On Jul 5, 10:41*pm, riverman wrote:
On Jul 6, 2:44*am, wrote:

I haven't been here for a while, and haven't really been fishing in
about 3 years, but I'm thinking about changing one *of those things.

Hey Stang: welcome back! I've been wondering where and how you've been
up to (or as much as that makes sense)

Finished your BA in Math, eh? If you returned in the latter end of
your degree, did you have to do any math classes, like walk ice-cold
into Diff-EQ or Linear Algebra? I also walked away from a BA in Math
(since I already had one in Geology and had a full-time teaching offer
in hand), and I've also been thinking of doing the last couple of
classes finish that BA, but it means I have to take two liberal arts
classes and Linear Alg, and you can believe I've forgotten quite a bit
of the prerequisite stuff by now, even though I teach everything up to
Calc.

Anyway, I'm on the road on my way to Indy for a conference, but will
be passing back through New England on my way to Maine around the
14th. Wanna get together and revisit the Farmington or something? I'll
bring the bagels.

--riverman

Replying to riverman, but will also comment to others in this
thread...

I''m not up for wading yet - but could spare time to socialize if the
opportunity presents itself. I actually finished a BS - took way too
much science - thus the deficiency in liberal arts... I would rather
jump back into a linear algebra course than something like diff-eqs.
I was hanging with a bunch of EE majors last year and looked through
some of their diff-eq work (all practice, no theory) and it was
extremely daunting - I think it would take a year or remedial work to
get back to that. I talked to the head of the applied math masters
program at the university and he was very encouraging - having done
his undergrad work in the early seventies like I did, he offered the
opinion that things were more rigorous back then and I could easily
compete with today's students for a slot in the program. I was not
convinced, but it was comforting. Thankfully they didn't make me take
anything difficult - just intro-to-everything in social sciences and
writing. Lots and lots of writing.

Tom: I really missed Penns the past couple of years. Jimmy and I were
planning on going but he had family issues both years, and I probably
wouldn't been able to fish at all 2 years ago... Next year!

Tim: Are you up for a leisurely day on the Paug if I promise to not
rock the boat?

George: Graduating was anticlimactic - I really enjoyed being back in
school. I'm going to have to fill the time with something, and it
will probably be river activism - the DEP gave those shysters in
Russel permission to draw 850,000 gallons a day - I could get worked
up over that. We're making progress on the Swift River projects too.
The engineer's report we commissioned on the Ice Dam is getting good
responses from people at Riverways.