Our floor kinda stinks...
Hey Guys,
I don't know if you noticed, but our floor hasn't smelled the greatest lately. So...with that being said, I have a few suggestions that could help remedy that problem:
-Shower on a regular basis.-Don't let your dirty laundry sit around too long. If you still don't know how to use the washing machines downstairs, I would be happy to teach you.
-Throw away old food, especially if it's moldy or rotting. It doesn't hurt to clean out your fridge once in a while. You never know what you might find.
-Keep your door open. Our wing is pretty good about keeping the doors open, but let's make sure we keep that up.
-Open your windows once in a while. I know it's cold, but opening your window wide for ten minutes helps. Or opening your window slightly for an extended period of time helps, too.
-Don't keep garbage in your room that smells bad. Put it in the garbage chute by the drinking fountain.
-Flush the toilets after each assault on porcelain bay.
Now, I'm not saying you guys aren't doing these things. And I'm not even saying that it's our wing that's the problem. BUT, in all fairness, I just think it's best to send these reminders out to everyone. I hope your week is off to a good start. Any questions, comments, or concerns let me know.
David
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Roommates
Nick was eating shredded squid that he brought back from China today. He offered me some an I politely declined...
We also moved his desk today. He decided to bunk his bed earlier this week, but his desk covered up the ladder, so he was climbing on furniture to get into bed, almost always kicking something off as he did. I asked him why he didn't move his desk several times, and eventually (he's far too nice) he said that he didn't want to move it because then his light would be right next to me and he'd keep me up. I assured him that I don't think it will be a problem, and that if it is I will simply turn the other direction.
The other night I came back from a friends room and he asked if I was talking about God (he's noticed that I really like to do that), and I said I did. And he said "why don't you talk about girls sometime", and I said that we did, on account of it being the feast day of St. Agatha. Today I was singing a hymn because I was in one of those moods where you have absolutely no reason to be frustrated but you are, and acting on your foolish feelings only leads you into them being actualized. And Nick asked me if I was happy about a girl. I told him I didn't care about girls and he repeated my styalized "girls" at least 5 times.
We also moved his desk today. He decided to bunk his bed earlier this week, but his desk covered up the ladder, so he was climbing on furniture to get into bed, almost always kicking something off as he did. I asked him why he didn't move his desk several times, and eventually (he's far too nice) he said that he didn't want to move it because then his light would be right next to me and he'd keep me up. I assured him that I don't think it will be a problem, and that if it is I will simply turn the other direction.
The other night I came back from a friends room and he asked if I was talking about God (he's noticed that I really like to do that), and I said I did. And he said "why don't you talk about girls sometime", and I said that we did, on account of it being the feast day of St. Agatha. Today I was singing a hymn because I was in one of those moods where you have absolutely no reason to be frustrated but you are, and acting on your foolish feelings only leads you into them being actualized. And Nick asked me if I was happy about a girl. I told him I didn't care about girls and he repeated my styalized "girls" at least 5 times.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Exam Number 2
In the future a common theme for this blog will be the 9 exams one must take to become a certified actuary. I am currently preparing for number 2 (I haven't taken 1 yet - that's for next year). The second exam is about interest and introductory financial math (i.e. really weird schemes to try to make money... like derivities, and swaps, and who knows what else!).
My professor has supplied my class with 5 past exams. Now, in 2003 they changed the exam so many of the questions are unaplicable, but it is all still quite helpful. Like a true student actuary I made an excel table which has a box for me to check when I successfully answer each question, and also a little formula which calculates how many I've done. Right now I'm 2% way through, after answering 4 questions correctly. I don't know how to do the other 98% yet, but I still have 11.5 weeks of class left... My favorite one so far:
Mike receives cash flows of 100 today, 200 in one year, and 100 in two years. The
present value of these cash flows is 364.46 at an annual effective rate of interest i.
Calculate i.
The answer is about 13%.
A short side comment: it's interesting to note the names the exam uses: Mike, Bruce, Robbie. Not these PC names I'm used to seeing in text books. The world became a considerably weirder place when text books decided it was neccessary to have a Jamal and Carlos in every problem. I digress...
My professor has supplied my class with 5 past exams. Now, in 2003 they changed the exam so many of the questions are unaplicable, but it is all still quite helpful. Like a true student actuary I made an excel table which has a box for me to check when I successfully answer each question, and also a little formula which calculates how many I've done. Right now I'm 2% way through, after answering 4 questions correctly. I don't know how to do the other 98% yet, but I still have 11.5 weeks of class left... My favorite one so far:
Mike receives cash flows of 100 today, 200 in one year, and 100 in two years. The
present value of these cash flows is 364.46 at an annual effective rate of interest i.
Calculate i.
The answer is about 13%.
A short side comment: it's interesting to note the names the exam uses: Mike, Bruce, Robbie. Not these PC names I'm used to seeing in text books. The world became a considerably weirder place when text books decided it was neccessary to have a Jamal and Carlos in every problem. I digress...
