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Thursday, 23 October 2003
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Good:
1. I got my Vector Analysis test back today. 47 out of 50 baby! The three points off was from the I-obviously-don't-learn-from-my-mistakes-very-well-because-this-is-the-same-question-as-our-first-quiz question.
2. Saw Truc tonight and caught up with her a bit while she gave me a ride home. It was good to see her again.
3. Got my flu shot
4. Placed the food order for the Math Club student/faculty social
5. I had written to the Mustang Daily thanking them for putting a crossword in there now. I didn't expect it to get run because it wasn't controversial or dissing someone or in response to the sex columnist. I just wrote it to say that I wanted them to keep the crossword. So imagine my surprise when I glanced through a Mustang Daily while waiting for Hartig to show up late and saw my letter in there.
6. Didn't get Linear Algebra test back.

The Bad:
1. I was so groggy today, it was not fun.
2. Linear Algebra homework is frustrating (nothing new there though I suppose). At least April got the same answer as me so maybe the book has a typo.
3. We didn't get our Linear Algebra test back.

The Ugly:
1. My Combinatorics test. That was awful. I confused so many things with each other. Only 8 problems on the test. One was to compute P* and P2. I switched the formulas for the two. I should have gone with my instincts on P* and finished it the way he showed us in class but the formula was sticking out in my mind. Just that it was the wrong formula. Another question I thought the T numbers were for identical balls so I was like "I can't use it" and was trying to reason my way through getting a different answer. Afterwards I looked it up and found that T numbers are for distinct objects. Which is just great since I used a T number for an identical ball problem. So, if you're keeping track, that's 3 out of 8 questions that I *know* I fucked up. And that was with the extra time. And next time I'm taking it over at the DRC, just a lot more convient than moving at the end of the period to the professor's office because going over there ended up making 15 minutes later for work than I told Jim I would be late. Then again I wasn't expecting to take that much time. *sigh*
Side note: Meghan and I were discussing after test philosophies. I look up the answers right afterward and therefore I'll be very happy when I get partial credit on the ones I completely botched (aka pity points). Whereas she won't look them up until after the test. That amused her.

Posted by Mandy at 9:29 PM PDT
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