WEEK #11

I dont know much about undergraduate research. I still am a little confused on what it entails and what it will help do. I am not against it but it does sound boring. I also dont know how I would go about doing research and how I would no what to research.

WEEK #10

I have my classes all planned out and now I just hope that I can get into the ones I need to. 

WEEK #9

Felix Lazebnik's speech was very interesting. The way he talked about being a mathematician and thinking about math was intriguing. He talked of one of his teachers as mathematician because he was always thinking about math. I do not feel I am a mathematician but I do feel very apart of the math world. I love connecting math with real world applications and I am intrigued when solving a math problem. Many people don't enjoy solving mathematical problems but I definitely do. I love connecting equations and rules to figure out a problem. 

WEEK #8

This weeks class discussion was very interesting. Putting the price of that bill into perspective with how it would actually effect the individual was so interesting. When ever I hear government and economic stuff like that I can never really relate to it. The class definitely helped to show us how people actually need a great amount of math in their every day lives. You don't realize how much math goes into everything. Doctors, insurance, banking, are all based on even the most basic math principles as well as more complicated math applications. 

WEEK #7

I found Dave Edwards talk very helpful. I am a math b.s. major and am thinking of going into mathematical finance. He informed us on the math and econ major which made me think that maybe that is the path I want to be following. He was very helpful in describing the jobs that can come out of the major because they were never that clear to me. I am also interested in looking more into actuarial science.
Training an informed citizenry is to allow people in a society to be highly educated. This applies to mathematics because math is everywhere. People live on money. Money is managed from the basic mathematical principles. Math also helps physicists and scientists. It is a big part of the meidcal and engineering field as well. Without math, the world would not be as advanced as it is today.

WEEK #6

Tom Sharpe was an interesting speaker. I has no idea he was going to devote most of his presentation to boomerangs. It was really cool seeing how a math teacher could create creative projects for his/her students to do. He took something he seems passionate about and applied it to his teachings. It seems like a cool way to grab the attention of students and help them have fun in math and connect mathematical concepts to reality. 

I really want to know about Dave Edward's schooling and what he graduated with. I am interested in seeing how he got a math finance job and what it consists of. That is a route I am thinking of taking so I am eager to here his story. It will also be interesting to here what he has to say about the economy today. Especially since it is in turmoil and people are trying to figure out ways to boost the economy. 

WEEK #5

No, I am not thinking about graduate school unless necessary. I would love to have a career right after I graduate college. I don't want to have to deal with having to pay more tuition. The graduate students made graduate school seem a little weird. They were all in it for so long and one of them wanted to never come out of it. They made me a little confused on what they want to get out of graduate school with. I would love to hear what the math finance man has to say. I think that is where I am headed. I would love to hear about finance jobs that come from a degree in math.