Lecture: Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences

Location: CLH E
Date: 14:00-17:00 Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Professor: Jag Chawla
On Wednesday’s morning, I went to Nexus and signed up the lecture. In fact, that the only accurate time for me to attend a lecture is math because others are at 6 or 7 p.m. There are two different teachers to teach math, one is Mohammed, who is a non-native speaker professor, and asked me to go to the platform; the other is a professor called Jag Chawla. I signed up a lecture which is taught by Jag without any hesitation. After class, before, Lily and I went to the lecture hall. Similar to the last one, I sat in the second last row.

The professor did not ask me anything; however, a female student who sat in the last row asked me whether they should have test on that day. I am getting smart on that day because I answered “I don't know”. She smiled and asked “You didn’t come to class last time?” I said “yes, I am sorry”. Suppose I wanted to say that I am not a student in York University, and I am a student from YUELI; however, I thought she might not know what YUELI is. I did not want the situation become complicate. I did not want to explain and make people laugh again.

After that, the professor asked the students to go to in front of the platform and picked up some paper. I was curious, so I followed the students and went to the. Those pieces of paper are their test. In the first 30 minutes, the professor was talking about the solution of the test. The students were dead silent. They all took notes and watched the screen.

The professor, Jag, who is 50 years old or so, is also a non-native speaker; however, his English pronunciation is much better than Mohammed. Finally, after 3:30 p.m, Lily and I decided to level because the lecture may be all about test.