midterms so far
Oct. 21st, 2002 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
awhyzipI learned my midterm grade for Anth today: A+. It's been years since I've gotten an A+ -- I thought they weren't allowed to give them out anymore, in college! If it were just an A, I would be satisfied; I know I did A work on that test. The existence of the plus makes me feel like a little kid again, and I need to exult!
Prospects for History of Israel take-home:
due tomorrow -- expected grade: F
no, more realistically: D
Plus I had the great joy of arguing my math professor into upping my score on that midterm from 89 to 90. He took off a point for including too much information in a proof. I say to you: May we all have the problem of too much information in our proofs!
Then again, this is the same professor of whom I hear that he caused a very intelligent and well math-versed friend of mine to fail a significant exemption exam, by taking away partial credit from her on nearly every problem --- because she used "too strong a proof" (strong induction, when weak induction would have sufficed).
In fact, I feel that my proof was all the better for having added the steps to prove that the number by which I chose to multiply given conguence equation was not just ANY number, but dafka the congruence-inverse of some coefficient. He had neglected to make that characteristic explicit when demonstrating the proof in class, and left me baffled for a week. The vindication in winning that point is far sweeter than the grade. :-) more exulation, heh heh
Prospects for History of Israel take-home:
due tomorrow -- expected grade: F
no, more realistically: D
Plus I had the great joy of arguing my math professor into upping my score on that midterm from 89 to 90. He took off a point for including too much information in a proof. I say to you: May we all have the problem of too much information in our proofs!
Then again, this is the same professor of whom I hear that he caused a very intelligent and well math-versed friend of mine to fail a significant exemption exam, by taking away partial credit from her on nearly every problem --- because she used "too strong a proof" (strong induction, when weak induction would have sufficed).
In fact, I feel that my proof was all the better for having added the steps to prove that the number by which I chose to multiply given conguence equation was not just ANY number, but dafka the congruence-inverse of some coefficient. He had neglected to make that characteristic explicit when demonstrating the proof in class, and left me baffled for a week. The vindication in winning that point is far sweeter than the grade. :-) more exulation, heh heh
