Today was the first day of classes for me… at least I’m trying the classes, but so far it looks like they are very accepting, and it may be good to “waste time” this way before I can find a job, and eventually do a masters.
First class started at 8am, there were only 8 of us in the class, all females. It was a class in Mechaniques (Mechanics). I thought I was going to cry after it because of the difficulty level, but in fact, it wasn’t at all bad.. most of it was very logical, and some of it I knew from previous physics classes.
Next class was supposed to be probability, but for some reason, no one showed up… so there are no more classes today. Instead, I got to know some in my class girls, and after showing me where the first class will be tomorrow, we entered the library, where the three of them are doing dictations in English. It is quite hilarious to listen to them think up these incredibly confusing and long equations that no one will ever need to know, then dictate their concoction to each other, for example:
“Four-hundred and fifty six thousand and eighty-nine, squared, plus 8 to the power of 2 divided by 10, all under the root of five, is equal to twenty four over forty seven, multiplied by open the parenthesis, the ninth rooth of seventeen minus the 7th root of 19, closed the parenthesis cubed.”
Also, what is really positively surprising is that the library is completely full at lunchtime on a Monday. I have never seen such dedication in the USA.
Ah, and one girl just lent me her notes from the past 3 weeks for all the classes… which I must copy and learn, because the first exam session is in 2 weeks!