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stoutfellow) wrote2014-12-16 06:52 pm
stoutfellow) wrote2014-12-16 06:52 pm
Winding Down
Well, finals are over; I posted grades for my classes yesterday morning, and I'll be leaving for California on Friday. It'll be a shorter trip than usual this year, only a little over two weeks, but we'll fit everything needful in.
I think I'm only going to take a couple of physical books with me this time. Both of them are time-eaters. One is volume two of a study of the late Roman Empire; I finished the first volume a week or two ago. This one has the material on trade that I was most interested in. The other is a math text, on "homotopy type theory"; it's not very long, but I know that it's going to take study to understand. Of course, I'll have my Kindle, and I'll probably buy a few books at B&N while I'm there.
Next semester will be a bit of a change for me. I'll be teaching my history of math course, as usual, but my differential geometry course didn't attract enough students and had to be cancelled. My other two courses will be Introduction to Analysis (which I taught last summer, but this time I'll have the full fifteen weeks instead of trying to cram it into eight) and Quantitative Reasoning, a freshman-level course, mainly for people who won't be going into STEM fields; I've never taught it before, and I'm a little uneasy about it. Both courses will require a good deal of prep work, which is one reason I'm coming back a week before classes start.
:yawn: I definitely need this break.
I think I'm only going to take a couple of physical books with me this time. Both of them are time-eaters. One is volume two of a study of the late Roman Empire; I finished the first volume a week or two ago. This one has the material on trade that I was most interested in. The other is a math text, on "homotopy type theory"; it's not very long, but I know that it's going to take study to understand. Of course, I'll have my Kindle, and I'll probably buy a few books at B&N while I'm there.
Next semester will be a bit of a change for me. I'll be teaching my history of math course, as usual, but my differential geometry course didn't attract enough students and had to be cancelled. My other two courses will be Introduction to Analysis (which I taught last summer, but this time I'll have the full fifteen weeks instead of trying to cram it into eight) and Quantitative Reasoning, a freshman-level course, mainly for people who won't be going into STEM fields; I've never taught it before, and I'm a little uneasy about it. Both courses will require a good deal of prep work, which is one reason I'm coming back a week before classes start.
:yawn: I definitely need this break.