Calculus, Physics and Chemistry!?

So back in the day, I went to college. I took the sciences. I hoped I would finish a BSc in Computer Science. I never accomplished this, I didn't understand the real world and the more advanced sciences destroyed me. Calculus never worked for me, I had a hard time balancing chemical equations and Physics? That's largely based on Calculus.

Fast Forward a number of years and I am going back to school. Our program co-ordinator came into the class and told us that some of us had expressed an interest in dropping Math 235, "Technical Calculus". He strongly advised we did not drop it. That we do it and that we pass it. They had found that students doing Geophysics in second year had a massively hard time without the Math 235. They had made this technical calculus course a pre-req for it.

Now my brain sometimes works slowly, but at that moment, it clicks over and it comes up with...geoPHYSICS. Ah crap I have managed to pick a program that contains "Calculus", "Physics" AND "Chemistry"!

Chemistry comes in the form of Geology. The first part of the course has been learning about elements and minerals....and balancing chemical equations!

How am I doing with this stuff?

I understand the concept behind solving for tangent. I am ready to get into the actual technical calculus. I am happy it is not a pure calc course as I don't need to memorize proofs of the calculus equations like I did in college.

As for balancing chemical equations. I can do that now as well. Now it's almost easy. Crazy stuff.

Physics? Well we haven't hit any formulas in there we are still just discussing how seismic surveys are set up, and right now we are just discussing marine surveys. After last class though that all fits together much nicer now as well.

In other news I was sitting on the "Help Desk" the other day, 4:30pm or so, minding my own business and in walks my Introduction to Computers instructor. Busted. Now she knows I know something about computers. :(

Workouts are going well. I have been doing the first hypertrophy routine designed by Alwyn Cosgrove in the New Rules of Lifting book. I have been hitting that 3 days a week. My nutrition has been ok, and I am trying to eat enough to gain size right now. Eating at 3000+ calories when it comes from good foods is much more difficult than you would expect.

Eating like the typical North American, you can go to McDonalds and polish off 1000 calories no problem, or drink 3 cans of coke, or have a big slurpee. In general you can rack up the calories pretty fast.

I started supplementing with "Creatine" as well about a week ago, so hopefully I can put up some decent lift increases in my deadlift and squats. Maybe on my bench press as well, but I am really more concered with the leg muscles as those lifts feel so much more powerful.

I think that is all I have to say at the moment so I will leave you to your computers and I will get back to writing out mineral groups and their radicals...

Halides, (Cl)-1, (F)-1
Carbonates (CO3)-2
Oxides (0)-2
Hydroxides (OH)-1
Phosphates (P04)-3
Silicates (SiO4)-4
Sulfates (S04)-2
Sulfides (S)-2
Native elements, Neutral