oh joy

crazy week

i'm making decent progress on stuff for my reading class today, but that's interspersed with something else...

tomorrow morning i get videotaped while i teach a mock lecture to 3 other math grad students... it's the final step in our TA training program. lecturing for 20 minutes or so on camera, discussing how it went with the TA training instructor, and then i'm officially certified to teach in the fall... oi.

the section i have to lecture on is applications of derivatives (the calc problems that are like "so say farmer brown wants to make 3 pens shaped like in the diagram below and he only has 80 feet of fence -- what's the maximum area he can enclose?")

it's really not a big deal, but i went through this afternoon and worked the 15 problems i could possibly have to present to make sure there weren't any nasty numbers that required a calculator... it should all be fine, i just will be glad when it's over with.

tomorrow 3 other grad students who will ask ridiculous questions, in a few months a room full of undergrads... oh joy oh joy :-P

in the meantime, lots of math, and counting down til my mock lecture is done :-P

later dudes