User talk:Kasey E. O'Connor

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Week 1 Journal Feedback

  • Thank you for submitting your assignment on time.
  • There are just a couple things that you need to fix on your individual user page and shared journal page. Please make these changes by next week's journal deadline (midnight, February 8) to earn back the points you missed on this assignment.
    1. You are using the wrong syntax to link to a file. Currently your link takes you to the OpenWetWare information page about the file you uploaded. You want to create a link that automatically downloads the file when it is clicked on. Instead of using [[Image:Delta Delta Delta and St. Jude Children's Hospital.pdf]], use [[Media:Delta Delta Delta and St. Jude Children's Hospital.pdf | Delta Delta Delta and St. Jude Children's Hospital]].
    2. You have used the summary field only a few times. The goal is to use it every time you make a change.
    3. On the Week 1 shared journal page, make a link back to your user page at the top of the section where you answered the questions.

— Kam D. Dahlquist 19:19, 30 January 2013 (EST)

Kasey, I answered your question on my user talk page. — Kam D. Dahlquist 19:28, 24 January 2013 (EST)

You asked: "Hey Dr. Fitzpatrick. I wanted to ask what your favorite class was in college, and what part of mathematics you have found to be the most challenging through out all your years in the field. Kasey E. O'Connor 21:34, 21 January 2013 (EST)"

My answers: Real analysis at the undergrad and graduate levels were my favorite courses. Had I not left Auburn with my master's to work in industry, I'd likely have ended up in pure mathematics doing real analysis. As to the challenges, I'd have to say modeling is the most difficult thing. In pure math, you make assumptions and derive conclusions from them. In science (which modeling really is), you hypothesize what you think the right assumptions are. You then analyze those assumptions to see where they lead, and then you have to return to the "real world" to see if those conclusions "match up."

Ben G. Fitzpatrick 13:27, 3 February 2013 (EST)

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