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Title: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: jinxmchue on August 05, 2008, 01:36:26 PM
Identify yourselves, nerds.   :tongue:  No, seriously,  please.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: asdf2231 on August 05, 2008, 01:39:23 PM
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Seriously... There are Pill Bugs out there with more mathmatical abilities than me.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Chris_ on August 05, 2008, 01:49:26 PM
Is this for nerds who are math wizzes, or just math wizzes.  Because I'm just a plain old nerd who isn't any good at math.

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Seriously... There are Pill Bugs out there with more mathmatical abilities than me.

What he said.   :lmao:
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Lord Undies on August 05, 2008, 01:53:26 PM
I do ok as long as it ain't some big numbers like 14 or something. 

Wizz on math.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Chris_ on August 05, 2008, 02:01:58 PM
Somebody call for geeks to sound off?

GeekSix present and accounted for!
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: debk on August 05, 2008, 06:59:33 PM
What do you want to talk about Jinx?
Fourier Series?
Cepstral Analysis?
Kepplerian Orbital Physics?
Predictive/Adaptive filtering?
Groups, Rings and Fields?
Toeplitz matrix inversion techniques?

oooh...oooh...oooh.....I know what rings are.....diamond, emerald, ruby, sapphires are all quite nice.... :-)


sorry couldn't help it.....I have a family of engineers and I can't balance my checkbook with a calculator.... :banghead:
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Rick on August 05, 2008, 07:07:53 PM
Fibonacci
Koken
Or polynomial's?
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Chris_ on August 05, 2008, 07:15:53 PM
Once upon a time (1/t) pretty little Polly Nomial was strolling across a field of vectors when she came to the boundary of a singularly large matrix. Now Polly was convergent, and her mother had made it an absolute condition that she must never, ever enter such an array without her brackets on. Polly, however, who had changed her variables that morning and was feeling particularly badly behaved, ignored this condition on the basis that it was insufficient, and made her way in amongst the complex elements.

Rows and columns closed in on her from all sides. Tangents approached her surface, and she became tenser and tenser. Quite suddenly, two branches of a hyperbola touched her at a single point. She oscillated violently, became unstable, lost all sense of directrix, tripped over a square root that was protruding from the erf, and plunged headlong down a steep gradient. She was completely divergent by the time she reached the turning point. When she rounded off once more, she found herself inverted, apparently alone in a non-euclidean space.

She was being watched, however. That smooth operator, Curly Pi, was lurking inner product. As his eyes devoured her curvilinear coordinates, a singular expression crossed his face. He wondered, was she convergent? He decided to integrate improperly at once.

Hearing a common fraction behind her, Polly rotated and saw Curly Pi approaching with his lower series extended. She could see at once his degenerate conic and his dissipative terms, and knew he was irrational. "Arcsinh!" she gasped.

"Hey, what's your sine?" he asked. "What a symmetric set of asymptotes you have!"

"Stay away from me!" she protested. "I haven't got any brackets on!"

"Calm yourself, my dear!" said the smooth operator.. "Your fears are purely imaginary."

"i, i, ..." she thought, "Perhaps he's not normal, but homologous."

"What order are you?" the brute suddenly demanded.

"Seventeen," replied Polly.

Curly leered, "I suppose you've never been operated upon?"

"Of course not. I'm absolutely convergent!" Polly replied quite properly.

"Come on," said Curly: "Let's go to decimal place I know of, and I'll take you to the limit."

"Never!" gasped Polly..

"Abscissa!" he swore a violent oath. Coshing her over the coefficient with a log until she was powerless, Curly removed her discontinuities. He stared at her significant places, and began smoothing her points of inflection. Poor Polly Nomial! The algorithm method was now her only hope. She felt him approaching her asymptotic limit. Her convergence would soon be gone forever. There was no mercy; Curly was a heavy side operator. His radius squared itself and Polly's loci quivered. He integrated by parts. He integrated by partial fractions. After he cofactored, he performed Runge-Kutta on her. He even went all the way around and did a contour integration. Curly went on operating until he satisfied her hypotheses, then he exponentiated and became completely orthogonal.

