<p>Um, I took DiffEq over the summer in a 6-week course. It began at 6, ended at 10pm. Only problem was, thanks to DC traffic we (friend and i took it together) had to leave at 4pm and got home around 10:30. Twice a week.</p>
<p>And nah, i'm not impatient about the times. I'm actually really happy to have lots of 50min classes on three days, and very few on two others. MWF doesn't start till 10, but I have a 9:30 class TR so I'll at least get up (i'm doing a phys ed class for lifeguard training haha)</p>
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<p>well theres your problem ;)</p>
<p>I was a lifeguard for something like 3 years during the summer and a little bit during the school year. I wanted to strangle myself every time a kid or my supervisor showed up, mostly because they ALWAYS interrupted my sleeping! The nerve of them! Labor Day was the worst, I dont do well with large groups of people I dont know and loud noises, especially when I am asleep when they show up.</p>
<p>Hahahahahaha. Whatever, it pays well and it allows me to be hired by the University (which means no taxes/medicare/SS taken out! woo!) and it'll motivate me to work out.</p>
<p>PS- be glad you're not in SEAS. I'm trying to figure out this whole damn "technical elective" crapola and are so lost. I got credit for EVSC 280 from VT, and first they said "oh it doesn't count as a tech elective", then I realized they had me down for ME/AeroE, so I got it switched, now they're saying it is a tech elective, but I can't find anything that describes was is/isn't a TE for EE majors. Ugh, worst ever.</p>
<p>yea my worst long dist class was diff eq too! first of all somehow i got roped into driving my friend's brother to his stat class, but for me since i live right near the highway if his parents could not drop him off beforehand i had to drive 20 mins to his house, 20 mins back, then since it was rush hour i would sit in traffic for what should have been a 20 minute drive... then i usually had to take him home too because it was quicker than waiting around for his parents to come get him. and the class was from 5:30-8 with no breaks. BUT we had access to computers which meant lots of facebooking/solitaire/etc. so all around, on worst days, it was leave a little after 4 and get home around 9. ughhhh. thank god i never had to take that class at uva tho. it was bad enough with my psycho prof who made us read the sections ahead of time and write up what we did not understand and then would not go over anything we had asked about (what was the point of that again) plus actually having to hand in hw (imagine calculating the inverse of huge matrices for identical problem set ups with different numbers and having to show the work, okay i got it the 1st time i really dont need to waste my summer doing the other 10 thanks)...</p>
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<p>ewwwww. When I took lin al, every time we had to do something like that I would just do it in mathematica and then write it down. Teacher didn't mind a little ways into the class because she knew we knew how to calculate inverses, lol. My paper would just say given A=[], A^-1=[] and then I would move on.</p>
<p>I think I have settled on taking MATH 354. It shouldn't be too much right? More difficult than any other 300 level math course? I could take MATH 310, but it doesn't seem as interesting or useful. I can do that later.</p>
<p>Hahaha. I love people who go "you took what class? how do you even spell that?". It's just one of those classes that not only sucks, but always has a good story behind it. The friend who took it with me is also a rising second year e-schooler and we both took it simply because we know that whether you're at uva or tech (I was still technically continuing at VT when I signed up in April) it sucks. A ton. UVA's failure rate is apparently high (friend knew a kid that took 19 credits first semester and got a 4.0 in the e-school, was taking 21 second semester but ended up dropping diffeq because it was killing him haha).<br>
Anyways, our 4-10:30 day included 3 hours worth of commuting from the DC suburbs into Alexandria (pretty much DC) and it sucked. We had a teacher named "Jenny" who on the first day said to "call her Jenny because she's too young to be called anything else". Um, ok, welcome back to preschool. Anyways, we had 4 tests and a final, and she only counted the top 4 tests, no weight, no homework. By the time the last test came along, I needed a 15% to get a C. My friend needed a -13%. The class was that awesome. Did we learn everything we needed to? Maybe not, but that's why it's only 3 credits and taught through NOVA. Our book was horrible, homework was useless, and the last test was pretty much fill in numbers of equations she gave us. </p>
