My name is Brian Hurlow and I'm a first year at Mac. I am still deciding on my major/minor,  I'm considering a Polisci major with a minor in music but at this point I'm experimenting with different things to see what I really like. 

This semester I'm taking:

Music Theory 1

The Psychology of Presidential Politics

The Principles of Art 

And Applied Calculus.

The weakest part of my math background is probably that my math experience has involved a lot of routine computation and not a whole lot of challenging problems. I'm very good at paying attention to what I learn in class and being able to reproduce it on the test, but I don't think my math skills have really been challenged so there's no telling how comfortable I'm going to feel in a harder math class. 

I'm taking this class because I really want to take calculus. I feel like I want to make sure I leave college with and understanding of higher level math, I think it is an important part of being a well rounded, informed individual.

I want to be challenged and put my math skills to the test. I want to expand my mind by learning something I never have before.

My interests consist of: Traveling, Sailing, Playing music in any form, meeting people, goofing around, and reading/writing short stories.

The worst math teacher I've ever had was in my senior year of high school, and he was incredibly lazy and mostly unwilling to help his students.

The best math teacher I've ever had was in my freshman year, he was just very approachable. 

I would love to hear a bit of rent in the morning, just to get me even more sick to my stomach. no seriously I am in love with radiohead.

I'm excited for math, I actually really like and hope to work hard and enjoy calculus. 

Thanks