What a day, what a day. It started off with a shower, followed by some eggs. I tried something new today. I put sour cream in my eggs. It was good. It makes them much fluffier. I liked it. I doubt that I would buy sour cream just for that, but I had some from Sunday so I figured I may as well use it.
I got to the parking lot just in time to catch the shuttle. I've finally picked up on the fact that a shuttle leaves the parking lot area at 7:45, so if I can leave be leaving my parking spot by 7:33 I can make it before the shuttle arrives. The shuttle was a little late today, because I wasn't leaving my spot until 7:35 but I still made it.
Anyhow, investments was pretty normal this morning. At one point Dr. Foley was explaining how to optimize a function. To refresh us on "constrained optimization," he did a classic calculus problem* to demonstrate. I thought it was funny.
*Calculus is the study of how things change (and some other stuff). This is often used in a first semester calculus class to study things like speed and velocity. So some of the classic calculus problems include: "A farmer wants to make a fence for his pasture. Find the maximum area if he has X feet of fencing" or "A 25-foot ladder slides down a wall. The sliding rate is 3 ft/minute. The top of the ladder is 7 feet from the ground. What is the rate of change of distance between bottom of the latter, and the wall?" You get the idea. Well, you might. Either way, these problems (and more) are in basically every modern calculus book.
During Atrium time we just did some studying for probability. Jacob wasn't in investments on Monday, so I let him copy my notes. Then we worked through some probability problems. Tim told us a little bit about his exam experience. It's pretty serious stuff. Before going into the room he had to empty his pockets, pull up his sleeves and pant legs, and then room was under camera surveillance. If you had to use the restroom, you had to raise your hand until someone saw you on the camera, then they would escort you out of the room. You would sign out, go use the restroom, then get re-checked before coming back in. So it's a pretty big deal.
Probability went decently. Yeah. We asked some questions on last week's stuff, then did some problems from this week's material. This week we're starting to get into discrete probability distributions, which means memorizing lots of things. So yay.
After class I went home, did the investments homework, and ate lunch. I made some leftover tuna casserole in the skillet. It was every so tasty.
After lunch I studied for FM. I also had two cups of coffee, but that wasn't enough to keep me from being tired. Oh well! I kept on going. I made stir fry for Kathryn and Clifton, then we had a little study party. I actually did a lot of problems today. Probably around 50 or so. I was pleased. I think that if the exam is mostly like the practice I've been doing then I should do fine. At this point my only concern is that there will be things that were not covered in the manual and text books. Which really shouldn't be the case, but I'm just nervous since I've never taken one of these before. But we'll see! The idea of all this practice is just to make the real exam as close to practice as possible.
Anyhow. I'm going to try to get some sleep. Hopefully all this exam nonsense doesn't keep me up. Night!
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