Kelsey would ask him if he were thirsty. I'm handing him salt.

This post is dedicated to you, Dr. Kovats, for teaching Differential Equations/Linear Algebra at 8 in the morning with a level of enthusiasm never before seen in a mathematics classroom, and then switching buildings and reteaching the material and doing the EXACT same problems again at 9 am for my class with the same jolting volume and an unsurpassable excitement for math that I haven't seen since my brother and I nicknamed our Algebra 1 teacher, the Stuhlminator.
(points for me for that absurdly long statement)


For those of you unfortunates who have not had the opportunity to sit in on one of these great man's lectures I offer you the following quotes.
Please note that every single one of these was shouted in a voice that can only be described as gleeful.

"We've got a 2 here, a 3, and a finsky (five)!"

"Absolutely! Absolutely! *walks towards the board, walks away from the board, shrugges shoulders all while continuing* Absolutely! Absolutely! Yes! Of course you can! Absolutely!"

"Before we start giving ourselves high fives all across the room!! we've got to make sure!!"

"Roll the Dice, going for a 5!!!"

"I find multiplication a challenge!"

"We'll use a and b that's the gentlemanly thing!"
(to which Raymond whispered, "See that, he's wooing you." Greatest word choice in the word, well done Sir.)

"ITS ALREADY IN ECHELON FORM!"

"Okay, Okay, Okay, what are we doing?"

"You have infinite solutions! NO! Even more than that, you have uncountably many solutions!!!"

(while looking at a 4 by 4 matrix) "There's Definitely something attractive about this thing."

Kovats: "what can you tell me about this matrix"
Austin: "Its really close to echelon form."
Kovats:" ITS REALLY REALLY REALLY CLOSE!!!"

"This place is like vegas"

to student who just asked a homework question
"I have no idea how to do this problem...THESE ARE THE ANSWERS!!!!"

"There's something offensive about calling this matrix star"

while about to start a Mixing Problem:
Here's the point, when I was in college there was only one energy drink. It was called Jolt cola. It came in a red can with a yellow lightning bolt across the front and the slogan: All the sugar and twice the caffeine. and that was it. that was the drink. One day at a concert i saw a man with a red shirt and the lightning bolt across it and then under that the words: Jolt Cola, All the sugar twice the caffeine..."I WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED THAT YOUNG MAN ANYWHERE!"

student: yank out the e^x out of the first column
Kovats: lets talk more about yanking
Class laughs silently and then becomes quiet
I burst out laughing
Kovats: "CHUCKLES! What To DO!?"
Xenia: pull an e^x out of the first, e^2x out of the second and e^3x out of the third column
Kovats: YOU BEAST!!!

"Here's the thing, you CANT do drugs before coming to class!"

Right before taking a derivative that will include 5 product rules
"okay...we RIDE!"


Let me leave you with a few final thoughts...Kovats on a blind date... Kovats on the upwards climb of a Roller Coaster... Kovats in a library with a very strict librarian...Kovats realizing that his favorite type of cereal is half off...


p.s. watch this post, more quotes to come.

its all rather super...b isn't it?

so today we're once again discussing the amazing, yet oh-so-commonplace, 100% wave, 100% particle phenomenon that we commonly refer to as light. Whats the latest buzz?
Those of you who read my previous post "You're Hideous and Sexy" are already aware that light is made of particles. Those particles are referred to as photons. Photons have no mass (although i recently heard that this might no longer be true) and are small packets of pure energy. Now when most people think of light they generally think only of visible light (red to violet). Surely its only this light that has experiences this odd wave-particle duality? No of course not, what kind of blog would that be? The entire electromagnetic spectrum from infrared to radio waves to Ultraviolet waves to gamma rays, etc not only all experience this odd dual form but are all composed from the same Photons! not really all that shocking and yet...the only thing that makes these things different therefore are not the material they're formed from but their frequency and wavelength. Its like if you changed the frequency at which you were doing something and all of a sudden you became something completely different (from a mild mannered reporter to the one and only Superman! (Wonder Woman is cooler))
Some of you are still disappointed. Get back to the parallel universes you exclaim. (Feeling thirsty? ) But wait! There's more!
...You and I and everyone else you know emit light....
does your face currently look like this ? --------------------> >:(
good.
First let me just clarify that I dont mean we reflect light. Of course we do, otherwise all humans would be invisible. (listen up Department of Defense, there's a new way for you to camouflage planes or people or whatnot)
We emit light.
If you go and stand in a perfectly dark, light-tight room, while being filmed by an ultra sensitive camera and then watch that film.. You'll die in seven days. No! Oops, wrong movie. No, you'll see your body glowing. Interestingly enough your face will be glowing the brightest and your entire body will dim or brighten with your "metabolic rhythms"
need more? GLOW .Below you can see the findings for yourself.