It was a rough year... But I maintained my average almost, down about 0.6%... which, given the difficulty of the courses and the other stuff I had to deal with is more than satisfactory from where I stand.
I'm proud of how well I did, even in some really hard courses and even when I screwed up I kept going. There's a lot I can't still talk about, certainly in the public non-anonymity of the interwebs, but, well, some things just you have to deal with.
My job is awesome. I have 4 peer reviewed papers with my name on them and I wrote large sections of 3 of them. I have presented to a room full of professors twice and lived to tell the tale. I went to Ottawa for free to boot. And this summer Montreal baby... Applications of Computer Algebra Conference Computer Algebra in Education Session.
This though may be the highlight of the whole trip
Patricia Leinbach and Carl Leinbach propose to give two consecutive sessions on the topic of “Using Forensic Investigations and Computer Algebra to Motivate the Study of Mathematics.” Each session will remain within the usual Education session format (20-minute lecture, 10-minute question/discussion period).The first session will deal with the layout of a crime scene based on Patricia’s experience and use actual scene materials to the extent that they do not compromise individual’s rights to privacy to show where mathematics is used and also the type of mathematics. The second session will deal with the student use of CAS to analyse the material and data gathered at the scene of the coroner’s investigation
Can anybody call out for Numb-three-ers? Man, I so wanted this to be in my modelling courses but no, we had to study predator prey relationships and the heat equation.
Hmm... anything else? Not that can be discussed on ether... It was a terrible year... it was a great year. Time to keep going.
His Grace
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