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Leisure
Last night (Saturday) I was sitting on my bed doing my Interest Theory homework and Nick (my roommate) walked in and said "you do too much homework". I laughed a bit, because I didn't really think I was doing homework: it was fun! Homework should be drudgery. Boring, unbearable and taxing. But not mathmatics homework... oh no. On Friday I did 2 hours of Calculus homework (even though, to my extreme dismay, we have yet to do any Calculus yet!), and it was by far the highlight of my day.
Some might say that I'm weird, but I have Aristotle on my side:
Hence, ... those arts were discovered which had to do neither with pleasure nor with necessities, and this happened first in those places where men had leisure. That is why it was in Egypt that the mathematical sciences were first developed, for there leisure was available to the priestly caste.
Some might say that I'm weird, but I have Aristotle on my side:
Hence, ... those arts were discovered which had to do neither with pleasure nor with necessities, and this happened first in those places where men had leisure. That is why it was in Egypt that the mathematical sciences were first developed, for there leisure was available to the priestly caste.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Back at School
I think it might be a fun weekly post to tell you one problem I have encountered throught the week in each of my classes.
Calc III (bold letters are vectors): find the norm of a+b if a=<1,5> and b=<3,7>. Answer: 4*sqrt(10)
English 112: Write about something you did to illustarte your current understanding of what it means to be ethical. Describe what happened, what you did, the reasoning of your decision to act (or not act) at that time. Then go on to explain to your reader why it was thical or unethical. Answer
Interest Theory: Your great-great grandpa left you $100 on July 26, 1876. Assuming an effective annual rate of interest 5%, what is his gift worth on January 26, 2010. Answer: $67417.31
MicroEconomics: What is economics? (It is truely a principles course...) Answer:
Economics is a study of how society chooses to manage its scarce human and material resources which have alternative uses, to produce goods and services for present and future consumption.
Accounting: Prepare the StockHolders' Equity section of the balance sheet. Answer: I'll spare you the agony. I got to make a pretty Excel picture at least...
Calc III (bold letters are vectors): find the norm of a+b if a=<1,5> and b=<3,7>. Answer: 4*sqrt(10)
English 112: Write about something you did to illustarte your current understanding of what it means to be ethical. Describe what happened, what you did, the reasoning of your decision to act (or not act) at that time. Then go on to explain to your reader why it was thical or unethical. Answer
Interest Theory: Your great-great grandpa left you $100 on July 26, 1876. Assuming an effective annual rate of interest 5%, what is his gift worth on January 26, 2010. Answer: $67417.31
MicroEconomics: What is economics? (It is truely a principles course...) Answer:
Economics is a study of how society chooses to manage its scarce human and material resources which have alternative uses, to produce goods and services for present and future consumption.
Accounting: Prepare the StockHolders' Equity section of the balance sheet. Answer: I'll spare you the agony. I got to make a pretty Excel picture at least...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Bridge
WARNING: MATHEMATICAL CONTENT!
As I approach my 'toughest' final of the week (a bridge tournament), I thought I'd share some numbers with you.
A bridge hand consists of 13 cards from a standard 52 card deck. There are 635,013,559,600 hands you can be dealt while playing bridge. You would have to play 24,836,748 hands per day to play every bridge hand over the course of 70 years - that's 287 hands per second.
There are 53,644,737,765,488,792,839,237,440,000 possible hands to be played by the whole table. That amounts to 82,472,935,650,000,000,000 hands a second, played since the earth was created around 4.54 billion years ago.
You have a 566,976 times better chance of being struck by lightning than getting a hand with all of one suit. Surprisingly, you are just slightly more likely to be struck by lightning twice than to get this hand.
You have a .2% chance of having all of the aces, a .00017% chance you'll have all the kings to go along with it, and a .00000000006% chance the queens will join the party. If it is any consolation, you have a 98.7% chance of having at least one of those cards.
As I approach my 'toughest' final of the week (a bridge tournament), I thought I'd share some numbers with you.
A bridge hand consists of 13 cards from a standard 52 card deck. There are 635,013,559,600 hands you can be dealt while playing bridge. You would have to play 24,836,748 hands per day to play every bridge hand over the course of 70 years - that's 287 hands per second.
There are 53,644,737,765,488,792,839,237,440,000 possible hands to be played by the whole table. That amounts to 82,472,935,650,000,000,000 hands a second, played since the earth was created around 4.54 billion years ago.
You have a 566,976 times better chance of being struck by lightning than getting a hand with all of one suit. Surprisingly, you are just slightly more likely to be struck by lightning twice than to get this hand.
You have a .2% chance of having all of the aces, a .00017% chance you'll have all the kings to go along with it, and a .00000000006% chance the queens will join the party. If it is any consolation, you have a 98.7% chance of having at least one of those cards.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Figure this one out:
A large sign in the library says:
Looking for a computer?
Go to: http://labs.uwec.edu/OpenSeats/index.asp
You don't have to be a math major to scratch your head at that one...
Looking for a computer?
Go to: http://labs.uwec.edu/OpenSeats/index.asp
You don't have to be a math major to scratch your head at that one...
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