Monday, October 16, 2006

So I thought I should tell you about an experience I had earlier in the term. Gather round kiddies, it's story time.

So I was thinking of doing Economics as a minor for my degree (not so sure anymore). So I signed up for a class I would need to make that happen, it was ECON 329 which is called "Introduction to Mathematical Economics." Interesting huh? Well so anyways, the prerequisites were only the basic level macro and micro courses (plus MTH 241, which I took), so I thought I should be prepared right? Wrong.

I walk in, the class has capacity for 30 people but only 12 have signed up. Hmmm, so I sit down and look around, I don't recognize anyone, everyone seems kind of intense. Turns out they combined the graduate and undergraduates course into one, and most the people in there were graduates.

So the teacher comes in and gives his introduction. Was a nice enough guy. Then he gets started. Oh. Dear. God.

He's using some weird ass form of calculus to make a proof (wtf is that) of some random shit economic model I don't get, everyone is nodding and rolling their eyes like, duh. Turns out most of them were graduate math majors. By now I'm flipping out because there's no way in hell I belong in here.

After doing that and seeing the four of us undergrads were about to shit our pants he goes on to talk about how our midterms will be easier and stuff and he won't expect as much out of us, but still, we'll have to learn everything the grads do and be prepared to "work your ass off." Yeah, no. Bye.

Literally five minutes after that class was over I got on a library computer and dropped that class faster than Zach Randolph runs after a cheeseburger. Ended up I replaced it with an introductory Political Science course to get some credits and its turned out to be really interesting, albeit a lot of work in itself (but at least I'll get an A probably).

So yeah, that's my story. Just wish I would have had a picture of me when he was doing that proof on the board (it took up FOUR CHALKBOARDS)... it was priceless. Basically I looked like a deer in highlights with my mouth gaping open. Good times.

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