mugging

Mugging astronomy yesterday, and math today, it is soooo much easier to internalize and vomit all the theoretical aspects in astronomy than constantly internalizing and systematizing the hard mathematical concepts.

But I feel I am learning so much now (1 semester's worth in fact, considering I slacked off math to focus on physics =S) and truly without all the symbols, abstractions and methods developed by geniuses gone by, our world would be very far backward indeed.

Who knew sequences and series could hold so much use?

And then again, I find it insane that a university course could cram this much knowledge into a person in 3 to 4 years. Either there are more geniuses around than we realize, or most people are just taking in knowledge to spit it out, forgetting all these wonderful lessons after a few years in the workforce. I vote the latter, I don't see how anyone devoted to truly learning can juggle all this together with their other commitments. There is a reason why Kepler spent most of his waking moments working just to develop what is now considered part of foundation physics in Uni. I resolve to be more devoted to the science which I love, though resolutions hardly come through (heh).