Randall Munroe is Amazing!

I started and finished reading Randall Munroe's 'What If?' in a couple of hours today since it was so interesting I couldn't help myself. Looking forward to when I receive 'How To' from the library in a couple of days. I really like Munroe's style of teaching and his stickmen.

My calculus course starts tomorrow. I'm quite excited; it's MIT's 1A on Differentiation and should make for a perfect introduction to calc, since the prerequisites are precalc and trig, which I have done. Basically, it's calculus for beginners. This'll be my first experience doing calc, and I'll try my best!

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