked the recipe and saw that it only called for 3/4 teaspoon both salt and baking powder. I missed the part where she added 3/4 cup baking powder, and she was almost finished with the salt! We tried to salvage it, but it just wasn't happening. It was a good laugh, though. We'll never forgot to pay attention to measurements. :-p I've really just been hanging out with Matt during his off-time while this exercise was going on, so I haven't spent too much time by myself. That's started back up again, so I filled today with chores and crocheting. I collected a lot of cheap practice yarn when I first taught myself how to crochet, but didn't use it all up. Now I have baskets full of yarn I never really want to use. I gathered up eight skeins to make an afghan for charity with or something. I've done a few rows on it now and it's grown a lot on me. I've been wondering what on earth to get my brother's girlfriend for Christmas and haven't really come up with anything. I'm sure it gets pretty cold in New Jersey, and an extra afghan can't hurt. That is, unless Matt really wants to keep it (I think he likes it more than I do!) I also finished my Stitch My Square trades. Unfortunately, it's not going on this month, so I don't have any squares to stitch. Here is my community post with photos of all my squares, sent and received. Well, Matt should be home from work soon, so I'm off to figure out dinner!

I've been up for a few hours. I should be working on math homework, but it's really intimidating. I'm behind on my square trades. I've restarted one for the July trade 4 times now. It was just too difficult. So now I've super-simplified it, am just doing a plain block of single crochet and will backstitch the Feynman diagram onto it. I did finish one for the August trade this morning, though:

Matt and I finally used our little apartment gym room. It's nice in there, with a big weight machine thing that Matt likes, a water cooler, treadmill, elliptical machine, recumbent bike, etc. I've been lazy since I returned from Georgia. It's much more fun working on with someone, especially Matt, and he's agreed to join me thrice weekly. Sitting on my behind in front of a screen all the time has really been getting to me … Mama sent me two packages the other day. She returned all the journals I had left at home, my electronics tool box, an old dress, Christmas mugs, some Astek caribeeners, and sent us two freezer bags of chocolate chip cookies. Yup, they're almost gone. The journals are from '94 to '99 and I haven't looked at them at all for at least 5 years. I've spent most of the morning poring over those. Some of what I wrote is funny, some depressing, some ominous … most of it silly. Bad poetry, goofy doodles, lists of favorites, hearts and names crossed out and circled then re-crossed out, random musings of a 12 year-old, cut out photographs … it's definitely amusing. It's all pretty much from before my life got serious. Pages of role playing game character descriptions and background stories. End-of-my-life dramas about how some boy in my 7th grade class dumped me via a crumpled up note. Drawings, poetry, encyclopedia photocopies, and never-sent letters professing my love of Pink Floyd. The most interesting thing is reading about the day-to-day observations of my family life back then, knowing what I know now. It's all fun … or just an excuse not to do math homework all morning.

I guess that's what I should go ahead and do now, though.

Yes, it certainly is. Matt was a sweetheart and picked me up at the airport last Wednesday looking all handsome in his nice suit, and greeting me with chocolate and a rose. It's been a nice, relaxing week for me to adjust to being back home. It's cool hanging out with Jason and having him around. We play a lot of games together and whatnot. It's also nice having a third seat at dinner; we don't have leftovers that will never truly be eaten. Last night the three of us went over to my buddy Brian's house (joined by my other school pals Missy and Evin) for some food and Office Space and [if we had not been tired and stayed a little longer] Halo 2. It was a good time and it's nice to introduce Jason to some new people. We went to a new church that Jason picked out last Sunday and stayed later for a great potluck. It was a good time and a nice, small church and it suits Jason really well. Matt and I are going to return to Calvary, though. There is a lot about that particular church that we like, we just have to find a way to be more socially comfortable. That's up to us, though, and not really any fault of Calvary's. We also went to Jalama Beach last weekend, which is a very pretty, tucked-away beach right in our backyard.

We had a good time walking up and down the beach and sunbathing. The water was nearly freezing, but Matt and Jason jumped in anyway. They got a tad sunburned and Matt has been suffering all week, but we plan on going back hopefully every weekend. Good times. I also finally got a chance to upload the photos I took while TDY. I have an album up of visiting with Andrea. I said earlier that we did some origami and crocheting while I was there, here are a few of our finished products.

