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Extra funding granted.
Looks like I won't have to fight for it after all.
The Analysis final kicked my ass. It kicked everyone's ass. Our professor has assured us it's going to be graded very lightly (e.g. 100/150 is a perfect score, and anything over about 50 will probably get an A), but in terms of sheer difficulty, this was by far the hardest exam I've ever taken. Organic last semester was very rough, but this one takes the cake. I suspect I scored somewhere between a 40 and 70.
In lieu of a description, here are three of the ten problems on the two-hour exam, as best as I can recall them:
Those three are the three I think I actually got. The rest . . . not so much. Anyone who took a semester of calculus can probably see that number 4 is a result of the Intermediate Value Theorem, but the complete proof is tricky.
By the way, the answer to number 6 is "pi squared over 54". Unless I did something horribly wrong. In which case I'm even more screwed.
Anyways, enough of Analysis. I'm taking two MUCH better math courses than Analysis next semester: Abstract Algebra and Differential Geometry. I'm told that both topics reside more in happy-application-land than theory-proof-land, although algebra has a fair amount of proof.
Only one more final and I'm coming home! I'm sorry I'm never online, it's been an unusually complicated semester, but I do really want to see everyone and hang out over the break.