Gene B. Kim

I have known Jeremy for a little bit over three years, but we started hanging out a lot in the Fall 2007 semester when we took Real Analysis together. The class was on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:40 - 3:00; however, we started having KFC emergencies. Around October, I introduced Jeremy to the wonderful boneless buffalo wings at Applebee’s. One of the times we went, there wasn’t enough sauce on the wings. So while I was munching on my mozzarella sticks, Jeremy looks at the chicken on his fork and then just dips the wing into my marinara sauce! :O So I was sitting there expecting the usual look of dissatisfaction and the misery that flows through Jeremy’s face. But instead, his face lit up like a christmas tree. So since then, we started ordering boneless buffalo wings with a side of marinara sauce.

We went to Applebee’s for the last time in late July 2008. Unfortunately, at UCLA, the closest Applebee’s is 20 miles away. So while we’re both back in NJ, we decided to go back to our favorite joints, such as White Castle, Dusal’s, and Keum Ho Jung. Anyways, we’re back at Applebee’s last night, and we order two boneless wings with marinara sauce. The waiter gives us a weird look, then disappears into the kitchen. A few minutes later, he comes back and asks us for the story behind the marinara sauce… At this point, we’re just like “great…” Then the waiter told us that the guys in the kitchen asked if the “marinara guys are back?” You know it’s a bad thing when the “cooks” at Applebee’s knows us and the liquor store guys don’t check Jeremy’s ID. Jeremy looks like he’s 15.

Anyways, 5 days left till LA!

This course is going to be so fun! For me. Not for the students. Oh… The students will hate me so much.

Finally, it is over. My first quarter as a graduate student is done with.

The classes were pretty bad. Algebra and topology were things I didn’t really care about that much. Algebra was interesting at first when we were doing category theory, but the interest tapered off during group theory. Topology was just terrible. And combinatorics was mostly everything I knew already. So it felt like I didn’t really learn anything; however, the amount of homework was quite impressive. In algebra, there were 10 HW sets with 10 problems each, and in topology, we had to do 95 problems.

However, teaching was fun. Well, “teaching.” I don’t really know what it is, but dealing with the students were pretty good. I was even convinced to TA Math 32B next quarter, which is the horrible integration part of multivariable calculus. *sigh*

Anyway, hopefully things will get better next quarter.

Final Exam Review Problems

Good luck.

So I’ve learned all I’m going to learn in graduate school in the past month. Recipe for graduate school:

Then…

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