Exciting news (for me): my request for a previously non-approved double major has been accepted! Apparently the committee that decides these things was more convinced by my explanation of why math and political science totally go together than I was.
So now I am officially majoring in math, political science, and international relations (they threw that last one in for free).
Just to make it perfectly clear - no, I didn't get my degree. Come on, I'm only 30. I got approved for a major, the degree will be (hopefully) in another three years or so.
And now to explain why I'm majoring (in part) in math, despite whining about it constantly whenever I'm in a math course:
So for one thing, I should explain that despite all of my whining about how hard it is and how I'm going to fail everything and how it's totally not fair that they expect me to prove things without telling me how first, my grades in math actually haven't been that bad so far. I'm averaging a 85, which isn't genius-level great, but is definitely above average (as measured based on the grade distribution in the specific classes I took, for the semester I took them).
(No, I'm not counting Java. Java is computer science, not math. Java is also a terrible course that can go do horribly perverse anatomically impossible things to itself. It DOES NOT COUNT.
Anyway.)
I'm not sure if the fact that I've received above-average scores so far says something good about me, or something really bad about Open U.
(But seriously, none of my grades have been in advanced-level courses, so far. Once I get into those courses, I have a feeling "top 50%" will be a major challenge. Heck, "top 90%" will probably be a challenge.)
(Also, the salting the coffee three times thing was totally reasonable. It was early (before eight!), I was very tired, and I couldn't even drink coffee to wake me up because some moron kept putting in salt instead of sugar.)
The second and more important reason is Ali's Theory of Decision-Making (and no, I'm not going to prove this theory. I have to save my "proving things" energy for math now, so everything I say for the next two semesters that isn't about math is going to be in the form of unsubstantiated declarations).
The theory is basically this: commit only to those things you find yourself unable to part with.
So for example, how do you know who to marry? Marry the person who makes the thought of not staying together for life scarier than the thought of committing for that long (hi Viggy!).
How do you know where to live? See which place you most want to come back to again and again (and can afford to live in. Which might be two totally different places. So bad example).
How do you know what to major in? Well, when you find yourself registering for math courses over and over despite the pain - you know what to do.
I realize that this theory would support, say, heroin addiction as a more reasonable choice than, say, exercise and a healthy diet. What can you do, no theory is perfect.
So now I am officially majoring in math, political science, and international relations (they threw that last one in for free).
Just to make it perfectly clear - no, I didn't get my degree. Come on, I'm only 30. I got approved for a major, the degree will be (hopefully) in another three years or so.
And now to explain why I'm majoring (in part) in math, despite whining about it constantly whenever I'm in a math course:
So for one thing, I should explain that despite all of my whining about how hard it is and how I'm going to fail everything and how it's totally not fair that they expect me to prove things without telling me how first, my grades in math actually haven't been that bad so far. I'm averaging a 85, which isn't genius-level great, but is definitely above average (as measured based on the grade distribution in the specific classes I took, for the semester I took them).
(No, I'm not counting Java. Java is computer science, not math. Java is also a terrible course that can go do horribly perverse anatomically impossible things to itself. It DOES NOT COUNT.
Anyway.)
I'm not sure if the fact that I've received above-average scores so far says something good about me, or something really bad about Open U.
(But seriously, none of my grades have been in advanced-level courses, so far. Once I get into those courses, I have a feeling "top 50%" will be a major challenge. Heck, "top 90%" will probably be a challenge.)
(Also, the salting the coffee three times thing was totally reasonable. It was early (before eight!), I was very tired, and I couldn't even drink coffee to wake me up because some moron kept putting in salt instead of sugar.)
The second and more important reason is Ali's Theory of Decision-Making (and no, I'm not going to prove this theory. I have to save my "proving things" energy for math now, so everything I say for the next two semesters that isn't about math is going to be in the form of unsubstantiated declarations).
The theory is basically this: commit only to those things you find yourself unable to part with.
So for example, how do you know who to marry? Marry the person who makes the thought of not staying together for life scarier than the thought of committing for that long (hi Viggy!).
How do you know where to live? See which place you most want to come back to again and again (and can afford to live in. Which might be two totally different places. So bad example).
How do you know what to major in? Well, when you find yourself registering for math courses over and over despite the pain - you know what to do.
I realize that this theory would support, say, heroin addiction as a more reasonable choice than, say, exercise and a healthy diet. What can you do, no theory is perfect.
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