Breaking...
Aug. 8th, 2019 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI gave the final in DiffEq today. Grades have to be posted by Monday noon, so I'm planning to grade the tests and post the results tomorrow.
Fall Semester begins the week after next; I'll probably go onto campus at least a couple of times next week to prepare slides and such and to make sure the software I need is installed and functioning in the classrooms. I'll be teaching DiffEq I, Linear Algebra I, and Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry; all of the classes are in the afternoon or early evening, which is what I prefer, and they're all in the same building - even the same floor - as my office, which is convenient.
Having to leave the house at 7AM every day really disarranged my schedule and habits. I'm glad that's done with. (Yes, yes, first world problems; ivory tower problems, even. What can I say?)
Fall Semester begins the week after next; I'll probably go onto campus at least a couple of times next week to prepare slides and such and to make sure the software I need is installed and functioning in the classrooms. I'll be teaching DiffEq I, Linear Algebra I, and Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry; all of the classes are in the afternoon or early evening, which is what I prefer, and they're all in the same building - even the same floor - as my office, which is convenient.
Having to leave the house at 7AM every day really disarranged my schedule and habits. I'm glad that's done with. (Yes, yes, first world problems; ivory tower problems, even. What can I say?)
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Date: 2019-08-09 01:39 am (UTC)In my day there was no software. Pencil and paper, that was it.
(Also, I had a strong bias towards Analysis and Foundations; no numerics: analysis, lots of integrating along curves in generalized Riemanniana manifolds with existence proofs. But there would still have been no software.)
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Date: 2019-08-09 07:02 am (UTC)For the geometry class in particular, Geometer's Sketchpad is a tremendous help. For DiffEq, drawing vector fields beoomes relatively easy with Mathematica (as opposed to impossible freehand, even ignoring my artistic incapacity).