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<p>Another thing, mj93, is to go into your geometry textbook and to do some additional problems (especially problems that relate to triangle similarity). Visualization isn’t just about 3-D visualization - a lot of it is also about superimposition (can you superimpose a triangle on top of another, or can you superimpose two sine/cosine waves on top of each other?) You have some very good questions - I posted a thread about that 2 years ago, though it was met with only 2 responses. There are some really good chapters that require a lot of visualization - the Maxwell’s equations chapter in physics textbooks (they give you an intuitive feeling for them, though they don’t develop them rigorously) require superimposition on top of 3-D graphs. </p>

<p>I also think that videos could help you with visualization (especially since they often draw out the visualizations for you). I don’t know of any particularly good educational videos though, since I tend to prefer studying out of textbooks.</p>

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<p>what do your parents do for a living?
have you ever played any sports?
is it desirable to identify with groups of people?</p>

<p>have you ever had a personal relationship with god? do you want to?
why not? you know he wouldn’t mind :D</p>

<p>what are you going to do all day when you’re retired?
do you think people will still play computer games?
are we an official couple yet?
if you could ask galois anything, what would it be?</p>

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<p>“what do your parents do for a living?”</p>

<p>meh programmers :p</p>

<p>“have you ever played any sports?”</p>

<p>in 2nd grade, soccer. but my parents told me to quit - since I always jerked my head away from the ball whenever it came in my direction.
in retrospect, im glad i quit.</p>

<p>since then only in pe.</p>

<p>“is it desirable to identify with groups of people?”</p>

<p>humans being social creatures yes. even im inclined to identify with groups of people. “what stereotypes do you have of certain communities?” I always imagine whether im representative of such stereotypes or not. after all, a huge curiosity of mine is the “basin of attraction” curiosity - given this person and the way he was raised, what basin of attraction is he most likely to fall into?</p>

<p>“have you ever had a personal relationship with god? do you want to?
why not? you know he wouldn’t mind”</p>

<p>god feels so distant. :slight_smile: but i feel god is such a social construct. id like to have a personal relationship with a god i could make up (and convince myself of the legitimacy of that god)</p>

<p>“what are you going to do all day when you’re retired?”</p>

<p>hard to say ^_^. hm.</p>

<p>“do you think people will still play computer games?”</p>

<p>haha almost certainly</p>

<p>“are we an official couple yet?”</p>

<p>i’m open. :slight_smile: it would be cute.</p>

<p>“if you could ask galois anything, what would it be?”</p>

<p>are you so certain that if you had known the significance of your theory, that you would have really felt so compelled to lose your life over that petty duel?</p>

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<p>are you a “nerd,” a “geek,” or a “dork?”
are you going to respond to the previous question with something involving “labeling?”
are celebrities more screwed-up than normal people, or do we just know more about them?
what percent of your general philosophy on life comes from random books you’ve read?
are you choosing a major anytime soon?</p>

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<p>“are you a “nerd,” a “geek,” or a “dork?””</p>

<p>I remember asking this question to someone two years ago. I considered myself all three. But there was a “dorks at heart” facebook group with hundreds of members; there was also a “nerds” facebook group with hundreds. Suffices to say I consider myself more extreme than them in all three qualities.</p>

<p>“are you going to respond to the previous question with something involving “labeling?””</p>

<p>Um, didn’t I respond to all of your questions in this thread? :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

<p>“are celebrities more screwed-up than normal people, or do we just know more about them?”</p>

<p>More screwed-up if you define “screwed-up” as being away from the basin of attraction related to rational thinking. </p>

<p>“what percent of your general philosophy on life comes from random books you’ve read?”</p>

<p>Probably not that much - those books have just given me the verbiage to clarify my philosophy.</p>

<p>“are you choosing a major anytime soon?”</p>

<p>Well it is math, I’m just going to avoid advisors whenever possible (and avoid declaring until I have to).</p>

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<p>How do you become famous on CC? :D</p>

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<p>I’m not that famous :p</p>

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<p>Why do you think I’m that famous? :p</p>

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<p>All right let me reframe that question, you got it wrong buddy.</p>

<p>How can a CCer be famous on CC Cafe? :smiley: :p</p>

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<p>But why am I famous on CC Cafe? Why not snoopy, or LesOs, or NotAmbidextrous, or fizix? :)</p>

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<p>Because even my dad knows who you are. :)</p>

<p>Me: he posts as InquilineKea. do you recognize him?
Dad: oh him! yeah, he likes to post really long stuff.</p>

<p>it’s the sheer volume man</p>

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<p>rofl at your dad knowing who IK is.</p>

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<p>are you and fizix2 in a relationship?</p>

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<p>I still believe you are female.</p>

<p>Btw, does anyone(if not IK) knows any site for downloading textbooks?</p>

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<p>Hey what drove you to PM my friend that one time after figuring out who she was from Facebook or whatever?
That was quite unnecessary, really.</p>

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<p>Some of these are in English.</p>

<p><a href=“descargas-vagos.com.es”>descargas-vagos.com.es;

<p>This is where my friend got his copy of Apostol (as opposed to paying $80 for it at the bookstore).</p>

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<p>It was curiosity over who goes to collegeconfidential (not a lot of people go there, especially from our region, so I was trying to get a “feel” for whether many people from our region go there or not). I didn’t know who she was until she gave me her name, which I recognized from the elementary school yearbook (not facebook)</p>

<p>But really, it was your e-mail that made me think it was you (so I ended up looking through the person’s old posts, which seemed similar in some ways and different in others, so I PMed her just to make sure)</p>

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<p>==> but I didn’t go to abnormal lengths to find out what your username was (I just saw her reply to one of my old threads and saw the location “seattle”, which naturally made me click “search for user’s posts” - a button that I use fairly liberally).</p>

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<p>for 2 weeks :p</p>

<p>we didn’t do anything special that we didn’t do otherwise (other than announce it on facebook)</p>

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<p>i’m glad i didn’t answer this (actually i wanted this thread to sink at that time) since fizix2 just gave us an awesome download site. :stuck_out_tongue: but um try</p>

<p>[Textbook</a> Torrents - The Free Textbook Tracker](<a href=“http://www.textbooktorrents.com%5DTextbook”>http://www.textbooktorrents.com)
and just the classic bittorrent tracker sites</p>

<p>rapidshare.de has some too (but i only know of math books from there). just google “book you want + torrent” or “book you want + rapidshare” and you might get lucky. or + djvu (a lot of books come in that form)</p>

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<p>Hey there, summer fling.</p>

<p>(I did consider you my boyfriend for longer than that [maybe 5 weeks]. e.g., I told my parents about my “boyfriend” long before we announced it on facebook. I assumed that since I’d told you I liked you, and you said it was cute, and we started very obviously flirting with each other on collegeconfidential, we were unofficially “dating”.</p>

<p>As you can see, I’m quite forward.</p>

<p>But officially, it was indeed a two-week relationship.)</p>