Grades

My grades are posted for the spring semester.  I made an A, a B, and a C.  That works out fine since I need to maintain a B average to keep my assistantship.  Finals were very difficult for me--even when I knew the material.  It is so hard to solve a problem in a specified time, even with a formula sheet or the book.  Reliability Engineering this summer has a take home midterm and final.  I think I'll do well on those--it's the time that gets to me.  I can't remember what the professor said about Cloud Computing--maybe that there would be no final, just programming projects...that may be wishful thinking.  And, I think that research hours are only graded as pass/fail.  I'll probably upgrade the project I worked on in the spring and try to get a publishable paper out of it.  My professor said I needed work on the experimental design.  That doesn't surprise me since I don't think I've ever done any experimental design.  At least she said good things about the writing itself and the literature review that I did.  I look forward to the summer opportunities.  I spent this morning watching "math tv" on youtube learning about integration.  I think if I review derivatives and limits that will give me sufficient calculus to be comfortable with the statistical formulas for reliability.  Calculus is coming back to me; sort of like riding a bicycle, which is nothing like riding a unicycle!