What Are You Studying This Spring?

[rachmaninoff]

The new semester is about to start... for the few of us in the northern hemisphere. What courses are you studying or teaching?

I think we have a thread like this every semester. So I figure I'll start this one off.

 

[JasonRox]

I got...

Complex Analysis
Basic Analysis
Abstract Linear Algebra
Ancient Philosophy (Ethics)

 

[Jelfish]

QMech, Gen. Relativity, Complex Analysis, and some humanities.

 

[siddharth]

I have

- Multiple Integrals, Vector Matrices and Differential Equations
- Transition Metal Chemistry, Main Group Chemistry, Organic chem
- Electromagnetic theory
- Basic Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Thermodynamics
- Process Calculations
- Engineering Drawing

What courses do you have rachmaninoff?

 

[matthyaouw]

Still doing Core skills in physical geography, and People, Land & time from last semester. I've also got Reasearch design and field study, and Ecosystems.
I also get to go on a week long field trip to http://ret0057t.eresmas.net/Fotos/Landscape/Big/Ct-Teresitas.jpg

 

[rachmaninoff]

What courses do you have rachmaninoff?

It's very much up in the air at this minute, and I don't want to be speculative on this forum... I expect to have a better idea later today or possibly tomorrow. I'll post then; until then, enjoy the suspense!

 

[ranger]

I'll be taking

Calculus II
Advanced Mechanisms
Electronics
Intro to C++

 

[Pyrrhus]

I'll be taking
Structural Analysis II
General Hydraulics
Hydrology
Construction Materials (Materials in Engineering)

 

[Michael_McGovern]

Next semester I'll be taking:
Physical Chemistry II
Boundry Value Problems
Chemical Process Simulation
Advanced Calculus I
Heat Transfer
Chemical Reaction Engineering
Macroeconomics

I hope that's what I'm taking anyway. There is a scheduling conflict between calc and BVP's, but I think the time of the calc class is going to change so I'll be able to take both.

 

[mattmns]

Spring looks like:

-Graph Theory
-Vector Analysis
-Linear Algebra
-Probability/Statistics
-History: Western Civilization
-Tennis

Should be a fun semester as long as I don't have some jackass history teacher

 

[Maxwell]

Electromagnetic theory
Control Systems
Communication Theory
Linear Algebra
Junior EE Lab
Junior EE Seminar

 

[Cyrus]

-Thermodynamics
-Engineering Statistics
-Electronics and Instrumentation I (Fancy words for basic circuit design)
-Architecture of non western civilizations
-criminal justice, again. I flunked it last semester because I never went and hated that Bit...i mean lovely lady teaching the course. What a stupid corse...

 

[Jelfish]

I'm retaking Complex for a similar reason. The professor decided to make the final worth 45% of the grade and have it all be based on the last 2 weeks' material

 

[Azael]

electronics
messuring technology(I don't know if this is the correct translation)
thermodynamics
solid state physics

 

[JasonRox]

I know most of you hate humanities, and I hated them too before.

I had 3 terms with only mathematics and physics courses, and now I got one Philosophy. So far I enjoy it, and I will make the most of it.

I hope you all make the most of your humanities credits, and not simply take a super easy one. I took Philosophy because I was interested in it, but if I didn't have to have humanities, I wouldn't take it though. Nevertheless, I will make the most it. My next and last humanities might be a history course, preferably Ancient or 1500-1600's.

 

[mattmns]

Jason, I am not sure about how much you are interested in history, but I have yet to take a fun history class; in fact, this semester I will be taking my fifth history class.. If I were you, I would look for something else to take, as I believe you are a pure math major, unless you really think you will like it.

The only other humanities class I have taken is English Literature, and it was better than the history classes I have taken in my opinion, but I hated the poetry part of the class. Thankfully, I will be done with all of those core classes at the end of this spring semester if I continue to major in Math Ed.

Note: I have taken so many history classes because I am majoring in Math Education and I need to know history, at least according to my degree requirements

 

[chroot]

I'm only taking one graduate class, Digital Communications II.

- Warren

 

[JasonRox]

Jason, I am not sure about how much you are interested in history, but I have yet to take a fun history class; in fact, this semester I will be taking my fifth history class.. If I were you, I would look for something else to take, as I believe you are a pure math major, unless you really think you will like it.
The only other humanities class I have taken is English Literature, and it was better than the history classes I have taken in my opinion, but I hated the poetry part of the class. Thankfully, I will be done with all of those core classes at the end of this spring semester if I continue to major in Math Ed.
Note: I have taken so many history classes because I am majoring in Math Education and I need to know history, at least according to my degree requirements

It doesn't have to be fun. My Complex Analysis class surely isn't fun. It's boring and slow, but I still enjoy mathematics.

 

[mattmns]

It doesn't have to be fun. My Complex Analysis class surely isn't fun. It's boring and slow, but I still enjoy mathematics.

Oh, well if you enjoy boring and slow, then you might actually have no problem with history classes.

