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.
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…
Day 2 is about to start as I’m currently waiting in my Probability and Random Stuff class waiting for it to start. So far I only have one gripe. What is it with these “kindergarten” chairs they make us sit in? At my old school, Valencia Community College, for the most part we sat at tables. This was nice as I had room to put out my books, paper to write on, or later on, my tablet PC to take notes on, and we weren’t cramped. Now, for all 4 of my classes at UCF, I have to sit in these individual desks that feel like they were made for a 12 year old. …sigh…
Oh, and why does every room have a blackboard in it? Weird that as modern a school that UCF appears to be for the most part that they would still use blackboards instead of whiteboards. I was actually picturing every room would be equipped with a smart whiteboard for the professor to use. Blackboards seem so 20th century!
My first day is half over now. I just got out of my “Matrix and Linear Algebra” class. That class is going to be great. A former classmate of mine, Tim from my Calculus III class with Professor Patel, is in the class with me. He and another guy spent most of the class playing World of Warcraft on their laptops. And the professor sounds like he should be answering tech support calls somewhere in New Delhi. He’s a bit hard to understand but I don’t think it will be too bad.
I’m now waiting for 6 o’clock to roll around so I can go to the Logic and Proof in Mathematics class. Fortunately (or unforunately when you have almost 2 hours to burn), the buildings the classes are in are real close. Of course, that gives me more time to write these entries.
My fifth class that is. An open seat finally appeared and I was able to get registered for Matrix and Linear Algebra for the Spring. I can’t wait for classes to start in just over two weeks.
