Okay. I have to admit that the problem I was complaining about last time turned out to be a whole lot easier once I found out that you use partial fractions and then learned how to do partial fractions, something my California-public-high-school-Calculus glossed over. Though it and succesive problems were made substantially easier by the solutions manual that the TA put up on the projector at the help session last night. Thanks to my ability to write very, very quickly within an hour and a half I had all the answers, which really made the rest of the homework go much more quickly.

I really did like the system much better when you could always have the answers, but the point was that if you didn't understand the steps to get to the answer you'd screw up on the test, so just copying wasn't going to help you. It gave you something to work toward, rather than the way I work now where I start and keep working, and end up at some answer like I got on the Separations homework I turned in Monday, where I had 800,000 cubic feet per minute passing through an absorbtion column of 0.1 cubic meter volume. That's a lot. That's compared to the problem statement saying "an expert has recommended 1000 cubic feet per minute." 800 times what the expert recommends. Excellent.

I look forward to the day I have my own apartment. Knowing every surface in the kitchen is clean, and hasn't been used as a cutting board for raw hamburger or chicken will be so relaxing.

Plus, someone must have left gum in the dishwasher or something because there's bits of something sticky, shiny, and irremovable on all our plastic dishes. It's really annoying. The blond roommate picked most of it off when she was doing dishes, so maybe it's okay, but it's so weird. Adventures in housekeeping.