Day 245

Today was a really full day.  Good, but full.


I had investments and life con this morning.  We talked about our quiz during investments.  It shouldn't be too bad, but we'll see.  Part of it is going to involve doing stuff that we really haven't covered at all.  And probably won't cover.  I'm not really a huge fan of this trend...


During life con we discussed a survival model that allows for two people to die at the same time. See, in normal probability two things cannot happen at the exact same time.  To explain, I will use an example.  Suppose you have a room with a perfectly flat floor and you are to drop a pin-head onto the floor.  Assuming that you are dropping the pin-head and not placing it, you can probably imagine that it won't land in the same place twice.  And in fact, it will never land in the exact same place twice.  Similarly, no two snowflakes will have the exact same trajectory down to earth (which is the reason that there are no identical snowflakes).  So this concept of two events not being able to occur at the same time is very important in probability theory.  However, it is definitely possible that two people die at the same time.  So the model has to be adjusted for that.  So that was interesting.  However, we didn't get to any of the homework problems.  So... yay.


After life con I went to go work out with Dustin and Timbo.  We did chest today.  It was not fun.  I had to stop the last exercise short because my shoulder started to hurt.  After working out I went to go talk with Alex, another student from the department.  He recently passed exam MLC (the third exam) so he gave me all of his study material.  I'll have to take a picture sometime.  I would guess that there is well over 4000 pages worth of material.  And he has some more stuff to give me.  So...that exam is going to be fun.  He also was giving me some study tips for FM, which was helpful.  He really encouraged me to just work through problems.  At this point I know the material well enough, now I just need to work through more problems.  Every day work through more problems.  So that's what I'm going to keep doing!


When I got back I showered, ate, then worked on life con homework with Dustin and Timbo.  Our goal is to finish all of this on Wednesday, then we can review everything on Thursday for our quiz on Friday.  Some of these questions are really involved... so I hope that we actually go over some of them.


After they left I just worked through some problems for FM for a while.  Ate.  Worked on more problems.  Alex pretty much said now until the exam should be no fun time.  I can have fun after the exam is over, but the next two and a half weeks needs to be all studying.  And I think he's right.  It's going to be hard, but I really need to just study constantly for the next couple weeks.  Yuck.  Anyhow, I did some grading which I will finish tomorrow at the computer lab.  Then I finished my resume, wrote a cover letter, and applied to another internship for the summer.  This one isn't actuarial.  It's for an "account executive internship."  I'm not too sure what that means, but I applied!  So we'll see where that goes.


And now I'm going to bed so I can get up early and study more.  Yay.... And good night.