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.

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...