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bayareabadger

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« Reply #6790 on: July 09, 2021, 01:06:07 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 09, 2021, 01:01:14 PM
I was pretty lucky in Madison. Sure, there were some "book guys" and resentful "research guys", but most of my professors were actually good engineers and teachers.

Many of them even held the P.E. license, which I believe is pretty rare.
Researchers are always tricky. Part of the reason my math career came to an end as a particularly research heavy calculus teacher. Either that or calculus three really was mostly about infinite dimension calculus
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« Reply #6791 on: July 09, 2021, 01:21:15 PM »
We had a professor at UNC, little German guy, pretty famous, named Eliel.  He was the "Big Gun" in the department, but far.  And also consistently voted best teacher by the undergrads, who had no idea who he was.

I never had him for a class, we didn't take that many classes anyway, but he was on my committee (of five).

He didn't nail me in my orals at least.

Orals could end badly, and often did.
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« Reply #6792 on: July 09, 2021, 02:21:14 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on July 09, 2021, 01:06:07 PM
Researchers are always tricky. Part of the reason my math career came to an end as a particularly research heavy calculus teacher. Either that or calculus three really was mostly about infinite dimension calculus
Our TA for multivariate calc at Purdue sounded exactly like Stephen Hawking's computer when he spoke... 

We had a 12 year old in that class. He had his mom drop him off and pick him after class. 
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« Reply #6793 on: July 09, 2021, 02:49:12 PM »
I took all the pre-req classes at the community college I often talk about here. Small classes, great teachers.

The DiffEQ guy was out of his gourd smart but he was pretty cool.
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« Reply #6794 on: July 09, 2021, 03:21:32 PM »
My DiffEQ prof was a wacky old professor type.  Really great teacher, but sometimes just forgot to come to class to teach. 

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« Reply #6795 on: July 09, 2021, 04:41:22 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 09, 2021, 03:21:32 PM
My DiffEQ prof was a wacky old professor type.  Really great teacher, but sometimes just forgot to come to class to teach.


He was too busy inventing the flux capacitor 
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« Reply #6796 on: July 09, 2021, 05:12:37 PM »
I took DiffEq, is was the fourth quarter of calculus, and the professor's son was in the class. 

The son was 15.

I don't remember much of anything of calculus.
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« Reply #6797 on: July 09, 2021, 05:50:30 PM »
My legs are barking a bit this evening.  I'm going to treat with wine.

I've been rereading the Hornblower series.  It's 70°F right now, headed to the deck, might get chilled.
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« Reply #6798 on: July 09, 2021, 05:52:32 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 09, 2021, 05:50:30 PM
My legs are barking a bit this evening.  I'm going to treat with wine.

I've been rereading the Hornblower series.  It's 70°F right now, headed to the deck, might get chilled.
sounds like beer time to me
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« Reply #6799 on: July 09, 2021, 08:34:09 PM »
High of 80 today, cloudy and cool breeze.  Decent rain.  Pretty much unheard of for Austin on July 9th.

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« Reply #6800 on: July 09, 2021, 08:48:45 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 09, 2021, 08:34:09 PM
High of 80 today, cloudy and cool breeze.  Decent rain.  Pretty much unheard of for Austin on July 9th.


It's broke 90 one time this year... that'll change, no doubt, but it's unheard of otherwise. 

Elsa passed through yesterday, and has a bit more of a blower than anyone expected.  Maybe 30mph gust and sustained 10 perhaps, but its only the second July storm I can recall.  

I'm not complaining.  Super easy year so far.  
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« Reply #6801 on: July 09, 2021, 09:53:00 PM »
Went running in the humidity. This was not ideal. 
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« Reply #6802 on: July 09, 2021, 09:55:35 PM »
sat in my recliner for a 2 hour nap today

I managed to get through it ok
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« Reply #6803 on: July 09, 2021, 09:56:50 PM »
Quote from: Drew4UTk on July 09, 2021, 08:48:45 PM
It's broke 90 one time this year... that'll change, no doubt, but it's unheard of otherwise.

Elsa passed through yesterday, and has a bit more of a blower than anyone expected.  Maybe 30mph gust and sustained 10 perhaps, but its only the second July storm I can recall. 

I'm not complaining.  Super easy year so far. 

Yup, I'm not sure we've broken 100 this year at all, if so it was only briefly on one day.  Normally we'd have had a dozen 100+ days by now.

I have no doubt it's coming.
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