So, I made it through the first day. Here's what I'm taking this semester:
* DD2325 Applied Programming and Computer Science
* DN2251 Applied Numerical Methods
* DN2260 The Finite Element Method
* DN2266 Mathematical Models, Analysis, and Simulation
Today I had lectures just in the mathematical models and finite element method courses. Applied programming doesn't begin until the second half of the semester, and I have the first lecture of applied numerical methods tomorrow. The FEM lecture was pretty brutal. I was really not following what the professor was talking about very well at all, but he was just covering a problem from the book. I bought the book before heading home, and read part way through the problem on the T-bana and think I can figure it out from the text. In the mathematical modeling class we just discussed some basics about matrix algebra that I already know. Looking at the outlines of the courses, a good deal of what's going to be covered in in the mathematical modeling course will be review for me, but probably just about everything in the FEM course will be new.
