Learn Something New Everyday
October 12, 2005 @ 02:59 PMIt’s true. And so, as I head off to bed, a couple things I’ve learned today:
Sometimes when you check your answers, you do the checking wrong. I had my first math exam today in like 7 years. The first week or two of class was a little touch and go, but I’ve gotten my head back into the college math game I think. That’s not to say that I’m completely comfortable, I’m not… I never was. Math doesn’t come naturally to me. I’m not able to look at numbers and quickly decide what to do with them. BUT, I ENJOY math very much, and I’m capable of keeping up enough to do well.
That said, I think I did very well on my first exam. I double and triple checked my answers, and feel very comfortable almost all. There was one question that was a short answer question.. you can’t check those of course, but I think I did well. Nevertheless, I did discover on TWO occasions during the exam that the answer I came up with the first time I did a problem ended up being correct, but when I checked the answer (by plugging it back into the equation), it didn’t work. It turns out, on both occasions, I was making a mistake during the checking process, not the original problem.
Sometimes bias is warranted. I spent most of today at work learning and working in C#. Being a Java guy, that’s kind of a big deal. And I discovered I really DON’T like C#. Which I could have told you all along, but I had no way of truly knowing before.
So there you go, a couple things I learned today.