"Do you know what you just became?"
Sep. 3rd, 2003 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoy"Huh?"
Fan and I had gotten out of physics late but didn't realize it; seeing people in the history class, we assumed this was a 1st period class and thought we were early. Then Fan checked the time.
"You're late. Do you know what you just became?"
We thought. Finally, I said, "...late?"
"Yes, you're late. Now what did you just become?"
"I don't know."
"My new favorite students."
Mr. Sokolewicz repeated this routine with those students even later than us, of which there were a few, due to picture-taking. He finally settled on Hyun-soo as his favorite student. Mr. Sokolewicz said that if he could guess, we wouldn't do any history the entire year, we'd just hang out and eat candy. (Hm, sounds like one of Mr. Holbrook's classes.) I hope I didn't spoil the answer for anyone who hasn't had him yet, but oh well.
In other news...
All 16 AEDT juniors are in the same EDD class. Can you say "lack of computers"?
So, it appears our so-called "proof-oriented" calculus class isn't really going to be so at all. Tom asked if we were going to prove the intermediate value theorem; Dr. Vijaya's response was that we would use the "a continuous function is a smooth curve" proof. Yay for obviosity.
Mr. Liva spent quite a bit of class talking about how much electricity it takes to stop someone's heart...
Tom pointed out that if you take the a4=a problem and change it to a2=a, it becomes very easy, and you don't even need identity. Of course that doesn't help you solve the a4=a problem, but still...
It seems pretty much nobody has free on Tuesday last 3 mods (today was a Tuesday schedule). Well, neither do I, but we got let out of class early.
Finally, we got on the bus and went home. Which is more than I can say for *going* to school. Glen Rock switched bus companies, from Scholastic to First Student (a company I'd never heard of before today). Anyway, the bus didn't come today going to school, as you've probably already guessed. Actually, I'm told it *did* arrive - at about 7:40. By that time, I had already taken a ride with Dalia's dad; others got rides from other people's parents. Whether anyone actually took the bus, I don't know. Going home, Mr. Lynch's sheet was wrong, and he told us that our bus hadn't arrived yet, when actually it had. (It had us still using Scholastic.) It was actually a big bus, so there was no seating problem, but that may just be temporary. ("Freshmen triple up!")
George started explaining to someone his own personal ideas about some advanced scientific stuff on the bus, which resulted in much mockery. "George, do you even know what a white hole *is*?" "Brilliant! You've just rediscovered Newton's third law! And got it wrong!" (He said that the "reaction force" comes /after/ the "action force".)
-Sniffnoy
--
"We cannot let terriers and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or
hold our allies hostile."
-George W. Bush
Fan and I had gotten out of physics late but didn't realize it; seeing people in the history class, we assumed this was a 1st period class and thought we were early. Then Fan checked the time.
"You're late. Do you know what you just became?"
We thought. Finally, I said, "...late?"
"Yes, you're late. Now what did you just become?"
"I don't know."
"My new favorite students."
Mr. Sokolewicz repeated this routine with those students even later than us, of which there were a few, due to picture-taking. He finally settled on Hyun-soo as his favorite student. Mr. Sokolewicz said that if he could guess, we wouldn't do any history the entire year, we'd just hang out and eat candy. (Hm, sounds like one of Mr. Holbrook's classes.) I hope I didn't spoil the answer for anyone who hasn't had him yet, but oh well.
In other news...
All 16 AEDT juniors are in the same EDD class. Can you say "lack of computers"?
So, it appears our so-called "proof-oriented" calculus class isn't really going to be so at all. Tom asked if we were going to prove the intermediate value theorem; Dr. Vijaya's response was that we would use the "a continuous function is a smooth curve" proof. Yay for obviosity.
Mr. Liva spent quite a bit of class talking about how much electricity it takes to stop someone's heart...
Tom pointed out that if you take the a4=a problem and change it to a2=a, it becomes very easy, and you don't even need identity. Of course that doesn't help you solve the a4=a problem, but still...
It seems pretty much nobody has free on Tuesday last 3 mods (today was a Tuesday schedule). Well, neither do I, but we got let out of class early.
Finally, we got on the bus and went home. Which is more than I can say for *going* to school. Glen Rock switched bus companies, from Scholastic to First Student (a company I'd never heard of before today). Anyway, the bus didn't come today going to school, as you've probably already guessed. Actually, I'm told it *did* arrive - at about 7:40. By that time, I had already taken a ride with Dalia's dad; others got rides from other people's parents. Whether anyone actually took the bus, I don't know. Going home, Mr. Lynch's sheet was wrong, and he told us that our bus hadn't arrived yet, when actually it had. (It had us still using Scholastic.) It was actually a big bus, so there was no seating problem, but that may just be temporary. ("Freshmen triple up!")
George started explaining to someone his own personal ideas about some advanced scientific stuff on the bus, which resulted in much mockery. "George, do you even know what a white hole *is*?" "Brilliant! You've just rediscovered Newton's third law! And got it wrong!" (He said that the "reaction force" comes /after/ the "action force".)
-Sniffnoy
--
"We cannot let terriers and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or
hold our allies hostile."
-George W. Bush
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Date: 2003-09-03 04:31 pm (UTC)Yeah, my class sorta ruined that for you. She tried using the Apostol book for the first ~6 months and not only was it lost on most of my class, she often spent 90% of the period trying to go through a single proof or exercise and not getting anywhere with it. So yeah... have fun with cookie-cutter exercises and a generally AP-oriented course.