studentdriver

I appear to have crossed some sort of threshhold in demographics recently; my junk mail has gotten a lot nerdier. In my mail box over the last few weeks have been endless offers to subscribe to various science and engineering journals, and today I received complimentary copies of an aerospace sciences journal. Other guys get offers for Playboy or Sports Illustrated- I get book offers from the MLA, and a promise of a "free scientific calculator!" for subscribing to a magazine for astrophysicists.

So, I haven't really been coming on much of late. I guess a couple of you notice, but... eh. Considering my slight posting and commenting habits, I have to think my absence hasn't been a really bad thing for anyone. My new sleep schedule's working out, though it's knocking me off my feet by mid-morning. Classes have sapped my free time thus far; Math 262 is just the shot my brain needed to kick it back into gear. I've had to re-re-relearn old calculus stuff (a lot of techniques of integration popping up early in class), and this differential equations text is very tersely written, with few examples. I have to actually study instead of just jumping into the homework problems and figuring things out.

Logic is turning out to be a bust so far; I'd hoped for an early, intensive, focus on systems of logic- Boolean, especially- but this professor is focusing more on a communications level. My classmates are dull as well; there's one pixie-haired cutie-pie on the other side of the room, but no one talks to each other, there's little interaction. It's funny- every "liberal" class I've taken, especially those concerned with communication, has been filled with people who won't talk to each other, who sit and stare straight ahead. Every technical/science class, however, has been really open, almost communal, with everyone getting to know each other, working together, etc.

Man, I ache all over. Time to pop some ibuprofen and hit the hay.