Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Faculty
I have met with most of my teachers by now. They are French, English, Greek, Romanian, American, Canadian, Spanish, and German... if I include the poor PhD students who need to dedicate a couple of hours of their time every week away from their precious thesis for tutorials.
The teachers start really slowly – only for the first class – which made me furious: am I investing all this time and money to spend 90 minutes calculating the Present value of some future value with a fixed discount rate? Or to calculate the probability of X being greater than some_value using a Binomial distribution, as I was being taught in High School…Surely not.
Fortunately or unfortunately, this was to last only for the first class…

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