I also got a chance to do a bit of crocheting while I was hanging out by myself in the hotel room. I started working on a baby afghan and worked on a bunch of squares for Mama's afghan. These are the squares I completed:

So there's that. Jason and I played a bunch of pool today. I never really learned how to play, so today was sort of instructional. Of course, I've played plenty of games before, but I learned today that I've been doing everything incorrectly. We practiced for almost two hours and had a grand ol' time. I got an email from Andy yesterday saying that he had been sailing from San Diego to Santa Barbara as part of some crew, proving his seaworthiness in order to be part of some large Mexico –> New Zealand trip. I was so excited to hear he was in Santa Barbara and sent off an email immediately making plans for today. Alas, he called today from Colorado as soon as he received my message. I was a little bummed that he was in California and didn't even think to get together. He's a world-traveler now and I'm not sure when our paths will cross again. I'm sure they will. I think sometimes I just get nostalgic for times in my past. College in Colorado was fun most of the time and I do miss the friends I had then. Being that they're all males, I often feel it's inappropriate to keep in touch or be as close as I'd like to. They're good guys and I think of them often. It's always good to see someone or get an email hearing about all the great adventures. Matt and I are planning a quick trip next month. Neil Gaiman will be up near San Francisco, about 4 hours away from us, for a book signing. He's cutting back a lot on his appearances and I don't want to miss an opportunity. I've never been to a signing before, but I think it sounds like a good time. And of all the famous people I know of, I think he is the one I'd like to meet the most. Matt will take a day or two of leave and we'll probably stay the night up in the bay area. We had only been once, for a Switchfoot concert, and didn't get to explore the city at all. So maybe we'll make a big event of it. Anyhow, I'm excited to pick up Neil's Fragile Things and get to say hello. Wednesday was my first day of math class. I was really nervous about the whole thing and ready to drop the class that day. I received a text message from Erick earlier reporting that they just started chapter 5. I had just finished chapter 2 and started freaking out about how I'd never catch up. It really bummed me out a bit because I've been struggling on my own with the coursework. Then I received another text informing me that they had skipped chapters 3 and 4, renewing my confidence. I went to class and found I wasn't really that far behind. I just have to do some super-studying for our first exam two weeks from now. I'm not working (though I am researching some exciting jobs) and this is the only class I'm taking, so I shouldn't have any excuses not to do well enough. I went to the dentist today for a first exam and cleaning. It went well enough at first and I really like my dentist. Before going to Georgia I had toothaches and learned I needed a root canal due to decay around some poorly installed Air Force filling. Bummed about that, got over it though. I still need to get a crown on my tooth-stub. Today they found another filling that had improperly bonded and didn't do it's job. So I have some deep decay in that tooth as well and will go in to look at it again next week and see if we can avoid another root canal. And another Air Force filling cracked and will need to be redone. And my gums are receding around the implant I got when I was sixteen, exposing the metal. It could get worse and become a bad thing, so I need to go to someone else to see about some bone grafting. Fun … and cheap, I'm sure. Ughh. So it was somewhat of a disheartening day at the dentist, but that's life I guess. I'm just wondering how our wallet is going to take to all this work. Well, that's my overly wordy update for the week. Jason starts work on Tuesday, then I'll be home alone during the week. I have class at night on Mondays and Wednesdays, but during the day I'll be alone … studying, crocheting, and most likely blogging. So ta ta 'til then.

I’m all graduated from my class, packed up and ready to go, and just waiting for a trip to the airport now. I can’t wait to see Matt in just 14 hours. Wow, it’ll be a long day.

Well, here’s my weekly update. Last weekend Lance, Rick, Jesse and I went to Atlanta. We showed up Saturday morning, grabbed some brunch at the Original Pancake House, checked into our rooms, then they guys, sleepy from an apparently sleepless Friday night, crashed for a few hours. I finished Neil Gaiman‘s Anansi Boys, somewhat of a sequel to American Gods (though I enjoyed Anansi Boys a bit more). They’re both quite good. We went out for dinner at an amazing Barbecue Kitchen, where the portions were humongous and absolutely delectable, and for the most reasonable prices I’ve ever seen. It was heaven on a plate. We changed and went out to explore Atlanta’s nightlife. It was an opportunity for me to dress up, which I don’t do often enough. We found a club called Tongue & Groove, where they hang unusually large Easter egg-type decorations from the ceiling. I was also amused by the slide shows of random images being projected over top the artwork adorning the walls. It was a good time. A little drinking, a lot of standing around. I feel a little odd going out with three guys. There were a few bridal parties and groups of girlfriends dancing in a circle, which made wish I had some girlfriends with whom I could go out on the town. It was a nice time nevertheless. Sunday morning we went to Six Flags. It was fairly overcast, and a Sunday during the school year, so there weren’t that many people there at all. We hardly ever had to wait in line for coasters, except for two. We rode a few water rides and half a dozen roller coasters, listened to some live music, and had some lunch during the six hours we were there. I was really pleased with the park and had a better experience at the Georgia Six Flags than I had at California’s Magic Mountain. I absolutely loved Deja Vu (exhilarating!), the Super Man was pretty neat (we did the whole ride in a horizontal, flying position), and Goliath was a blast as well (CA has Goliath, but it’s a little different). It was an exhausting day, but I had a blast. We returned to the Barbecue Kitchen on our way out of Atlanta for another meal and some of their famous (absolutely amazing) banana pudding. It was quite a nice last TDY weekend.

