Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Proofs

Proofs suck. I onyl can say that because I have spent the better part of three hours now looking at this assignment for my logic class and I am only part of the way done with it. Worse even than that is my motivation for working on it now instead of tomorrow during my class break. I am quickly becoming convinced that everything that goes wrong in my life is caused entirely by me and usually for the same 2 reasons, either I am tryign to do something to glorify myself, or I am trying to do something that will make me appear better than I am. Thats relaly the same thing, but thats also relaly how it is. When ever I am arrogant I am trying to look good for others which shouldn't be importan to me according to galations 1:10. So anyways this is my latest predicament; I am above average in this Logic class I have been taking, so today when I was doing good at understanding the lecture I started to help other people in the class. Well I don't know if I made myself seem smarter than I really am or I just didn't look ahead enough, but I have been voted as the leader of this little study group tomorrow. I was looking at what I am supposed to help everyone with tonight and I don't knwo that I am confident enough in the work I have done to tell them all this is the way to do it. So thats my predicament. I guess the other thing is that I am major tired and will onyl gte 7 hours of sleep at best probably no actually at most 6 probably 5 and a half which is not good at all. Oh well I hope you all enjoy this, though I am starting to think that its just Annie.

in Him
matt

2 comments:

Annie said...

Yeah, oh well .....=\ I enjoy posting on your blog, Matt :) So are proofs the same type of thing in logic as they are in math? Heh, actually, it wouldn't matter to me if they were or not, because I don't know how to do them in math either, as my teacher said they were stupid and only made us do one. Ever. Maybe two. But I'm rambling now. I am sure you will be a great leader in your study group. Perhaps it will be good practice for you, as you are being put into new leadership positions now that you are a young life leader :D And even if you don't understand it all, they will be no worse off than they were before.

Matt said...

Yes proofs in logic are actually exactly the same in logic as they are in math. They use the same symbols, meanings, and abstractions to accomplesh whatever it is that they accomplesh. As I was informed tonight by a dear friend of mine Mike, the work that I have been assigned is remarkably similar to advanced graduate level calculus. For me this was very disconcerting because I am terrible at regular calculus. Oh well thought I'd clue you in.