When Polly got home that night, her mother noticed that she was no longer piecewise continuous, but had been truncated in several places. But it was too late to differentiate now. As the months went by, Polly's denominator increased monotonically. Finally, they took her to L'Hopital and generated a small but pathological function which left surds all over the place and drove Polly to deviation.

The moral of this tale is: "If you want to keep your expressions convergent, never allow them a single degree of freedom."

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Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 06, 2008, 02:55:28 PM
I'm decent at it, but very rusty with anything like analytical geometry or trig.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Miss Mia on August 06, 2008, 07:11:46 PM
Anyone really good at algebra?


Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: TheSarge on August 06, 2008, 07:15:43 PM
Anyone really good at algebra?




Whoops! I wandered into a smart persons thread.

My bad  :uhsure:
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Miss Mia on August 06, 2008, 07:19:14 PM
Anyone really good at algebra?




Whoops! I wandered into a smart persons thread.

My bad  :uhsure:



I'm just looking for who I can hit up for help next month when I start College Algebra again.  :)
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: TheSarge on August 06, 2008, 07:20:39 PM
If you find someone Mia let me know.

That is still looming on the horizon for me.

Algebra II was as far as I got in High School.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: terry on August 06, 2008, 08:22:31 PM
My BS is in math, but I'm not that crazy about it these days.

One day Jesus said to his disciples, “The kingdom of heaven is like three x squared plus five x minus four.”  And while Thomas did some math in his head Peter asked John, “What is he talking about?” and John replied.  “Don’t worry it is just one of his parabolas
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: jtyangel on August 06, 2008, 08:33:20 PM
Anyone really good at algebra?




Whoops! I wandered into a smart persons thread.

My bad  :uhsure:



I'm just looking for who I can hit up for help next month when I start College Algebra again.  :)

Aced college algebra twice, sweetie. I'm rusty, but usually can pick it up quick again. I'll do what I can.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Miss Mia on August 06, 2008, 08:35:32 PM
Anyone really good at algebra?




Whoops! I wandered into a smart persons thread.

My bad  :uhsure:



I'm just looking for who I can hit up for help next month when I start College Algebra again.  :)

Aced college algebra twice, sweetie. I'm rusty, but usually can pick it up quick again. I'll do what I can.

I think as long as I actually go to class and do the homework I'll be okay.  That's what was lacking the last time I took it many years ago.   :uhsure:
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: jtyangel on August 06, 2008, 08:36:24 PM
Anyone really good at algebra?




Whoops! I wandered into a smart persons thread.

My bad  :uhsure:



I'm just looking for who I can hit up for help next month when I start College Algebra again.  :)

Aced college algebra twice, sweetie. I'm rusty, but usually can pick it up quick again. I'll do what I can.

I think as long as I actually go to class and do the homework I'll be okay.  That's what was lacking the last time I took it many years ago.   :uhsure:

bahahaha...yeah, I hear you...I had those same 'issues' :uhsure:
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Toastedturningtidelegs on August 06, 2008, 08:53:35 PM
Identify yourselves, nerds.   :tongue:  No, seriously,  please.
Heh,Heh! you said whiz....Ok I'll leave now! :-)
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: jtyangel on August 06, 2008, 09:03:56 PM
Identify yourselves, nerds.   :tongue:  No, seriously,  please.
Heh,Heh! you said whiz....Ok I'll leave now! :-)

Be gone...leave us geeks to our stuff :-)(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7091/blankop2.gif)
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Toastedturningtidelegs on August 06, 2008, 09:07:28 PM
Identify yourselves, nerds.   :tongue:  No, seriously,  please.
Heh,Heh! you said whiz....Ok I'll leave now! :-)

Be gone...leave us geeks to our stuff :-)(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7091/blankop2.gif)
Giggity,Giggity........Giggity goo! :-)
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: EastFacingNorth on August 06, 2008, 09:46:41 PM
Looks like I'm late for the party.

