if i wanted to deal with this bs, i would be getting a B.S., not a B.A. GET IT??

[mygypsyeyes]

i cannot even begin to describe the ways in which this sentence confuses and upsets me:

"The local statement of the dynamics of the string are easy to understood;
the rule is very simple and intuitive: The force on a segment of the string
caused by the transverse displacement of that piece of the string is propor-
tional to the negative of the average of the displacement of that segment of
the string from the displacement of its neighbors."
-Dr. Gleeson

pray for my sanity. that is all, for now.