this spring break hot spot is located at 151 N.Anderson Rd. here you will find 2 cats, 1 dog, and 4 birds. the birds provide a wonderful morning wake up call around 8 am. then you can look forward to daily fun time activities. there is the breakfast buffet where all the animals(except you) enjoy food from all over the world. one especially ( Read more... )

my vaction is just about over. school starts again on monday. today i had two, hour long meetings. this semester i have two sections of math 109 which is more beginning algebra for the chance program. i have one section of math 155. which is trig. there are like 28 kids in there. i haven't done trig since high school. however, being the ( Read more... )

calc one is really about two ideas. they are integration and differentiation. those two are paired together much like addition/subtraction and multiplication/division. differentiation is a rate of change. basically it tells you how a curve (function) is changing at a given time. this is built up by tangent lines. cool thing about lines is ( Read more... )

well we are 5 weeks through the semester now. only 9 weeks left to go. this job takes up a lot of my time. i am teaching 3 sections of very basic math for inner city little gangsters and one section of calculus. so i pretty much just have freshman. i like having a little balance between really challenging students and very good math students ( Read more... )

shit, i dont remember what i wrote in here last time. i would hate to repeat... that would just look foolish. the summer of success continues for your good friend the lancer. today in the mail he received his first contract for work. i am going to be a full time instructor at Northern. which is pretty sweet for several reasons which i will ( Read more... )

i passed my comps. it is all done. i have obtained a master's in applied mathematics. also, i recently got some new music. the new islands, iron and wine, and i got a really good mix cd. so now i have my champion of universe soundtrack. i'm ready to conquer the job market... well starting tomorrow. it is too much to attempt on a monday, ( Read more... )

i'm not sure how much more of the waiting game i can play. the results of my exams should be in my mailbox within the next few days. i just want to know how i did so i can move forward, one way or the other. i still have high hopes that i did well ( Read more... )

this is the last day of may. i have 12 days left of studying until round two with the qualifying exams. i have locked myself away and will continue to do so until the exams are over. i wake up around 9 and studying with my friend pat from 10 to 3. come home, eat, rest and then studying more at night. there are worse ways to spend my days i ( Read more... )

my days have been quiet of late. a sequence of 5 similar days followed by a lazy one and then a scrambling one. eventually this sequence will converge to something new. something that doesn't have to do with spending the day working on problems to study and tests to take. although, for the first time, i have thrown myself into my schooling and ( Read more... )

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