We got the results back on Monday, but well I have been busy with things so I didn’t get around to writing about them until now. I did about as well as I expected I had done on Friday getting a 98. Surprisingly the class as a whole did not do well at all. The median score on the first exam was 67 and then quite a few people dropped, yet the median score on the second exam was 63. I could tell on Monday when he was going over the exam that he was pretty upset about the scores on the exam. He kept saying, “I thought you understood.” I think it is really cool that he seems to care so much about whether or not his students succeed.
On a related note he has started hinting around that he will be the instructor for algebra II next quarter. I’m not really sure how I feel about this…I think he is a cool guy, but right now he is a group theorist teaching us group theory. I just wonder how much of his enthusiasm will be around next quarter when we are learning about rings. Oh well I guess it can’t be too difficult to teach the basics of algebra even if it is outside your area of specialty.