Not to worry though, I brought non-orientable manifolds!!!

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Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: EastFacingNorth on August 06, 2008, 09:50:22 PM
What do you want to talk about Jinx?
Fourier Series?
Cepstral Analysis?
Kepplerian Orbital Physics?
Predictive/Adaptive filtering?
Groups, Rings and Fields?
Toeplitz matrix inversion techniques?

No category theory?
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: EastFacingNorth on August 06, 2008, 09:54:32 PM
My BS is in math, but I'm not that crazy about it these days.

One day Jesus said to his disciples, “The kingdom of heaven is like three x squared plus five x minus four.”  And while Thomas did some math in his head Peter asked John, “What is he talking about?” and John replied.  “Don’t worry it is just one of his parabolas

Been a while since I've taken any sort of analytic geometry, but I'm pretty sure you need two vars to describe a parabola.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: EastFacingNorth on August 06, 2008, 10:00:46 PM
Anyone really good at algebra?




Whoops! I wandered into a smart persons thread.

My bad  :uhsure:



I'm just looking for who I can hit up for help next month when I start College Algebra again.  :)

I tutored my mom in it last fall, and I'll be tutoring my boss this fall, so I can throw a little help your way if need be.

Stick with me, and you'll amaze your professor by submitting proofs of the concepts your fellow students are struggling with.  :-)
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Miss Mia on August 06, 2008, 10:03:14 PM
Anyone really good at algebra?




Whoops! I wandered into a smart persons thread.

My bad  :uhsure:



I'm just looking for who I can hit up for help next month when I start College Algebra again.  :)

I tutored my mom in it last fall, and I'll be tutoring my boss this fall, so I can throw a little help your way if need be.

Stick with me, and you'll amaze your professor by submitting proofs of the concepts your fellow students are struggling with.  :-)


Woo Hoo!!!   :-)
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Chris_ on August 06, 2008, 10:11:23 PM
What do you want to talk about Jinx?
Fourier Series?
Cepstral Analysis?
Kepplerian Orbital Physics?
Predictive/Adaptive filtering?
Groups, Rings and Fields?
Toeplitz matrix inversion techniques?

No category theory?
No Relational Theory?
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: EastFacingNorth on August 06, 2008, 10:23:19 PM
What do you want to talk about Jinx?
Fourier Series?
Cepstral Analysis?
Kepplerian Orbital Physics?
Predictive/Adaptive filtering?
Groups, Rings and Fields?
Toeplitz matrix inversion techniques?

No category theory?
No Relational Theory?


Are we talking physics and philosophy, or computer science?  I know a wee bit about the former, very little about the latter.

Or do you mean relations as per algebra?  I've never heard the term "relational theory" in that context but then again, I'm still a lowly undergrad.  :-)

Or if you were referring directly to my query about category theory, I guess you'd mean functors and the like? :confused:
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Chris_ on August 06, 2008, 11:22:37 PM
What do you want to talk about Jinx?
Fourier Series?
Cepstral Analysis?
Kepplerian Orbital Physics?
Predictive/Adaptive filtering?
Groups, Rings and Fields?
Toeplitz matrix inversion techniques?

No category theory?
No Relational Theory?


Are we talking physics and philosophy, or computer science?  I know a wee bit about the former, very little about the latter.

Or do you mean relations as per algebra?  I've never heard the term "relational theory" in that context but then again, I'm still a lowly undergrad.  :-)

Or if you were referring directly to my query about category theory, I guess you'd mean functors and the like? :confused:

The latter -- the Relational Model as defined by E.F. Codd and given substance by Chris Date. 

Codd wrote his original paper in 1968 and it was one of the most influential papers on computing ever written.  Date's monthly column in Database Programming and Design through the 80's defined how the model works.  All these years later I am still working on relvars TweedleDee and TweeedleDum.

