So, I started working on my stochastic processes midterm this afternoon– I decided to just jump right in after my roommate said he did it and found it almost suspiciously easy. Ok, I figured, I’ll be able to knock this out of the way in a couple of hours and just enjoy the rest of the weekend. Needless to say, that’s not how it’s turning out. Thankfully we have 6 hours to work on it, and we can start and stop as we like, while still thinking about the problems and consulting texts in between. I’ve already spent about 1.5 hours on it, and completed none of the problems. After I’m done, I’ll post it, just to show how convoluted word problems can be– part of what’s making this hard is decoding the English statements into precise probabilistic statements. It’s still fun, though.

Possibly relevant posts:

• The futility that is DLD (4/27/2004)
• all ’bout TeX (7/26/2001)
• Random plans for the week (3/7/2007)