a day in the life...

... of a calc 3 TA's email inbox.

selected quotes:

> Hi Lara,
>
> Thankyou for the great office hours on Thursday, it really helped me to
> get the maple done, and it was nice to have everyone working as a big
> group.
>
> Just to clarify, the quiz is going to cover integrals in polar
> coordinates, triple integrals, Jacobians, and vector fields according to
> the last email you sent us. Is this the same as studying sections 15.7,
> 15.8, 15.9 and section 16.1? I just want to make sure that there isn't
> anything hiding in any other sections. Thankyou again for all of the
> great help and I'm looking forward to the quiz on Tuesday.

my reply:

> also make sure you're comfortable with 15.4 (this is the section on
> integrals on polar coordinates). Otherwise, your list below covers it.
>
> "looking forward to" is an interesting choice of words for a quiz...
>
> See you tuesday.
>
> Lara

at the end of the next email from the same student:

> P.S. I always look forward to your quizzes, they are normally fun in a
> wierd math kinda way. Besides they are only 20 mins. long and you normally
> give a good idea of what is going to be on it by the problems that you
> pick.

from a completely different student:

> Lara
>
> Thank you very much for your well thought out and time consuming answer! This is
> such a big help!
> Thank you!

and my personal favorite:

> Lara,
>
> you're god!
> thank you~