 

[fargoth]

next semester will be my last for this B.Sc degree

and i only got
-radiation theory
-electronics 2
-electro-optics lab (yay! 8 houres of joy)

i got so much spare time! and i hope my interviews went well... if it all goes right i'll be working on nano-machines and nano-electro-optic devices in one of the biggest companies in my country.
(or work on a high-energy solid-state laser research at the nuclear research plant, that's my second choice )

 

[moose]

Well, I'm a junior in high school...

-AP Physics (it's the same essentially as the physics for live science majors)
-AP Calculus I
-Computer Programming (my teacher is a communist...in a serious sense)
-English III

 

[Moonbear]

Oh, well if you enjoy boring and slow, then you might actually have no problem with history classes.

That's always been my experience with history classes. There has GOT to be a better way to teach those. I didn't realize I actually enjoyed learning about history until I was out of high school and was no longer subjected to the dry littany of names, dates and events.

I'm teaching this semester...a problem-based learning class for the first-year med students. The first class was today, and what fun it was! I definitely have an interesting group of students. Apparently they have a drinking game based on the class...who knew?!

I also seem to be giving a lecture in a repro class, since the grad student in my lab came up to me and asked if I was teaching in the class because my name is on the schedule of lecturers. I talked to my chair today about that...he said I left for vacation before he had a chance to ask about it, so if I couldn't do it, he was going to teach it. So, that's why I'm on the schedule without having been told about it yet. It's a topic I've taught a few times before, so it's no big deal as long as the time doesn't conflict with anything else I'm doing. I just need to dig out those old transparencies (it's been a while since I taught that, so none of it's on my computer yet).

 

[mrjeffy321]

-Computer Programming (my teacher is a communist...in a serious sense)

Really, a communist, How so?


As physics major, surprisingly, I am not taking any physics this semester because I don’t have the Calc II credit yet for Electricity and Magnetism and I tested out of Mechanics and Heat.

I have:
Chem. II (+ lab)
Calc II
US History (civil war to present day)
Government
MicroEconomics

 

[devious_]

Honors Calculus 2
Honors Linear Algebra
Honors Probability Theory
Computer Science 2 (Java)
& a humanities course.

 

[moose]

Really, a communist, How so?

Well, he's not REALLY a communist, BUT

Yesterday he was talking about how we need to think of ways which would improve the world (wtf?) and afterwards he said

"And don't say something like spreading democracy, that wouldn't improve the world... now, communism, maybe, it makes more sense at least"

 

[G01]

hmmmmm, I got:

Calc II
Calc-based General Physics II w/lab (Waves & Optics ------> E&M)
Computer Science I
Intro to Philosophy
Composition
Badmiton&Racquetball

 

[Mulder]

Black Holes
QFT
Adv. statistical physics
extreme astrophys.

gonna be fun but hard :)

 

[EvLer]

Here's mine:

probability for electric and computer engineers
signals and systems
microprossesors design and interfacing
research in semantics

my engineering friends say it's going to be tough, but I'm pretty excited

 

[scorpa]

Mine are:

Biochemistry
Inorganic chemistry + Lab
Organic chemistry + Lab
Cell Biology + Lab + Seminar
English...which I despise with every fibre of my being
...and I think I will start guitar lessons again just for fun

I'm suprised no physics or math this semester...probably next year again.

 

[JasonRox]

Oh, well if you enjoy boring and slow, then you might actually have no problem with history classes.

I never said I enjoy boring and slow.

Even though some math classes are boring and slow, I still enjoy mathematics.

There is no mention of whether or not I enjoy boring and slow. If it implies anything, you can analyse to show that I hate it.

 

[franznietzsche]

Special Relativity
Thermal Physics
Modern Physics II
Experimental Physics
Electrical Measurements Lab

I like this quarter, its fun.

 

[mattmns]

There is no mention of whether or not I enjoy boring and slow.

I guess you must have misread my post. I said, IF you enjoy boring and slow then you will enjoy history. I never said you enjoy boring or slow.

 

[Sting]

I'm taking Advanced Lab II, Electrodynamics, Atomic Physics, Special Relativity, Senior Seminar II, and I'm studying quantum relativity under Dr. Finkelstein and working with Dr. Sheldon Jeter in the Mechanical Engineering department here at GT.

 

[CD]

Quantum Field Theory and Applications of QM

 

[Sting]

Applications of QM

What an oxymoron.

 

[franznietzsche]

What an oxymoron.

So how exactly are you posting that?

 

[LENIN]

Physics I.
Analysis I.
Physical experiments I.
Programming (C programming language).
Proseminar (something about theaching higschool physics).

 

[rachmaninoff]

Some of my classes start today. It's 5:57 AM and I've been awake for three hours... that's overexcitement for you! Anyway, my schedule is still up for grabs - some courses don't even have set meeting times yet. Today I'm going to

Partial differential equations ('PDE's)

which is the one thing I'm reasonably certain about (other than Russian language).

 

[Sting]

So how exactly are you posting that?

I'm sorry but I don't follow.

By the way, that statement I made a few posts back is just a sardonic comment on how I feel quantum mechanics is taught. Especially when I had it, they shoved a lot of theory down our throat with little (if any) applications.

The first few months of taking it, I viewed it as a mathematical theory and I failed to see how the physics connected to it on a deeper level...only after I stepped back and reflected on it, did I start to develop an appreciation for it.