Oh my, YES.

Dec 15, 2006 13:36

I made the 3.0 in Algebra! I thought I was SO SCREWED. In grad school, if you get over three grades below a 3-point, ever, you can get kicked out of the program. Now, it's not quite as bad as it seems, since for non-qual courses anything below is 3 is very rare, and even for quals most people get above a 3. But as you can tell from previous entries, this semester has been really tough for me - partially cause of the adjustment, partially cause I took a course load that is pretty heavy by any student's standards. I've managed to significantly reduce my procrastination, but it's a process. I think I'm getting to have a better handle on things now.

I just came from my Analysis final. That was a toughie. He gave us an extra hour on a 2-hour exam, and still almost no one finished. That reassures me, though I wish he ended it earlier cause I don't think I picked up a lot of points on the last hour. The one significant thing I did think of was to apply the Holder inequality to attempt to show that a certain function g(x) is in the L1 space, but I didn't quite get there. Ah well. I'm not super worried about my grade - my homework and midterm performance in that class was mostly decent, and as long as you get a 3.0 or better, GPA doesn't really matter in grad school. The only things that really do are passing your quals, and I think I'm going to be able to do that when the time comes. Math, for me, takes a while to temper in my mind before I can wield it most effectively.
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