Entry # 3

Hello Group Mates!,

This is my 1 personal post -

So living with my parents again is a fun experience, I LOVE NOT HAVING TO BUY FOOD!  Free food, all the time = AMAZING!

Background story: My parents moved to Florida for the past 9-10 months or so while I stayed at our house in Jersey for school.  I am going to be honest, it was a really great experience living on my own, however I am so happy that I have a fully stocked fridge all the time now!

Also, they brought back my dog!  I have a boxer, he is about 3 years old and is the coolest!!

EDIT: For some reason the sound isn't working in this video.  But he does this really cute trick that I taught it, if I say bang he plays dead, but only when you say bang twice!

On a side note it is pretty great to have family around again!

Also, Halloween weekend was a blast!  Hopefully you all had fun too!

Best Regards,
Christopher G.

Entry #2

Hello Group!,

Wow that was an entirely way to long of a week, SO MUCH WORK! SO MUCH LEARNING! GAH! But thats college, and I secretly love it ;).

Here is a breakdown!

List of Classes / Topics
1) Mathematical Reasoning (Proofs) - I LOVE THIS CLASS.  We spent all day on monday proving the Well Ordering Principal, which was a little too abstract for my comfort zone, it pretty much says if a set is non empty then it has a smallest element.  Also, we got our exams back! It was a really hard exam, I am SO glad I slept the night before the exam!  (I have this issue that if I do not sleep, my brain just does not function lol).  

Here is a link to the WOP!

Well-ordering_principle

2) Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms - I just spent the last 5 and 1/2 hours doing my homework . . . After I understood the notation in a class handout, and worked with the algorithms, I think actually have an understanding on the algorithms, one of them being SAPM (Shortest Augmenting Path Method), pretty much an algorithm to find the MAX flow in a graph.  This week we started talking about the Master Method (stay tuned for an update on that!).

Shortest Augmenting Path Algorithm

3) Modern High School Mathematics - Just had an interesting class on how to solve a problem in probability, where the answer relied heavily on Pascal's triangle.

Pascal's Triangle

4) Education & Computers - BEST CLASS EVER!  Still Blogging!!

5) Adolescent Development - Learning about the effects on Adolescents in the school system

6) Honors Colloquium - Had a class reflection on last week's really good presentation on perception.

It was interesting to hear what others thought :).

Off to do more homework, and to a halloween party!  Until next Time All!

Best Regards,

Christopher Ghanem

Entry # 1

Hello Group!,

This is just a quick recap on the classes I am taking and the topics in which I am currently learning about!  Enjoy!! (I'm a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science, just in case anyone forgot :P)

List of Classes / Topics
1) Mathematical Reasoning (Proofs) - Just had an exam, the last thing we learned was proving statements by Induction for Natural Numbers.  I was always so scared of proof by induction, but now that it was properly explained, I actually kind of like it :).

Here are Some Examples!

2) Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms - I was so lost in our last 3 lectures, I can honestly say I have no idea what is going on, other than discussing the optimization of linear programming with respect to Max Flows of graphs.

Probably My most difficult Class. . .

3) Modern High School Mathematics - Learning about how to be a teacher, and how to be a better student.

4) Education & Computers - BEST CLASS EVER!  Currently learning how to Blog!

=]

5) Adolescent Development - Learning about peer groups and the effects of peer groups on Adolescents.

6) Honors Colloquium - Just had a really good presentation on perception, and how we as society value members of our society generally for the wrong reasons.

Susan Boyle

Four out of these six classes I have tomorrow. I'll be on campus virtually from the time I wake up until the time just before I sleep.  I feel like I may have taken on a bit too much this semester -_-.

Best Regards!,
Christopher G.