Class!

September 7 | College International

Today was the first day of class. After an introduction by the program director who gave us lots of good advice about what to do and what not to do in Budapest some of us went here. This is "Real Functions and Measures," a very specific continuation of calculus. The professor started the class with introducing the subject, and jumped right into lecture, introducing the basic concepts and assigning a problem as an exercise.

Here's our first math topic: imagine a space where the distance between any two points is 1. (He mentioned this as an example, since such a space is indeed possible.) For 3 points it is a triangle, for 4 points: a tetrahedron, for more points, a corresponding figure in a higher-dimensional space.

Anyway, a lot of people showed up to all of the classes today. I think, many students including me are taking advantage of the 3 weeks trial period to sit in as many classes as possible. That's why classes are crowded. We managed to find space so far. In the afternoon we had a reception (to meet the professors) where we talked to the Dynamical Systems professor about scheduling a time for our first meeting. It's a reading class, and a meeting wasn't scheduled. Luckily, no conflict. Lots of classes cancelled first week, which means I'll be sitting in for other classes. Not sure what the first week will be like, except that I'll be in class.

Crazy. And fun.