<p>Hey, I got an A, I don't have to take the class again, and I'm done with math for a semester or two. Woo.</p>
<p>yea my diff eq class was 1/2 diff eq and 1/2 linear algebra, so i got 4 credits for diff eq, but i got 0 for lin alg and so i still have to take that, and i know most of it from that summer. obviously. i was signed up for it last semester and then i got the book and looked through and the only thing i did not know was linear transforms so i decided not to take the class bc it would be a waste of my time. though the semester turned out to be super hard so i would have been better off just taking it and getting an easy a... well next time i need a 5th class and do not know what to do i can do that haha. if i still remember any of it. hopefully by the time i take it i will have forgotten it all so that i can have some challenge. or not. an easy class is sometimes a good break. like uh this fall semester. <em>cough 12 credits cough</em></p>
<p>Haha yeahh we got to the linear algebra stuff and the teacher was kind of ****ed that a lot of people didn't know any linear algebra at all (we spent 30min on explaining add/subtract/multiply matrices). I took a course at VT that was online and 2 credits, but UVA didn't accept it :( (however, for some weird reason, they tacked on 4 extra credits to ENGR 162, so I got 7 credits for a 3 credit class. I took a 2 credit engineering class both semesters, but one should've counted for ENGR 162, so maybe they just gave me extra credits for either linear algebra...or maybe they gave me 4 for the 2 engineering courses that were 2 credits then gave me an extra 3 for the pointless c++ class I took...I have no clue).
I'm thinking about going back and taking linear algebra at UVA, but I fear that if I don't take it this fall, I won't remember much...ugh. I do need technical electives though (which I have no clue what counts for those) Maybe this is a good summer course...
And I envy your stupid 12 credits. Even without the extra phys ed class, I still have 16</p>
<p>hazelorb, how many classes are you taking? 4 3 credit ones? I am currently only signed up for 14 credits, and I want to take more because its only 4 classes and I should really be taking 5, thats where MATH 354 comes in. That will put me at 17 credits, but man, I was afraid that taking only 14 would look bad, but 12?? lol</p>
<p>Michael Hill is really good, and he's cute too! And really smart.</p>
<p>i am taking 4 classes. im taking cs which is 3 credits, hebrew which is 4 credits, an education class which is 2 credits, and number theory which is 3 credits but i'm taking it pass fail, even better huh. i am taking a spanish class right now though which will transfer 3 credits... and i brought in 36; i can't graduate early because of the 5 year education program anyways, so it doesn't even matter...</p>
<p>i took 15 credits my first semester - a 3 credit religion class, two 3 credit math classes, hebrew which is 4 credits, and then two 1 credit seminar type classes. that was a great course load for me. last semester i took 5 classes, 4 of them 3 credits and then hebrew was 4... it was WAY too much for me and considering that i only need 12 credit semesters anyways because of the 36 credits i brought in, i will never be taking a full load of five 3 or 4 credit classes again.</p>
<p>luckily for me the education classes are pretty dinky so it shouldnt be a problem... like the one i'm taking this semester: teaching with technology. really, i know perl, what could they possibly teach me in this class. -.-;;</p>
<p>My teacher for Calc II right now also teaches DiffEq over the summer at NOVA so I'll probably do that next summer. For my CS class should I take 101 or 120 (business computing)?</p>
<p>If you;re not engineering or non-science major, take 120. I knew two College kids who took 101 and wanted to cry (it's what the engineers/CS majors take).</p>
<p>That's what I figured.</p>
<p>CS 101 is a really easy class (to get a good grade in). The class gets harder as it goes along, but you have so many free grades from the first half of the semester to pad your average before you start harder assignments and concepts. This is for Bloomfield's class (great professor btw).</p>
<p>Can anybody tell me about the Calc III professors?</p>
<p>Tunde Jakab
Ira Herbst
Lorena Bociu
Andrei Rapinchuk</p>