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