Today I had many more classes to make up for my lack yesterday. I had to get to the university by 8 for my first class and spent most of the day there.
Introduction to abstract algebra, which currently has 4 people in it and needs 6 by the end of the registration period or it will be dropped, was first. It seems like a good class, and should be fun. It transfers as group theory, a required class for the math major at Oberlin, which is very convenient and the reason I'd rather have it not be dropped.
Then came combinatorics, which is so large that it's split into two sections, both of which are large. It's a popular course, as combinatorics is a branch of math that Hungary is particularly renowned for (or so the program tells us). It also seems to be a good class, and, like all the classes I've been in so far here, it moves along at a good clip.
Then more classical algebra, which consisted of solving problems about complex numbers. It was a good time, with interesting problems and the teacher running around being very excitable, which was rather amusing.
Classes were interesting, though it is still taking some getting used to the accents and getting back into the fast pace of the classes. Hungarian was much slower than this, and much more notes need to be taken now than before. I'm still unsure how much work I'll have because homework hasn't started yet. This will be the important factor in my semester. I could end up having way too much work; we shall see.
After classes, I met up with a bunch of people and we all cooked dinner consisting of pasta with a variety of veggies: eggplant, broccoli, sun-dried tomatoes, onions, garlic, mushrooms, and possibly others that I can't remember as I'm tired.
I apologize for this kind of fragmented, short post. I'm tired and I also don't feel like recounting the details of all my classes, as much as I know everyone reading this/the entire internet was looking forward to hearing the secret details of Hungarian math classes. But I was sworn to secrecy, so what can one do?
But in other exciting news, I recently found out I got into the summer program I applied to, so I will be spending this summer in Beijing. Which means there might be a sequel blog to this, with a similarly clever name.
I'm also going to be going along with a group of people to Vienna. Which will be very exciting, especially as someone else is planning most of it.