Wednesday, December 10, 2008

End of Line... Carriage Return

Or at least the term. Just finished last final. It was statistics and I'm pretty much convinced although it is an important branch of science, it isn't sciencey enough. I did a whole class and didn't do a single Taylor expansion; I don't think that has ever happened to me in any class since my first-first year. Definitely not in a non-100 level 'science' course. It shows that too many things are calculable without the need for approximation, which means your not doing hard enough stuff.

Insert thought break so this next section looks less jarring.

.. just for a laugh, I thought I'd look and see how many classes I've taken at UBC:
ASTR: 201, 202, 303, 304, 402, 403, 404, 405, 449*
BIOL: 111
COGS: 200
EOSC: 114
MATH: 200, 215, 221, 300, 307, 316, 317, 318, 342, 345
PHIL: 220
PHYS: 200, 203, 206, 209, 301, 304, 308, 309, 314, 400, 402, 403, 407
STAT: 200
*Thesis

Not the most well rounded education... I would describe it as 'trimodal'. Couple that too 40ish transfer credits as well.

But I've realized I've accumulated a lot of knowledge, but never really applied except through regular application of smartassery. Coupled with unnecessary vocabulary. At least in a year or two it'll be describable as... quadramodal?