... off and running

it's going to be an interesting semester.... soooo nice to not be in required classes anymore... in general the 5 required 1st year classes have an insane homework load, and most classes beyond that (1) don't assign grades below a B, and (2) are much more bearable.... now that i'm a second year, both of those facts are extremely comforting...

i had 3 of my 4 classes today... 1 i'm excited about, 2 will be ok, and the class i haven't had yet is with a really tough prof i had last semester.

the one i'm excited about is experiemental mathematics... usually you don't see those two words together... but we'll be spending the first few weeks learning how to use maple (a computer algebra program), and then learning about computer based proofs... it's in a computer lab with a cool israeli guy for the prof... some of the functions in maple are actually named after him, which i find hilarious.

had a nice drawn out lunch with sarah today... and starbucks after... i like chatting with her :-)

back to being a bum for a little bit -- i only have 1 of my textbooks so far (most profs didn't order copies and just told us today what we need), so it's kinda hard to work without them.

later dudes.