Ethan Poll - 1st Blog Post

1. Ethan Joseph Poll
2. Ethan
3. 69 inches
4. 21 years old
5. 11:00 AM
6. Reeses Pieces
7. Ice cream
8. The Glitch Mob
9. Tabletop Games (Board Games, RPGs, etc.) and Internet surfing.
10. The highest level math I have taken is high school precalculus. I am a bit out of practice on many of those concepts, but I'll probably be able to rememberthem soon enough. I have also taken a college level statistics course.
11. I am relatively comfortable solving word, math application, and conceptual math problems.
12. I am very comfortable with using formulas and following steps and procedures.
13. My comfort level with the following calculus concepts:
 Uncomfortable
Curve sketching
instantaneous rate of change
derivatives
difference quotient
limits
finding local  and global maximums and minimums
area under a curve
Integration
Very Uncomfortable
continuity
chain rule
product and quotient rule for derivatives
determining inflection points
anti-derivatives
integration by parts
integration by substitution

14. My comfort level with the following algebraic and precalculus concepts:
Very comfortable
Equations
Factoring
Adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions/ rational expressions
Simplifying expressions
simplifyting rational expressions
Operations on roots and fractional exponent expressions
Operations involving whole number exponent expressions
Finding common denominators
Functions
Absolute value
Linear functions
Systems of equations
Domain and range

Comfortable
Inequalities
Inverse functions
Transformations
Quadratic functions
Competing the square
Exponential funcitions
Graphing
Trigonometric concepts

Uncomfortable
Logarithmic funcitons
Base e

15. - 18. I have not taken a precalculus course at a college level, only at a high school level.

19. Texting, facebook, wordpress, twitter, and google plus.
20. Texting and facebook.

21. Computer Science, Sociology minor.
22. This class is required for my major.
23. I will probably take another math class, most likely Intro to Discrete Structures. Either that or maybe Calculus II.
24.  I hope to learn mathematics that I can apply to my major in some way.
25. While I have not taken math since high school, even after the first few lectures it is letting me remeber a lot of things. I will be working harder to catch up a bit, but I am confident I will be able to remember and/or quickly relearn the essential concepts.