The material on the final exam will be drawn from all parts of the course. For a review of which topics we covered, see the rundown I sent out before each test. Also recall that we studied mathematical induction, condition number, pseudoinverses, and vector spaces in class but those topics did not appear on any of your exams. It seems likely that at least one or two of those will be on the final. I mean, it just kind of makes sense, right? Just a guess. What do I know, though? I’m just the guy who writes the exam. Or should I say WROTE the exam! Just finished it. It’s gnarly like the King of Limbs — not that one, this one:

So sweet. The format of the final is like this: There are four sections of three questions each. Some of the questions have multiple parts. Each of the questions within a given section are worth the same amount. The first section is more conceptual problems, the next three basically correspond to the material from the first, second, and third in-class exams. You have to do two out of three problems in each section. You are allowed to bring a 3” x 5” index card (or a piece of paper cut to that size) as a cheat sheet. Anything on it must be handwritten by you — no printouts, no photocopying, no getting your friend with tiny handwriting to write one for you. You are not allowed to bring a calculator to the exam. Also, if you take the final and you decide you don’t want it to count, you can just put a big X through the front page and write “Don’t count this exam, dude! Too hard!” and we won’t grade it. If you hand it in to be graded, though, it will count.

There have been a few grade adjustments over the past week, so here is the updated distribution:

90th percentile	89.33
75th	83.99
65th	80.16
50th	75.13
35th	69.22
25th	62.75
15th	54.29
mean	70.37

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The French Impressionist Edgar Degas is best known for his paintings of like pretty ballerina girls or whatever doing dancey stuff I guess:

But he also has this rad painting called L’Absinthe that depicts drinkers of the title beverage as lugubrious loners:

Bummer, Degas! That painting is in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, which is one of the dopest museums in the game, and is actually quite a manageable size for a single visit, unlike the Louvre, which forget it. Orsay is housed in a former railway station that is beautiful on the outside:

But even more so on the inside:

Just like Meryl Streep!

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“It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.”