User:Msellke
| Mark Sellke | |
|---|---|
| Room | H312 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Course | Mathematics
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Things I like
- Tennis
- Roger Federer
- Ping-pong
- Math
- Pokémon
- Tasty food
- Cool temperatures
- Floor Pi
- Copying Jingyi
- Playing Smash poorly
- Clean dishes
Things I dislike
- Euclidean geometry
- Rafael Nadal
- Non-Euclidean geometry
- Simmons Hall
- Algebraic geometry
- The college admissions system
- Differential geometry
- Dirty dishes
- Tropical geometry
- GIR and HASS requirements
- Computational geometry
- Coding
- Other geometry
Classes
Fall 2014
18.715
6.046
7.012
24.900
Spring 2015
18.318 (Topics in Combinatorics; Choongbum Lee) - The topic this semester was extremal combinatorics. Material was pretty cool; I finally learned what the regularity lemma actually says. I didn't like how lecture notes were usually posted 2 weeks late, but it wasn't a huge deal.
18.783 (Elliptic Curves; Andrew Sutherland) - I really liked this class. The beginning focused on curves over finite fields, and had a lot of emphasis on efficient algorithms and coding, neither of which I found great. It then moved to curves over the complex numbers which was really cool. Problem sets took a long time but were generally interesting. Lecture notes were fantastic, so missing lecture wasn't a problem.
21H.141 (Renaissance Europe; Jeffrey Ravel) - My second CI-H. I kind of like history, but unfortunately this time period is all about religion, which I don't really care about. The essays were all pretty annoying, so I didn't like the class much.
24.111 (Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics; Bradford Skow) -The first month of this class was just linear algebra. Overall very easy HASS credit.
6.856 (Randomized Algorithms; David Karger) (dropped) - I like probability, but this class ended up being really boring with super sketchy (student) grading. I heard the later stuff is better though, but I only lasted a month so I'm not really sure.
Fall 2015
18.217 (Topics in Combinatorics; Richard Stanley)
18.755 (Lie Groups; David Vogan)
18.155 (Differential Analysis; Richard Melrose)
18.177 (Topics in Stochastic Processes; Scott Sheffield)
21M.600 (Intro to Acting)
3.091 (GIR)
