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The Nervousness is Palpable

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Y’know, it’s really hard to study when you’ve got this damn thing going through your head ALL DAY LONG.

Multivariate was a super fun class, but I’m really nervous about the final. For the midterm, we only had 9 lectures to study. For the final, we have 29. And a lot of it (PCA, factor analysis, MANOVA, etc.) are things that we can’t really do calculations for by hand (at least quickly), so none of us are sure if those things will even be on the test or if there will be more conceptual questions relating to those.

Blaaaaaah.

ALSO, there’s a cat show today and I’m super tempted to go, but I should just stay home and study.

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Haha

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So we had a study session for Proofs today.

I use the phrase “study session” very loosely because we were all so stressed that we were just being off-topic as hell.

Things we talked about:

  • Our favorite books
  • Dante’s Inferno
  • The levels of hell
  • Getting masticated by the devil and how awesome that would be
  • Getting masticated in general
  • Doing the “getting masticated by the devil” interpretive dance
  • How “do an interpretive dance of getting masticated by the devil” would be fantastic extra credit on the final
  • How someone with parasigmatism would ever tell anybody they had it
  • REALLY DUMB MATH JOKES
  • “I’m not happy until I’ve been groped!”
  • Our favorite words
  • Trying to figure out what de-masticating would entail
  • Doing the “de-mastication” interpretive dance
  • How much better our final would be if we could just do interpretive dances of our proofs
  • How much better our final would be if we could just sing and/or play an instrument depicting our proofs
  • Plans to bring clarinets/saxophones/cellos/guitars/pianos to our final and just play Christmas music instead
  • The clarinet vs. saxophone debate
  • How sexy Word 2013 is
  • The meanings of our first names
  • Making fun of the meanings of each other’s first names
  • Making fun of each other’s majors (we’re a mix of math, physics, math ed., and engineering)
  • Making fun of each other in general


Things we didn’t talk about:

  • How to do proofs

Yes, our professor was there, too. I think he was just as burnt out as we all were; he was just laughing along with us (and telling the majority of the really dumb math jokes).

I’m going to freaking miss these dork bombs.

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