Well, I finally got (I think) the last of my tutees and my class schedule is set so this is my 5 day Mon-Fri schedule:
Work (tutoring): 25.5 hours (I actually have 2 more hours available on the schedule but no one’s taken them yet)
In classes: 11 hours
Driving between VCC, UCF, and my house: 12.5 hours
Sleeping (as if I got 8 hours a night sleep…): 40 hours
Total: 89 hours
Wow…no wonder I’m so exhausted at the end of the week. I always said there weren’t enough hours in a day. Now I have proof of it.
is math related and pretty funny. Check it out:
http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2009/02/08/
Overheard in the math lab:
Tutor: OK, so now we have two sides and we know the angle is 30 degrees. So for the next step, what is the sine of 30?
Student: Um….positive?
I almost bust out laughing when I heard that but I composed myself quickly. For those of you who don’t understand the joke, it would be equivalent of something like this:
Tutor: OK, so you know all your state capitals…what’s the capital of Florida?
Student: Um…F?
Priceless…absolutely priceless… 
This seems to be test week for me at UCF. I’ve already got a take-home test that is due Monday for Proof and Logic that I’m not worried about. I haven’t started it yet, but I did look at the questions and there was nothing in there that gave me pause. I should make a very good grade on it.
I took my first test in Matrix and Linear Algebra on Monday. Surprisingly, it was only 4 questions and there were no adjugates on it. Another question was solving 3 equations with Cramer’s Rule. That was very easy. The other 2 were solving a matrix via Gauss-Jordan elimination and solving a matrix via upper and lower triangle decomposition. I’m pretty confident on the LU triangular one and so-so on the Gauss-Jordan one. Hopefully I’ll get my test score back tomorrow but it’ll probably be Monday.
No test has been announced yet for my Probability class.
And that leaves Differential Equations. The test will be given this coming Tuesday and will consist of 9 questions. They will cover seperable, exact, linear, and Bernoulli differential equations, only one of which will be an initial value problem. Also on the test will be my ability to determine the linear dependence or independence of a group of functions via their Wronskian. I do not have good feelings about this test but will study as much as I can until Tuesday going on the belief that I can do good.
Probably not though…
