The examination period is only a week away, and the current pace at school is tremendous. In the eleventh hour, before which everything in linear algebra had stuck and felt manageable then Pow!, and you listen to a lecture that introduces a ton of new ideas, proofs and formulas to remember. After working for a long time with the eigenvectors and now mastering them, there came the quadratic forms and systems of differential equations. The differential equations are especially tricky, since we are assumed to know how they work before they are introduced in the Calculus II course that starts in January. So a little confusion is nothing more than expected here.

The course in calculus is also coming to an end. Ending as in “we have one week left now let’s throw in something way new and let them students sweat a bit”-ending. Todays lecture in Calculus introduced the standard integrals, as compared to the indefinite integrals that we have consumed the last three weeks. And all those assignments! They really require you to stay focused during the whole lesson, and mistakes are costly because you lag behind quicker than you imagine.

There, I needed to vent my thoughts a bit. Y-linjen is a difficult education, just as I wanted it to be, and I do thrive. The last six months have given so much more understanding of mathematics, now that I look back to high school that feels like children’s games to me.