Three Schools in One Year

So It has been a while since the last post.  December in fact.  I have moved on to the University of North Texas at Dallas to pursue my B.A. in Mathematics w/ a Secondary Teaching Certification.  The first semester there was a bit tough, but I managed to make it through with a 4.0.  My classes were Pre-Calculus and Teaching Diverse Classroom.  I could have bypassed Pre-Calculus with my taking of Trigonometry and AP-Calculus from high school, but it has been over 20 years and I seriously needed the refresher.

My instructor in the Diverse Teaching course was probably the most confrontational professor I have ever had.  I fortunately made it to her good side, but I did have a few good talks with her.  The Pre-Calculus class was probably the smallest I've been in and it had to be specially requested because some of us needed it to move forward in our degree programs.  By the end of the semester there was only 6 of us left.  My time at UNT-Dallas only lasted one semester because of an usual rule in one of their student services departments.  Oh well.

I then went back to Tarrant County College to take Calculus 1 & II during the summer and man was that a crazy idea.  I survived both classes, but feel that if I had taken it during regular semesters I would have done better.  The instructor in this class was a very difficult one as well who was very confrontational as well.  He was not hesitant to fuss at the class almost every day.

This fall I decided to transfer to the University of Texas at Arlington and can I say that the student services there so far are great (professionals and student workers).  They made it very easy to get everything set for the semester.  I was prepared to take the semester off in case I ran out of time, but all good. 

I really like my academic advisor and loved her office.  She did some serious geek decorations which included an entire bookshelf (one shelf actually) full of My Little Pony figures.  My favorite thing she had in the room was a photo that showed the many emotions of Spock (the Vulcan).  For this semester I will be taking Statistical Inference and Calculus III (yes, a third Calculus class).

I hope to do very well at this school and graduate quickly.

Later........