Not much has been going on really. Class has been short this week. Monday we finished up our troubleshooting block, Tuesday we were tested on it, and today we went in early to clean the floors and get our certificates. We had our last day at the Y and our last dinner out at Tbonz. I have been slacking on my crocheting and owe two overdue squares to partners. One I’m nearly finished with, and one is more than I think I can handle and I’ve restarted it way too many times. I’ve also been trying to work on my math class, but find it difficult without study partners, a solutions manual, instructor office hours, or lectures. Whenever I get stuck on a problem, I get a little frustrated and lose a little more motivation. I go to my first class on Wednesday, so I’m going to have to knock out as much as I can before then and try to get in some instructor visits.

Well, my next post will be from home. I can’t wait! Ta ta …

I go back to California one week from tomorrow. Hooray! Our class tested out of Block III last night and I aced the test. My first test screwed up any hope for Distinguished Grad, but that’s okay. We started Block IV, which is all troubleshooting. Only two or three people can be in the lab on the equipment at a time, so the other two or three have to hang out in the break room and watch movies or play cards. It will be a long week, since there’s so much waiting around. I think it’s a positive thing, though, since I have tons of math homework to do.

Yup, I started my Linear Algebra / Differential Equations class last week. I’m on my own with it, but the book seems pretty good and it’s not troublesome yet. My instructor is good about sending me information and being there if I need any help. And I get to attend the actual class in another week and a half, so it can’t be too bad before then.

The weekend was really, really boring. Saturday morning Lance, Rick, Jesse and I went horseback riding on post, which was fun. We didn’t have to use a trail guide (because “we’re experienced horseback riders”), which is nice. I was a tad uncertain, seeing as I’ve only ever been near a horse once before. They’re pretty trained, though, and are used to just following each other around, so it wasn’t really a problem. Anytime I wanted the horse (“Ruby”) to do anything though, she wouldn’t listen to me. We were supposed to be out there for 2 hours, but they guys were bored of it after 1. We didn’t have any plans for the rest of the day, so I got dropped off at the mall to pick up a dress for next weekend (clubbing in Atlanta + Six Flags). I treated myself to a pedicure and a haircut and did some clothes shopping. The guys were all exhausted from little sleep the night before (to what was I not invited?) so they slept all Saturday. Jesse, Rick and I went out to see The Descent Saturday night. It’s the bloodiest movie I think I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t really all that scary, just startling and gory. It was nice to not be sitting around in the hotel room. Sunday we were supposed to go the Y (Rick was supposed to call …) I got a call Sunday afternoon from Lance while they were all ready at the Y (“oh, I figured you wouldn’t want to come …”) Hrmph. We got some dinner afterward at a sports bar and studied for the next day’s test. That was pretty much everything that happened this past weekend.

I’ve been downloading a lot of music, since I’ve gotten bored with the small selection I brought. I’ve been a slave to Last.fm‘s charts and forums lately. I’ve been enjoying some Medeski, Marin and Wood and Matisyahu for the first time this week. I’ve also been talked into the Loose Change hype. I know it’s old news, but I talk to many people who are adament about the whole 9/11 conspiracy. So I’m in the process of watching the Loose Change video, as well as the counter-arguments Screw Loose Change. So far so interesting …

Anyhow, now it’s time to get ready for school. More later.

