Fitness and Midterms

Hey guys,
Now that my season's over, I've been trying to stay in shape by running with my roommate 3x/week. We started off on a program that had us alternating jogging 10mins and walking 5mins. It seems kind of lame at first because people see you walking and are like umm...cool...But we've been increasing our mileage and did 4miles in 36:00 (9mins/mile), so that's a reasonable pace and distance. Wednesday we'll do 3 miles and Friday we'll go back to 4 miles. Then we'll do 4, 5, 4, then 5, 5, 5. I haven't ever really focused on getting in really fit so it'll be nice to do so for once. I'm not sure when we'll stop adding miles (10 miles seems insane to me at the moment, but I'm sure if we just keep adding steadily it'll be fine by the time we get there).

On a different note, the second round of midterms are hitting me over the course of the next week and it's gonna be brutal. Math pset due yesterday, math midterm on thurs, phil paper due next tuesday, applied math midterm and pset due on the following wednesday (a week from tmrw). What kind of professor has a midterm on the same day a problem set is due. For those who don't think this is a huge deal, this class takes up about 70% of my hw time and an average problem set takes up like 15 hours. Oh, did I mention this is the non-honors version of the class? That's right.

I found a cool major called mathematical econ. It's basically a few classes short of a math major and a few classes short of an econ major and generally pretty badass. Unfortunately, my school doesn't do grade with + or - so it's just A/B/C/No Credit. I have an A- in both of my math classes at the moment which is good but sort of stress-inducing because it's so easy to drop to a B+ which actually = B. Basically if I get 90 or above, I'll get points added to my grade (cuz I'm not getting 95+) and if I get 89 or below I'm getting points taken away (cuz I'm not gonna get 85 or lower). This wouldn't really matter if I weren't considering grad school (econ) or an honors thesis (need a 3.5 for that). As of now, I have A, A, A-, B+, A (some classes from previous school) for the relevant classes so I should have the necessary gpa for the honors thesis when this time of year comes around next year. We'll see though.

Here's a little taste of some of the math we're doing for the midterm this Thurs:

Find the maximum value of the function f(x,y,z) = x + 2y +3z on the curve of intersection of the plane x - y + z = 1 and the cylinder x^2 + y^2 = 1.

Right...

Haven't played cards cuz I'm at school but I can't wait to grind this summer. So much more fun than stressing over school.

Holler,
Yodaddy