Wish you a Merry Christmas!

I would like to take some time to wish you a very Merry Christmas and to remind you that you too can write on this blog. Just email me from your etbu email address and I will share with you, a very special email address where you can send your blog posts. Your posts will be published immediately so please be sure to sign your name in the posts, if you would like. Thank you!

Calendar for Spring 2011

Calendar 2011 

Selected events:

Date	Day	Event
January 05, 2011	Wednesday	Deadline to clear the Business Office
January 07, 2011	Friday	Residence halls open for returning students 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
January 08, 2011	Saturday	Residence halls open for returning students 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
January 09, 2011	Sunday	Residence halls open for returning students 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
January 10, 2011	Monday	Classes begin
January 18, 2011	Tuesday	Last day to add a class
February 19, 2011	Saturday	Junior Qualifying Examination (JQE)
March 07, 2011	Monday	Mid-term grades due at noon
March 11, 2011	Friday	Spring break begins at 6:00 PM
March 20, 2011	Sunday	Residence halls open at 3:00 PM
March 21, 2011	Monday	Advance registration for fall 2011 begins
April 22, 2011	Friday	Good Friday, university holiday
April 29, 2011	Friday	Last day of classes, last day to drop
May 02, 2011	Monday	Finals week begins
May 06, 2011	Friday	Rehearsal for commencement
May 07, 2011	Saturday	Spring Commencement 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM
May 09, 2011	Monday	Final grades due at noon

a fuller list follows after the break

Differential equations

Created with Google docs and here is the original document (https)

Differential equations

INSTANT MBA: Don't Let People Tell You Your Ideas Won't Work

INSTANT MBA: Don't Let People Tell You Your Ideas Won't Work: "find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work."

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ps and sga

Proof seekers and the student government association at east texas baptist university 

Compliance, Policy-making, Sustainability, and Systems Design are not the first things that come into anyone's mind when we think about a fun weekend. However, all of these are really important, almost as important to an organization as weekends are important to a college student's sanity. From my personal experience, I have noticed that the sga places a great amount of emphasis on compliance, policy making, and sustainability. Well, compliance and policy making is their bread and butter but I would like to talk about sustainability a little bit. 

Organizations are very much like living entities. Some are even legal persons, with legal names, rights and privileges, responsibilities and duties. Succession planning is important in many ways for organizations of all sizes and types. While it is not possible for a current officer body to have a small group of people prepped to step in when the current officer body steps down, it seems totally reasonable to me to keep the organization members informed and in touch concerning the vision that the leadership pursues. Proper documentation and archival of ideas that occur in the student organization is one part of the equation. The other part is presentation of the ideas and visions of the officer body in bite size information capsules so as to speak the students can swallow and get a gist of the situation without waddling through tons of paper work. 

Mail to blogger

Writing on this blog is as easy as sending an email. There is a special @blogger.com email address to which you can send emails to. Currently, I have it set up where all emails to that email address get posted automatically. If you would like to post on this blog, it is just as easy as you think. 

To get started, email me at proofseeker at gmail dot com from your etbu dot etbu address and tell me that you would like to write on this blog. I will write back to you with the email address where you can send your blog posts. I can't wait for your submissions. This will be good! 

Define kernel

Looking back at 2010

(cross-posted from https://sites.google.com/site/proofseekers09/blog/todaysmeetingabouts10andbeyond)


We are meeting for the proof seekers today at two in Meadows. I am excited about it and cannot wait to hear all the great ideas we are going to discuss. If you have any input on this or any other issue with the Math Club and would like to talk to me, I am more than willing to listen to you. :)

Today, at the proof seeker officer meet, my main focus will be on increasing student participation in the math club. One of the ways we could accomplish this is through incentives for participation. According to incentive theory, positive reinforcements are a most effective way to help shape behavior. In this light, with the support of participating professors, we might be able to encourage participation in various activities at the math club.  Another effective way could be to make the events fun. I would like to learn more on what you guys find fun*. 

Another point of interest that I would like to discuss today is a statistics on The Colbert Report (Hulu link) on Wednesday. According to Arthur Benjamin who is a Math Professor at Harvey Mudd a self-styled Mathemagician, people who take more college courses in math make more money through their professional careers. Perhaps, we should encourage students to take more math classes than required in their degree plans (at least those students who started on or before Spring 2010, more on this later). 

* Ideally, it should have something to do with math but that should not be a problem. We probably need to search hard to find an activity that has nothing to do with math (even if the math is really keeping score). 

Thank you for reading. Ciao!
— Kushal 

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