And don't get me started on 2VL vs. 3VL.

I find it sad many/most in my profession don't understand any of the theory behind their profession (perhaps, more accurately, avocation).
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: debk on August 07, 2008, 08:47:42 AM
Mia....I managed to pass Statistics....only because I never missed class, not because I knew anything. My prof told me he felt sorry for me, it was a required course for my major, but I would probably never use it and by giving me a D, I didn't have to retake it.

Though now days, since you can use programmable calculators, you will do fine.....my daugther aced all her college math classes...she will admit it was because of her calculator.

When I was in school....we had to use an abacus.  ::) 

(not really....but we did have to use a slide rule...which is an invention of the devil! :banghead:)
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 07, 2008, 09:24:16 AM
Anyone really good at algebra?




Whoops! I wandered into a smart persons thread.

My bad  :uhsure:



I'm just looking for who I can hit up for help next month when I start College Algebra again.  :)

Aced college algebra twice, sweetie. I'm rusty, but usually can pick it up quick again. I'll do what I can.

I think as long as I actually go to class and do the homework I'll be okay.  That's what was lacking the last time I took it many years ago.   :uhsure:

That was the essence of my problem with integral calculus.

 :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: BlueStateSaint on August 07, 2008, 09:37:06 AM
In calculus, I was calclueless. :tongue:
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Miss Mia on August 07, 2008, 09:59:12 AM
Mia....I managed to pass Statistics....only because I never missed class, not because I knew anything. My prof told me he felt sorry for me, it was a required course for my major, but I would probably never use it and by giving me a D, I didn't have to retake it.

Though now days, since you can use programmable calculators, you will do fine.....my daugther aced all her college math classes...she will admit it was because of her calculator.

When I was in school....we had to use an abacus.  ::) 

(not really....but we did have to use a slide rule...which is an invention of the devil! :banghead:)


Eventually down the road I have to take two statistics courses.  :(  Gotta pass the damned college algebra first!
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Miss Mia on August 07, 2008, 10:35:38 AM
What's a "Rhinocerus"?


Click where it says "bloodninja" It's the 5th "story" down.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: debk on August 07, 2008, 12:18:21 PM
Mia....I managed to pass Statistics....only because I never missed class, not because I knew anything. My prof told me he felt sorry for me, it was a required course for my major, but I would probably never use it and by giving me a D, I didn't have to retake it.

Though now days, since you can use programmable calculators, you will do fine.....my daugther aced all her college math classes...she will admit it was because of her calculator.

When I was in school....we had to use an abacus.  ::) 

(not really....but we did have to use a slide rule...which is an invention of the devil! :banghead:)


Eventually down the road I have to take two statistics courses.  :(  Gotta pass the damned college algebra first!

Mia....my daughter was so/so in math in high school. In college, she had to take algebra, 2 statistics, calculus, and she also took 2 accounting classes....she aced them all. I was so worried when she had to do the statistics....I was soooo proud of her.

Get a really good calculator. I'm sure someone here can recommend one. I know her's was around a $120 several years ago when she got it. It got her through all her math classes in college and her radiology tech program.

She had study groups with a couple of hers, and I know she went to them alot (she was living at home until she was about 24)....especially before tests or exams.

You will do great!!!!
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: EastFacingNorth on August 07, 2008, 12:53:00 PM
Mia....I managed to pass Statistics....only because I never missed class, not because I knew anything. My prof told me he felt sorry for me, it was a required course for my major, but I would probably never use it and by giving me a D, I didn't have to retake it.

Though now days, since you can use programmable calculators, you will do fine.....my daugther aced all her college math classes...she will admit it was because of her calculator.

When I was in school....we had to use an abacus.  ::) 

(not really....but we did have to use a slide rule...which is an invention of the devil! :banghead:)


Eventually down the road I have to take two statistics courses.  :(  Gotta pass the damned college algebra first!

