I felt really, really stupid in Diff Eq this morning. I don’t really remember trig tricks- so substituting in the derivative of theta for 1/q^2 + 1 dq just doesn’t occur to me any more, and I feel like the tutors are getting sick of talking me through it. Though my crowning glory was “wait, how do I integrate z(x)dz?” “The same way you integrate xdx… (*funny look*)”
It’s sort’ve depressing that I’ve transcended normal math so far as to fail that epically at regular calculus things. At least Alycia was having the same problem. Give us a proof involving rings and groups and we’re golden, but semi-tricky integration and substitution? Not so much.
Napping ensued, of course.
After that we had Magic Me, which is the volunteer thing I’m doing. We talked a bit on campus before we left, and then went to the nursing home. I got paired with a lovely woman named Elsie, who pretended she was more deaf than she was and teased me (I loved when she called me a show off for sitting with my legs tucked underneath me), but legitimately had a poor memory. I wished that Catherine, the coordinator, had mentioned how she jokes BEFORE we went, since I didn’t quite know how to react when she said, “I’m not important,” on numerous occasions. Apparently that is also a joke, and I should have laughed. Which I did a bit, since that’s who I am, but if I’d known better I would’ve been able to laugh more. But she seemed a bit sad to see me go, which was very nice.
I talked to some of the other girls a bit on the way back to campus, and then I went over to Shidvash’s flat; she made us pizza and these yummy cheese balls from Budgens (I am SO buying some) and then we watched Bride Wars on a website… said site is going to be the cause of my failing out of school, incidentally. Being able to watch any movie I want for free? Okay.
I went back to my room and Caitlin came over; we almost did a photo-scavenger hunt through ISH, but when we were trying to solve the last four clues we were having no luck at all, so we decided to quit, and went to Drapers with UF Kevin instead. Vanessa and Hilary met up with us there, and we ran into Phil and Adib and their friend Greg. We talked for a while (including sharing jokes about physics vs. math people, and a rather deep discussion about the concept of "zero"), and then danced around a bit (they started playing eighties music, how could I resist?) and one of my friends’ friends was teaching me how to salsa, which was a lot of fun.
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