So I'm just sort of sitting around, waiting for Matt to get home from work. It was so nice, yesterday he had to go to work at 5am for about an hour. Then we had the whole day to spend together before he had to return at 5pm, out of uniform and just with one other guy, to clean for about another hour. I think it spoiled me a little bit … I've just been wishing he were around. I ran some errands, though and got some last-minute pre-TDY things taken care of. I picked up my plane tickets. I'll be flying out of here at 6am on Monday and arriving in Augusta around 9pm. Phew, what a day that will be! Just a few days away … hmm. I've been crocheting a bit, lately. Here's my newest square:

It's supposed to be a daisy in the grass, then the sky with clouds, bordered by sunshine. I know, a little cheesy, but I like it. My other trade partner this month is a physics major, so we decided to use that as our square theme. (First thought: "string theory!" Hah … hmm.) I brainstormed all sorts of physics-related things to crochet, but I couldn't figure out anything that wasn't too difficult for me. So my train of thought moved from physics to math … I love fractals and thought that would be a good place to start. I started trying to figure out a cellular automaton to crochet a Sierpinski Gasket, but it wasn't working out too well for me. Lo and behold, someone had already thought this up and posted her explanation online. So I whipped up a couple of my own. Here's a blue one I made. I think it's the perfect start of a crochet bikini top.

Through this I've found that crochet has been used many times to make mathematical models. I think that's great! Two of my hobbies collide! The Institute for Figuring has awesome crochet models of hyperbolic surfaces. (DIY) I love it! I also found really neat crocheted Lorenz manifolds. Oooh! There are also knit Klein Bottle hats which can be modified for crochet. Here are other sweet fiber arts + math photos from an exhibit last year! ♥ Back to the square trade … I found out a little bit about my partner and she thought Feynman diagrams would be a good idea (as well as semiconductor band structures and wave packets). That seemed like a good start, but I wasn't positive what to do with it. There is a particular type of diagram called penguin diagrams, so I decided to do something with that. It's my first time attempting to crochet a grid to make a picture and it's going all right. It's going to be a penguin with outstretched wings and the diagram backstitched overtop it. I'm trying for something like this. We'll see later this week if that works out, though! I feel like I have too much to do before I leave. Jason's room isn't empty yet and it's mostly my junk left in there. I have four weeks left of my online art class, but I really don't want to be doing too much of it in Georgia, so I'm trying to cram all that I can in this week. I bought all new uniforms yesterday and had to get all my name tapes and patches on them and my skirt and pants hemmed as well as have everything washed and pressed before I go. I haven't even begun to pack yet! It's okay … I still have four whole days left, but I'm freaking out a little bit. It'll all be okay …

Phew! It was a pleasant enough, but very busy semester. This week is finals week, but I (luckily??) had all my exams scheduled for the first day. So as of 9:30 pm last night, my semester is over! Finals weren't so bad. First thing in the morning I had my chemistry final, which was a breeze and took about 30 minutes to complete. Then I hung out for hours anticipating my Physics 2 exam. It wasn't so bad (light, optics, quantum), but I goofed on a bit of the math, so I expect a B on it. No big deal. Then I had my conceptual physics test, which was … well, not really even an exam. Our instructor had given us a list of 20 short-essay questions earlier in the semester and told us five would be randomly selected to make up our final exam. The "exam" was also open-notes, open-book. Sunday night I typed up all the answers to these 20 questions and brought them in with my notes. Easy enough. To make it even more so, she announced before beginning the exam that had anyone prepared the questions in advance, we could just turn them in and leave. So that was that. I went home and ate pizza with Matt, watched an episode of Monk, and caught a quick nap before heading back to campus for my math final … the only one I was slightly concerned about. The exam wasn't cumulative and didn't include any calculus, just linear algebra. The stuff is a breeze and I'm really good at the mechanical aspect of it. I had studied and felt prepared. The only thing that I stumbled on was the proofs and justifications. I'm never that bright when it comes to those. The whole course was pretty tough for me, especially when we got to vector calculus. If I made 45-93% on this exam, my final grade will be a C. If I had happened to manage a 94%, I would have an overall B. I'm positive that didn't happen. I'm almost completely certain of my final grade, but our instructor will post them on Friday so I can be sure. At least I survived the class and can move on. So now it's the summer! Today I'm not really doing anything, just cleaning and putzing around online. When Matt gets home from work I'll go pick up Melissa and we'll have dinner and do something fun, maybe go over her homework. She still has another week of middle school before the summer. I'm making up a guard drill tomorrow and Thursday, but then Matt has Friday-Monday off for Memorial Day and I'll get to spend that with him. Tomorrow I go to my anthropology class orientation. I have a whole week off before that 3-week super-class starts up. It should be fine, just a lot of reading. Anyhow, now I'm going to go … hmm, play some Sims 2 or something.