I made it through the first week back to school.

I made it through the first week back to school.  Even though I wasn't ready, I survived and I think this semester will be ok.  😊

I'm already less intimidated by Linear Algebra.  I don't want to be speaking too soon because it IS the very first week and we haven't gotten into anything hard yet, but I'm following along better than the first time.  I'm sure there are many different reasons for that, but in any case I am relieved.  In class I even had a good question - I wasn't sure if there was a difference between the Reduced Row Echelon Form of a matrix and the Identity Matrix.  Spoiler Alert:  There is, but it's not apparent until you have a matrix that isn't a square.  😉   She said we'd be learning more about that later.

In my Computer Organization and Architecture class I'm also learning a bit about Boolean Algebra which is cool, but very confusing.  For one, "+" means "or" and "•" means "and" in this algebra.  You still work it using order of operations, but you're not looking for a number with this algebra (so far, there are very few numbers in it at all) - you're looking for a true or false value.  These true and false values are what operate the switches on the circuits.  Or something like that.  🤣🤣🤣  It's all pretty new.

In Software Engineering we learned A LOT about using Git today and running it from the command prompt.  I never really had much experience with the whole command prompt thing and when I was having trouble running a program over the summer I even had to get help from Meia.  So we learned a whole lot about that and it's actually pretty cool.  Oh, and I think Git might be the best thing I've ever heard of.  We learned today about how it helps with managing version control of the programs you are writing and I feel like I love it so much already despite my limited use of it so far.

And even though I'm not OFFICIALLY taking Java I learned a lot in that class, too.  Professor Snellen is SO THOROUGH.  I mean, my heart got a little bit scared because of all the things we hadn't learned in that class which is a pre-req for basically everything else I'm taking.  We'll be digging into the actual programming part of the course very soon and for that I am grateful, but I was just kind of panic-stricken today after that class.

Anyway.  I have a small project to do for Data Structures and Algorithms.  I have a good bit of homework / things I'd like to do for school this weekend.  The math society is having a meeting at JSU right now and I kind of want to go, but also kind of just want to do my homework.  I surely have enough to do before I feel organized / that my head is clear.  I think I will probably just stay home this time because I'm already here and my tortoise is out walking.  Parking is so hard at JSU right now that I think for next meeting I'll just hang out at the school until it's time for the meeting.  I totally forgot about it or else I would have done that today.  Anyway, I'm off.  Later, friends!  I hope you had a good week, too!  ❤