I'm Finishing Things

Years ago Allan bought me a beautiful handmade paper piece of art on which a Hebrew prayer for finishing things was inscribed. He gave it to me with hope that the sewing projects I had started and stacked in my sewing room would someday be finished, but I think of that beautiful keepsake as I begin my adventure at Auburn. In 1973 I began a master's degree program in Industrial Engineering and in 1975 I left the program unfinished. In 2010 I begin the process of finishing the program.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Econ

Econ for this semester is over...Hopefully, Econ is over forever, but I didn't do well on the exam. At least, for now, it's behind me. I start tomorrow to study for the other two exams. LP is at 8 am Monday and Adaptive Optimization is at 12:00 pm Monday. I enjoy so much learning new things and studying, but I really do not even like taking tests. Albert Einstein said, "Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing." My Econ professor is one of those teachers who waste their time. I wonder if he realizes that it doesn't reflect well on him for students not to have learned what he intended to teach.