A Sense of Doubt blog post #2599 - 2017 HEY MOM Reprint - Studying Calculus

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2599 - 2017 HEY MOM Reprint - Studying Calculus

This is what I was doing on this day five years ago. I was studying for a calculus test.

So as I often do, I went back and grabbed THIS DATE from a prior year. I reviewed and noticed that I had not pulled from 2017 very often.

And so...

The study rooms in SANGREN at WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY were awesome.

I miss those rooms.

I would often make musical mixes when I was studying there, though probably not when studying for a test.

Wow. Seems like another lifetime ago.

Here's today's reprint. Thanks for tuning in.

Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #36

I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.

Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:

Saturday, October 16, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2433 - BLOG VACATION 2021 COLLECTED

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN:

Friday, March 31, 2017

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #633 - Studying Calculus - Exam #2

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #633 - Studying Calculus - Exam #2

Hi Mom,

Studying for a Calculus test that I have today at 1 p.m.

These pictures are from my study session yesterday.

Up top, that's music by Brian Eno on the monitor. I included the video below.

The other picture has James Blake music playing, just FYI.

I work on my Musical Mondays posts while I study.

I am not sure how well I will do on this exam.

But the good news is that I have improved a great deal in the last two years.

I passed the second mastery test last week on the first try. I conquered those limits and derivatives.

This week's test is worth more points and is over not just derivatives but applying that knowledge to real work problems: analyzing functions, optimization, related rates, and so on.

A good take away is that when I made my study guide I went back to the problems that scared me the most in my first run of Calculus, the one right after you died, when I took a hardship withdrawal. I came up against problems in that course by exam #3 that I could not even begin to fully understand let alone complete correctly. So I put those problems on my study guide practice exam, and guess what? They are actually pretty easy.

I would say "wish me luck," Mom, but I don't need to. You're right here with me. All the time.

Thanks.

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Reflect and connect.
Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.
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- Days ago = 635 days ago
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1703.31 - 6:39

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2203.31 - 10:10

- Days ago = 2463 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.