This morning I had the awesome feeling of my students (or at least some of them) "getting it." Between today's lecture and last Friday's lecture, 3 different students have piped in with questions that were not only totally relevant, but PRECISELY the next thing we were going to discuss. This means they were asking themselves "Where can we go from here?" or "How is this useful?" which is how a mathematician thinks! And they were asking these questions in the right way, at the right time. I'm so proud of them!
In other news, some of my other students can't follow directions or read, and that's kind of frustrating.
Oh well.
At any rate, just wanted to share that little snippet of some of the joys of grad school. Since I complain so much, I wanted to give some good news too! This week is insanely busy and I have a lot to do, so I can't write more right now. I've got two problem sets due tomorrow, and a midterm on Thursday. Yikes!
PS. I know I complained about that Friday meeting, but it turned out to be a lot of fun and I learned a lot and got a lot out of it. I just wish we could have fun productive meetings at a time that was more convenient for me. Oh well, can't win them all...
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