Monday, May 9, 2011

PLUS IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY BUT I'M STILL ONLY 20 SO LIKE WHATEVER

Anyway so it's May now... That means it's basically the end of the year and we're all going home soon and such. And finals. And finals...

Today (oh wait that was yesterday) I told myself I was going to do my Linear Algebra studying, because I have a review session tomorrow (oh wait that's today) at 1:30, which is our normal class time, so, like, I figured I'd get my questions figured out so that I could go and be productive and whatnot, you know? But instead I didn't really do anything. I just kind of dicked around, as usual. You might say, "But George, that's just your way," but, well, that's the kind of way that gets you a B in Linear Algebra, and honestly? I can't afford any more Bs. And I don't want any more Bs. I want As, damn it, and I deserve As. I'm going to get As.

Except in Differential Equations, maybe. I might get a B in DiffyQ. I might possibly not have gotten the best grades on all my quizzes in that class, and I might have gotten a serious B (like 84%) on one of the two tests, and... Well. That would be quite disappointing. But also basically okay! I'll get a grade that I deserve. Which will hopefully be an A. But I only have until Thursday, and I've never quite mastered that whole studying thing... We'll see. We'll see. I know all about Laplace transforms, and I know all about the stuff from the first exam. I need to practice the method of undetermined coefficients, I think, although my main problem was that I miscopied the problem. And I need to practice the stuff we covered recently--delta functions in particular. I don't even remember what those are. And the stuff that carries over from linear algebra, that is to say, the systems of linear differential equations that have been represented as matrices and you use eigenvalues to do, uh, something.