I know, math is hard. I didn't think you learned matrices in high school. Wow, I think you're ahead for your age. Or at least I don't remeber matirces in high school. What the heck, the solution key is a study guide. There is nothing wrong in using it. Best of luck. Don't let up on your grades, this being your last semester. You'll still want to have good grades.
I don't deny there's beauty in it . When it's SOLVED and I don't have to be a part of it. Here's what I told limajean about it: My main argument against math/math related stuff is that it has only one right way to find one right answer - what you see is what you get. Whereas in literature/English/arts etc. there are many right ways to get many right answers which are all interconnected. There is math in beauty, which I can and do appreciate. But as a student... Here's my latest dilemma. In my finite mathematics class we just learned about matrices. Theoretically, I understood it perfectly. I saw what he wrote on the board, it made perfect sense, I thought I could do the homework with no problem. Yet I've been having problems left and right. At this point, it's only bulldog tenacity and a refusal to let NUMBERS best me in a fight. I KNOW the process - Gauss-Jordan elimination - and I know I'm following it. Yet the answers aren't coming out right...at least according to the book. When I try it on an online calculator I get the same answers I came up with. So I finally bended and am getting the solution key next week so I can see what I'm doing wrong. I don't think my stubborness will last a whole semester .
Well work does take up one's life. But overall I love my job. It's just things have been crazy. But I think the pressure is over now. At least for a while. We'll see. Oh it's too bad you can't appreciate math. There is a beauty in it. Think about this. What else besides is perfection in the way things add perfectly, divide perfectly, have perfect angles, perfect circles, consists of multidiensions, defines the physical universe with its equations, and is infinte? It's God! God is math, or at least part of God is. He is more than that of course. Oh that's great on you visiting PHC. Will you be flying there? Take pictures if they let you.
Ohh, I'm sorry . It's no fun when something suddenly starts taking up all your time and thoughts. (That's what I've been going through with my stupid stupid math class. Really, math people should be revered worldwide - it is THE MOST boring, irritating subject I know!! ) ok, rant over. I am getting prepared! At the end of next month I'm actually going to visit PHC with some others who got accepted. I am definitely thrilled!
I'm doing well thank you. But work has been more exhausting than usual the last few weeks. I hope I'm over the hard part and get a stretch of easy. Are you getting prepared for college? I bet that's a thrill. And I hope you're over that cold you mentioned. Thanks for stopping by and leaving me a note.
Hi! I hope you are doing well and enjoying life
We are the loyal opposition Andy. We'll get back in four years. Janine has swallowed the Obama hook-line-and-sinker.
I agree, Virg!! especially with that last line! I do so love this country...I think his speech was good, but so much of what he said could go both ways - Liberal or Conservative and that irked me a bit. Also his quoting of Washington got my goat - circumstances are certifiably different. We are not attempting to break away from a tyrant country. But in spite of my disagreement with his ideas America indeed has spoken, and I hope that he proves to be all that Americans want him to be.
Thank you Andy.
right on, Virg.
