Grad, div, curl of F

So, I am sitting here all alone in my room studying for like the 7 straight hour for my calculus 3 test later this evening, and i have gotten a little bored. Everyone has already left for Thanksgiving break but i will be here until tomorrow morning... Oh well. But i am going over my notes for Calc and i noticed some very funny, disturbing, and quite weird comments i have written down and i want to share them. So here goes. Keep in mind all of these things were said by my professor.

• "The use of r, theta instead of x,y may be advantageous when the integrand (aka the function) and/or the boundary of R are/is most naturally expressed in terms of r, theta." -- Ya sounds fun right?
• He goes through an entire problem then stops after he gets the answer and says "but thats wrong..." --uh... so you showed us what not to do??
• My professor talking about finding the surface area, "this looks horrible and in calculations it is often going to be horrible." -- GREAT!!
• Now he's talking about going from double to triple integrals.... "let's make things worse," after a short laugh from the class... "truthfully." -- doesn't this class sound fun?
• "Line integrals" he does an example, "More line integrals" does another example, "Yet more line integrals" does yet another example.
• "Anticlockwise, or as you Americans say 'counterclockwise'".
• "Spherical polars are just making things worse, so, obviously, choose a different method."

So, basically, this class is a lot of fun.... but good news is after this test i can relax and see my family tomorrow for Thanksgiving break :)

Love ya!

Happy Birthday Mommy!!

So, today Nov 19, is my dear mother's birthday. Unfortunately, I am not there to celebrate with her but I get to see her and the rest of the fam next week for Thanksgiving Break!!
But i just wanted to share a few reasons why i love my mother, Penny:

1. She is always the one to make me and my dad talk to eachother after we are both fighting and both being to stubborn to say we are sorry. She makes us be nice to eachother :)
2. She always encourages me to do my best
3. She puts up with me... haha
4. I love staying up late on weekends watching a chick flick or some other movie with her
5. She always has to deal with me crying and she knows just what to say
6. She loves me no matter what!!
7. She works so hard to make my life better
8. She sends me pictures of the animals at home while i am away at school and cant see them, they make me so happy :)
9. I can talk to her about anything
10. She is so amazing and such a great role model!!

Well, Mom, I love ya!! I wish i could be there to celebrate with you but i hope you have a great Birthday!

See ya in less than a week!!
Love,
Sas
OH AND PS. I MAY ACTUALLY PASS PHYSICS!!!! I HAVE A SOLID C RIGHT NOW AND SO I JUST NEED TO DO GOOD ON THE FINAL AND I WILL PASS THE CLASS!!! I AM SOOOOO FREAKING EXCITED!!!

Vernier Spectometer Instrument

Well, not much new to report. I have been super busy with school and what not recently. Lots of tests and lots and lots and lots of homework and studying. I also had to make my schedule for next semester and it is just stressing me out more. Too much to do and not enough time to do it. But good news about my next semester schedule is that i get to register with the sophomore class instead of with the freshman class at the last possible time slot. So instead of registering on Friday Nov 20 at 4:30 i get to register Thurs Nov 19 at 4:30!! Gotta love AP credit. Thats why i took so many AP classes in high school to get ahead. Helping now and making me feel a little less stressed. But if i thought this semester was hard next semester is going to be worse. :( but whatever it will all be worth it when i leave this school with a job and making tons of money :). In what little time i have had to think and breathe, i have been pretty much relaxing and catchin up on some sleep. thus, the blog was put a little bit on the back burner. Oh and in the past few weeks i decided that i hate vernier spectrometer instruments that i have to use in chem lab, i hate physics studio and lon-capa, and that i am excited to see my family in a couple weeks for Thanksgiving. luckily, i didnt have to use the vernier spectrometer instrument again this week in chem lab so this week's lab went much more smoothly. I have also realized how much i miss basketball. I have played a couple times in the past few weeks and it was so fun. I think i forgot how much of my time basketball took up and now that it is basketball season again, and i am not playing, it is like there is a hole. However as much as i miss it, i dont know that i would be able to handle playing on a team right now just because of the work load of this school. But i will keep playing just for fun. Also i decided that having your birthday not only during the week of finals but in between the two days i have finals, SUCKS. So my birthday is going to consist of me studying for finals, how fun. :( But on a happier note, i am now an initiated member of Sigma Kappa! thats fun. but i cant tell you about it. so dont ask. well those are my thoughts of the day. hope you enjoyed my ranting, complaining, and random thoughts.