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It's already a week into September? Time flies so quickly!

This labor day weekend was fun, I spent time with my parents, the girls, and my boyfriend. I saw Hubble 3D in IMAX, which was really cool! I took an astronomy course this summer so I understood a lot of what was going on in the movie (although it was made for no previous knowledge). Leonardo DiCaprio was the narrator! My parents and I also walked around Navy Pier for a while, took some pictures, and had an awesomely expensive lunch at Gibsons Steakhouse.

Saturday night was girls night, I got to catch up with my friends from home over some manicures and a movie. I finally got Katie to get a french manicure, it looked good! I've been doing my nails in french myself for the past few weeks in order to save money vs. going to the manicurist. So far so good! Katie and I also went cellphone shopping, but to no avail we are still using our old, discontinued phones. We also got some cool new sunglasses, awesome for driving when the sun goes down.

Dan and I watched all of House season 6. It came out on DVD last Tuesday and I ordered it on Amazon for us since I have free 2-day shipping (Amazon Prime! It's amazing!). Can't wait until next August for season 7! We're also winding down on our Frasier marathons too, we're on season 8 of 11. Any suggestions on what to watch next?

Starting my teacher education program has shown me new things about being a teacher, I'm super excited to finally get in a classroom. Two years will pass by quickly, and then I'll be in charge of my own set of students (x6, for 50 minutes lol). I wonder if this is too much to share, since everything now is the "digital age," I figure a blog is okay, right?

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This diary of a math student is surely lacking in math, correct?

I'm taking a course with Mathematica, and I'm definitely struggling to figure out the program, also how the lessons are set up to teach me anything. I'll find out how it works eventually I suppose, otherwise my grade will definitely suffer. My real analysis class is also being a bugger, I'm not sure how to do a certain proof :( But I'll get it, it'll be like a eureka moment.

I particularly like this comic:


I also found a project which assigns a musical note to each digit, and you can play the digits of pi as a song, go check it out: http://www.avoision.com/experiments/pi10k/index.php

Other fun math things
* Calculus Made Easy
* Random Math Proof Generator
* Project Euler