Mia....my daughter was so/so in math in high school. In college, she had to take algebra, 2 statistics, calculus, and she also took 2 accounting classes....she aced them all. I was so worried when she had to do the statistics....I was soooo proud of her.

Get a really good calculator. I'm sure someone here can recommend one. I know her's was around a $120 several years ago when she got it. It got her through all her math classes in college and her radiology tech program.

She had study groups with a couple of hers, and I know she went to them alot (she was living at home until she was about 24)....especially before tests or exams.

If you can afford it and if your courses allow it, you'll want a TI-89 calculator.  If/when you take calculus, you'll be glad to have it.



For college algebra, however, all you'll need (and all you'll likely be allowed to use, if calculators are permitted at all) is a standard scientific calculator.  You'll probably spend around $20 on one of those, although like anything else, you might find a good deal somewhere.  Just make sure it's a scientific calculator - the standard type doesn't have all the functions that you'll need, nor do they follow order of operations.
You will do great!!!!
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Miss Mia on August 07, 2008, 01:11:26 PM
Mia....I managed to pass Statistics....only because I never missed class, not because I knew anything. My prof told me he felt sorry for me, it was a required course for my major, but I would probably never use it and by giving me a D, I didn't have to retake it.

Though now days, since you can use programmable calculators, you will do fine.....my daugther aced all her college math classes...she will admit it was because of her calculator.

When I was in school....we had to use an abacus.  ::) 

(not really....but we did have to use a slide rule...which is an invention of the devil! :banghead:)


Eventually down the road I have to take two statistics courses.  :(  Gotta pass the damned college algebra first!

Mia....my daughter was so/so in math in high school. In college, she had to take algebra, 2 statistics, calculus, and she also took 2 accounting classes....she aced them all. I was so worried when she had to do the statistics....I was soooo proud of her.

Get a really good calculator. I'm sure someone here can recommend one. I know her's was around a $120 several years ago when she got it. It got her through all her math classes in college and her radiology tech program.

She had study groups with a couple of hers, and I know she went to them alot (she was living at home until she was about 24)....especially before tests or exams.

If you can afford it and if your courses allow it, you'll want a TI-89 calculator.  If/when you take calculus, you'll be glad to have it.



For college algebra, however, all you'll need (and all you'll likely be allowed to use, if calculators are permitted at all) is a standard scientific calculator.  You'll probably spend around $20 on one of those, although like anything else, you might find a good deal somewhere.  Just make sure it's a scientific calculator - the standard type doesn't have all the functions that you'll need, nor do they follow order of operations.
You will do great!!!!


I think I still have a fancy calculator around the house somewhere. 

At work I use a printing calculator, I don't think that one will cut it.  LOL
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Zeus on August 07, 2008, 01:45:15 PM
Identify yourselves, nerds.   :tongue:  No, seriously,  please.

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Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: debk on August 07, 2008, 05:18:20 PM
I was surprised at the calculator she was allowed to use. It had one of those 2x1.5" or so screens on it.

I know they are much less now....kind of like everything else. The calculator she had was the one required for the course.

Wonder if the prof got a cut from the company?
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Thor on August 07, 2008, 11:51:54 PM
Hell, I remember when the TI-51 was the "cat's meow" when it came out........ oh shit, I've dated myself !!! :o
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Chris_ on August 07, 2008, 11:53:07 PM
:rofl: My graphing calculator is a TI-83, and I know it's not new.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Chris_ on August 08, 2008, 12:37:45 AM
Hell, I remember when the TI-51 was the "cat's meow" when it came out........ oh shit, I've dated myself !!! :o

If you can't program it with Hollerith cards then it is newfangled.

But you get bonus points if it can do paper tape output.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: debk on August 08, 2008, 08:57:24 AM
When I started real estate in early '97, someone gave me a new calculator that was specifically geared to real estate. It supposedly figures out mortgage payments over 30 years and multitudes of other stuff.

