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And continued and continued... enough filler.

Listening to Music: Holy crap. Are these kids/children even old enough to be out of kiddie-school? You know the one where the boys go around pulling the girls ponie-tails and the girls all say "gross!" every chance they get?

It seems like it'll be an easy class. I have to do two concert reviews ("...pick a thesis statement, and back it up in two pages..."), identify some music and a few aspects of the music.

Oh, there's an in-class quiz.

History of Mathematics: Oh crap this sucks. Today we talked about Hypatia, the last Pythagorean. She got thirty seconds of air time, intermingled with a discussion of the origins of language, ice ages, homo erectus, homo habilis, neanderthals, and Jurassic Park. Most of the time was spent with two or three people speculating on what they had (maybe) read in a paper or magazine three or four years ago, but couldn't really remember.

"I don't remember where I read it, but language seems to affect the ability to do mathematics." -- some dumbass in the front row

Well duh! Perhaps it was Terry Pratchett: Men at Arms, page 132, footnote: "In fact, trolls traditionally count like this: one, two, three...many..." Or it could have been the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis or an article in New Scientist. It could even have been a little bit of trueism from any Psychology 101 course. I would like to think that the person had actually read an academic paper, but I won't hold my breath.

On second thought, it could be an interesting paper topic for the term.