Well I made it through the first week of class. Things have started out pretty slowly, so it’s hard to get a sense of how much work things will be, but my schedule seems to work out decently at the moment. Graph theory has been mostly review of what I learned in Combinatorics, but we’re quickly approaching the boundaries of my knowledge, and I’m interested in seeing what we cover next.

I think that Analysis may actually my best class, despite the fact that I was least enthusiastic about it at the beginning. The professor is very organized and I know a lot of people in the class. I’m still a bit frightened at the prospect of having to remember calculus, but I’m cautiously optimistic that the class will be good.

My probability class only has three people in it, but the professor says he will teach it anyway. (Technically a class can be dropped if it has fewer than six). It seems like it will be fairly easy. I’m sure the math will get harder, but the professor seems inclined to go over lots of example problems, which is something of a rarity in upper level math.

Unfornately Bioinformatics was something of a disappointment. The subject seems really interesting, but the first lecture was just not very good. The professor started off by talking about methods for sequence alignment, but he failed to adequately define what sequence alignment is and the entire class was pretty lost. It wasn’t that the subject was too hard, the professor just didn’t present it very well. There was also talk of moving the class to Wednesday at 8:00 am, which would mean I would have 9 consecutive hours of class on Wednesdays. I’ll definitely go to a few more classes and see if I can follow them better once I’ve read more of the book, but if things don’t improve I’ll drop the class.

Anyway, that was pretty much my week. I’m kind of frustrated about the bio class, but other than that I think that things will turn out okay. I’ll post again regarding my non-math activities before too long, but they were pretty limited last week, so you didn’t miss too much.