The Math Empo

                Four out of my five weekdays of this week has been spent at the math empo. This week I had a vector test and a test in Math 1206. For vector you get one test so you take it and what’s your grade is your grade which I took on Monday. Math 1206 you get 3 test tickets so you can take the test three times. The tickets fall on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, so that’s the other three days of my week.  First I want to say that I don’t detest the empo, it can be a nice place to work, it makes you feel like you want to get a lot accomplished. Even though I say that it doesn’t mean I like going there four out of five weekdays. My whole thing with the math empo is that if it wasn’t so out of the way it wouldn’t really be that much of a problem. Having to take a bus there and back and annoying. It’s not like using a bus to get off campus to go home where you want to be, it’s using a bus to go to another place to labor on schoolwork. I can toil on schoolwork in the library, so having to go to another place that’s out of the way to do work just inconvenient.

                One thing about the empo that can be helpful or annoying is the red cups for help. First of all people seem to have trouble putting a red cup on a computer because I am always hearing them fall off. I feel like there’s a better method of attracting the tutors attention than a red cup. Why not use one of the neon toys that can attach to computers? They’re bright and you can’t drop those everywhere. Also the tutors I find can be really helpful or not at all. Sometimes the way they explain things is great and then I’m like “thanks for the help!” But other times when I’m not sure what they’re saying I’m like “oh yeah that makes sense sort of”, it’s honestly a chance if you get lucky or not with a tutor.

                Coming out of the math empo is an experience every time. While I’m in there I have no sense of time, or any sense of awareness of the outside world. It’s always amazes me going in and seeing sun and coming out and it is completely dark. When I went there on Monday, I had completely forgotten about the horrible weather. Then when I actually went outside I’m was surprised by what was going on. The weather had gotten worse and I had no clue about it. Regardless, I’m sure that I going to have plenty more times at the math empo before the semester is over.