Monday, December 11, 2006

Two Down

Heat Transfer was about what I realistically expected. I had hoped that I wouldn't need to solve an actual differential equation, but that was a little too much to hope for. As it ended up, there were three problems related to the same physical problem, and each built on the previous one. Essentially, the first problem dealt with the first big step, finding the eigenfunction. The next problem was applying that eigenfunction to a subproblem of the last one. In order to solve the last one, you needed to do the other two, but if you did the test in order, you already had them. The test was then 50% that problem and 50% other stuff, but with the questions weighted equally. I'm almost positive I got everything "right." I qualify with quotations because at least one problem wasn't black-white grading. You might do steps correctly, but make some bad choices about variables (not wrong, just not optimal) and I don't know how he'll score that. I like my answer to the problem, but that doesn't mean anything when he's grading it.

Tonight, the Lee-and-Jeffrey tradition of steak overload after finals continued. Usually, we do it after all finals are over, but we (at least I) won't be in town tomorrow night, and all-you-can eat steak is too good to pass up. The soft serve was good, too.

I'm just about packed up for the semi-move home. I haven't been home for this long since last December, before I started to UTSI. I'm not really taking that much with me, for a trip that long. My room at home is still furnished (everything here is either new or came from relatives who didn't need it or from yard sales), so I don't need anything but clothes and my computer stuff.

Agent 99: You'll be in extreme danger every minute.
Maxwell Smart: ...and... loving it.

More tomorrow.

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