First day of classes...

Geometry: cool material. Shimamoto started off with talking about Fermat's Last Theorem and the Poincare Conjecture, and how non-Euclidean geometries and curvature played a role in the proof of both. We'll start off with rigorously examining the foundations of Euclidean geometry, study non-Euclidean geometries, and finish off with some differential geometry stuff about curvature and manifolds, it seems. As with all math classes, this will be tough but worthwhile. A bunch of people including blaketh, Jonah, and a bunch of my Algebra Seminar compatriots are in it too.

Music Theory: tough. I was way more at home in math than in this... a lot of brushing up to do for a course that will be quite a time sink, especially given the required musicianship lab. I've wanted to be a better analyst of music, though, to get more out of it (can one appreciate the elegance of a mathematical proof without a knowledge of the math, or appreciate a poem without knowing its original language)? It is also a prereq from some cool history classes, particularly Barbara Milewski's Baroque and Classical Music next semester.

Democratic Athens: a lot of reading but of authors I really should read (Thucydides, Herodotus, etc), also looks really cool. Only course I'm contemplating that would be reading/writing based, rather then problem-set based.

Real Analysis: having that tomorrow.

Choose 2 of 4.