M52A

It's been 8 months since I left school, and I am feeling very vulnerable intellectually. This last week was spent almost exclusively on doing Vector Calculus, and I should have a test for this on either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning.

Since starting Calculus in the office, I have been a hot target for not complying with Office Safety rules. My cubicle is, by far, the messiest, with its scattered scraps of working paper, various pens and pencils that I keep loosing under all that paper, and a reservoir engineering book opened so that when someone walks by, I can say that all the maths I'm doing is for the purpose of understanding flow conditions in a reservoir. We are supposed to lock up all our work at the end of each day, but somehow, I think that no one will be interested in pilfering my failed attempts at deriving the formula for curvature of a graph in various parameters.

By the end of next week, I should finish up PDEs and Lagrange Multipliers, perhaps just a few hours short of the course deadline. I can remember the excitement with which I signed up for the course, but various distractions and work attachments generally kept me too busy for getting too much enjoyment out of this. The text for the M52A course is rather uninspiring, and I hope that I will be assigned better books in university. The lecture videos compensate for this though, and I have made vast improvements in my math solution writing skills. Overall, M52A has been helpful.