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I spent $560 on books, today. My physics books are RIDICULOUS.
Modern book
Thermodynamics book
Basically, even though you might not be able to tell from the pictures, they are ridiculously scary looking. Like, I feel like I'm supposed to be really, really smart to just LOOK at these books..... much less take a course for them and use them and underst and themand LEARN them!
My math teacher is soooo...strange. Differential Equations is strange, but maybe it's only because I don't know what is happening. He's sort of insane, though. The way he talks... It's sort of frightening. He's very loud, and animated, and enthusiastic, and he never stops, and he doesn't use notes because he has a ridiculous memory, like he wrote down a table of (what seemed like) 20 random number (all decimals), and assured us they were the right values for the error function of something-or-other, and that he could reproduce the same table later, he just has a really good memory, and we only have take-home exams because the university thinks that the only way that you can learn anything is to scare the hell out of you, but we don't NEED that pressure, in the real world nobody CARES if we can solve the problem in 50 minutes, and we can look up references, so why make us do it in school, and mu of x is e to the negative x squared, and we should memorize that because what if there was a guy with a machete waiting outside the door who would chop us down if we didn't know that, and since this function is multiplied by an exponential, and the function is set to zero, and the exponential can NEVER equal zero, so if this is true then obviously these inner terms equal ZEEEROOO. Seriously, he talks just like that. ZEEEROOO. It's so funny.
And he said "ergo" in his lecture about 5 times. I am NOT even kidding.
The man is INSANE. He said our class is the only class he teaches that isn't a graduate class, but still!
History junk is boring. The man reminds me sliiiiiiightly of Mr. Raydar, but not annoying. Computer Science is STUPID. I already can tell I'll hate it. Sigh.
Modern book
Thermodynamics book
Basically, even though you might not be able to tell from the pictures, they are ridiculously scary looking. Like, I feel like I'm supposed to be really, really smart to just LOOK at these books..... much less take a course for them and use them and underst and themand LEARN them!
My math teacher is soooo...strange. Differential Equations is strange, but maybe it's only because I don't know what is happening. He's sort of insane, though. The way he talks... It's sort of frightening. He's very loud, and animated, and enthusiastic, and he never stops, and he doesn't use notes because he has a ridiculous memory, like he wrote down a table of (what seemed like) 20 random number (all decimals), and assured us they were the right values for the error function of something-or-other, and that he could reproduce the same table later, he just has a really good memory, and we only have take-home exams because the university thinks that the only way that you can learn anything is to scare the hell out of you, but we don't NEED that pressure, in the real world nobody CARES if we can solve the problem in 50 minutes, and we can look up references, so why make us do it in school, and mu of x is e to the negative x squared, and we should memorize that because what if there was a guy with a machete waiting outside the door who would chop us down if we didn't know that, and since this function is multiplied by an exponential, and the function is set to zero, and the exponential can NEVER equal zero, so if this is true then obviously these inner terms equal ZEEEROOO. Seriously, he talks just like that. ZEEEROOO. It's so funny.
And he said "ergo" in his lecture about 5 times. I am NOT even kidding.
The man is INSANE. He said our class is the only class he teaches that isn't a graduate class, but still!
History junk is boring. The man reminds me sliiiiiiightly of Mr. Raydar, but not annoying. Computer Science is STUPID. I already can tell I'll hate it. Sigh.