I couldn't understand the directions.  :thatsright:

Wonder where I put that thing?
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 08, 2008, 09:10:00 AM
Whippersnappers, the Post Versalog was the calculating device of choice when I was a freshman.  How many of you know what that was?

 :bawl:
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: EastFacingNorth on August 08, 2008, 09:15:18 AM
Whippersnappers, the Post Versalog was the calculating device of choice when I was a freshman.  How many of you know what that was?

 :bawl:

A slide rule - I only know because my Uncle John gave me his.  He knows I love geek paraphanalia.   :-)
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 08, 2008, 09:18:14 AM
Whippersnappers, the Post Versalog was the calculating device of choice when I was a freshman.  How many of you know what that was?

 :bawl:

A slide rule - I only know because my Uncle John gave me his.  He knows I love geek paraphanalia.   :-)

Right you are, lad!  Calculators had swept the field by the time I graduated, but very few people had the machines and they were expensive as Hell when I started college.
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: Miss Mia on August 08, 2008, 09:28:26 AM
:rofl: My graphing calculator is a TI-83, and I know it's not new.


I think that's the one I have somewhere.  I'll probably end up having to buy a new one. 
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: debk on August 08, 2008, 09:42:23 AM
Whippersnappers, the Post Versalog was the calculating device of choice when I was a freshman.  How many of you know what that was?

 :bawl:


That's what I had too......device of the devil....I hated that thing!!!! :censored: And it was the only choice all 4 years I was in college too.... :bawl:
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 08, 2008, 10:23:27 AM
Whippersnappers, the Post Versalog was the calculating device of choice when I was a freshman.  How many of you know what that was?

 :bawl:


That's what I had too......device of the devil....I hated that thing!!!! :censored: And it was the only choice all 4 years I was in college too.... :bawl:

Fortunately (in a sense) my lack of dedication to classroom attendance eventually meant that I never had to learn to use it to its full capabilities, and I finished up with a BA with a double major in Crim and Soc, instead of a BS in Engineering. 
Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: debk on August 08, 2008, 10:35:59 AM
Whippersnappers, the Post Versalog was the calculating device of choice when I was a freshman.  How many of you know what that was?

 :bawl:


That's what I had too......device of the devil....I hated that thing!!!! :censored: And it was the only choice all 4 years I was in college too.... :bawl:

Fortunately (in a sense) my lack of dedication to classroom attendance eventually meant that I never had to learn to use it to its full capabilities, and I finished up with a BA with a double major in Crim and Soc, instead of a BS in Engineering. 

And why I ended up with a BA with a major in Sociology with a concentration in Criminal Justice, minors in Psych and Anthropology instead of a BS in Medical Technology.

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Title: Re: Math whizzes check in here
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 08, 2008, 12:06:07 PM
Whippersnappers, the Post Versalog was the calculating device of choice when I was a freshman.  How many of you know what that was?

 :bawl:


That's what I had too......device of the devil....I hated that thing!!!! :censored: And it was the only choice all 4 years I was in college too.... :bawl:

Fortunately (in a sense) my lack of dedication to classroom attendance eventually meant that I never had to learn to use it to its full capabilities, and I finished up with a BA with a double major in Crim and Soc, instead of a BS in Engineering. 

And why I ended up with a BA with a major in Sociology with a concentration in Criminal Justice, minors in Psych and Anthropology instead of a BS in Medical Technology.

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I learned my lesson after the first two years, but I didn't want to do the Walk of Shame to go back and re-do, plus there would've been a massive money issue.  Got the BA at the non-Engineering State U in my home town, then went Army enlisted combat arms for four years, and went to Law School after that (made cum laude there, by the skin of my teeth but it still counts).  So overall everything worked out pretty well in the long run.  In fact, despite the occasional temporary reversal of fortune, I've found everything has always ultimately worked out pretty well as long as I kept my wits about me and looked ahead instead of behind.

 :cheersmate: