Gene B. Kim

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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This is the best day of my life. Well. Not really.

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So finally, I came to realize that I probably shouldn’t take 26 units my first quarter. This revelation came when I was sitting in analysis, and then I heard a loud grumbling noise. Running through my mind: “Damn it, I’m fucking starving. I guess I can eat if I drop geometry… I guess I will.” So I dropped geometry and added the combinatorics reading group. I’m down to 24 units.

Well, so far I finished four days at UCLA. So as I used to do, I will post comments about my classes:

Math 210A - Algebra
The professor is pretty good at teaching, but one thing I will hold against him is he started out with categories. Categories aren’t really that bad; in fact, they are somewhat intuitive. Maybe I’m just getting old. But it looks like I’ll actually enjoy the material for once… I say that now; I’ll probably hate it once we get to rings.

Math 218A - Probabilistic Methods
This course is really good. Benny is really good, and of course, the material is pretty interesting to me. But it seems that the psets in this class will be as tough, if not more, as Van Vu’s psets. Sounds like work. D= 

Math 225A - Differential Topology
Well, we haven’t really done anything in this class. The professor, for the first two lectures, have just gone over the results that we’ll eventually go over (I think), such as Smale’s H-Cobordant Theorem. Except, it’s apparently pronounced “smells etch cobohdahn seeorem”. The book (Differential Topology by Guillemin/Pollack) seems terrible. Hopefully I’ll survive through the course. Oh, and the professor still haven’t really defined what a manifold, a homeomorphism, a diffeomorphism, or a smooth structure is. Good times.

Math 226A - Riemannian Geometry
I’ve always been a fan of geometry. The lecturer seems good, but he still hasn’t really rigorously proved anything. But the course shows promise.

Math 245A - Real Analysis
Uh. This is probably the most painful class. The material’s been pretty much dumbed down for retards. The pace of the class kills me, and this will probably the first class I skip if I ever do. HAHAHAHA. 

How can I leave out…

Math 32 - Calculus of Several Variables
So I never went to recitations (called discussion sessions here) when I was an undergrad. It seems like the guy running those has no idea what he’s doing and just does the homework requests that the students put out. And he seems pretty awkward… and hot. Oh wait, that’s me.

Um yeah… Prof. Thomas has been bothering me to learn how to use latex. A lot. And Charlie has informed me that wp supports latex! So maybe (I emphasize that word) I’ll start learning how to use latex…

$latex \int_0^1 xdx$

Well. This thing hates me.