Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 16:16:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Peter May <may@math.uchicago.edu>
To: first@kundry.uchicago.edu
Subject: Thanks!


As of noon today, of the 20x10 = 200 problem sets, 190 have been turned in. I am dreaming that the remaining 10 will arrive, if not today, then in the next few days (I won't know when things arrive since I will be in Denmark next week). It would be nice to be able to tell future classes that this is not, in fact, impossibly much work to expect everyone to do. I have checked my past records, and I think that yours may be the best first year class that I have taught. It is not just the quantity, but the uniformly high quality of work that is impressive. Everyone has been turning in consistently solid work, with no evident confusion, and the last assignments have come in better than the first ones. That certainly has never happened before. I know that you have been working together a lot, but I am confident that nobody has been turning in work without truly understanding it. This is exactly the way that our program is supposed to work, ideally, but it is not often that it works quite this well.

Peter

ps: Homeworks will be in my office if anyone wants them back.