As you can tell by the title this week did not go so well for me in the math department. Optimization did not come easy to me and it still doesn't seem easy to me in any way. I've always struggled with story problems throughout my math career where you have to read the problem and find the certain method that you have to use to solve it. Optimization is story problems with a twist. It is something that back when you looked at these type of problems in previous math classes you'd think something is wrong with them or they're written wrong. I still don't have a great understanding of how to do many of the problems. I think it would help if we went over some more examples as a class so that I can be sure of how each problem should be solved. It is good that we get to have a retake on the quiz over optimization because it was one of the worst quizzes I've ever taken. I don't fail quizzes, and when I rarely do I usually somewhat know that it's going to be bad but never expect that I failed, but that one I wasn't surprised when I got the score back. Although I know I wasn't alone which makes me feel better.
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