堂哥的紐約留學日記

Today is the very first class for the summer boot camp in NYU Tandon MFE Program. I wanna share you some personal thoughts about today's topics, and also some WTF moments.

Master of Financial Engineering, the top master degree in NYU Tandon School of Engineering, made all the admitted students an exclusively designed syllabus. As a result, we all have to go to school on August 6, which is the earliest among all the programs in Tandon... Moreover, nobody else in NYU has this kind of online summer boot camp.

So what can I say? Wonderful arrangement for incoming students? Probably yes. But the details about the course contents...

今天晚上八點，我打開筆電，連上一個叫做 Zoom 的視訊討論平台，跟其他70多個來自世界各地的MFE新生一起上課。

授課的是一個大陸教授，我不知道他的名字。

上課的學生，絕大多數是印度人還有大陸人，台灣人的話我只知道除了我之外還有Sabrina.

Who is Sabrina? Well, she's another Taiwanese girl who had an excellent performance in the studying of financial engineering. Very looking forward to seeing her in August.

Since today was the first class, the professor only talked about some basic level mathematics.

I said basic level, most of the people might not get any fucking thing after going through the class...

講了一些類似集合之類的東西，然後有一些定義名詞，我沒有聽過，但是可以理解教授想要表達的意思是什麼。

大概就是說：自然數N這個集合裡面的元素是可數的，然後我們要證明為什麼可以數。除了N之外可以推廣到整數Z集合，還有有理數Q集合，同樣都是屬於可以數的集合。

簡單來說，證明方式就是看有沒有一對一對應的關係。

If there exists one-by-one mapping relationship, we call the set "countable".

However, rationale numbers R, is not a countable set.

The proof is a bit complicated. I don't think I'm going to show you guys here.

Well, in the following weeks the boot camp will cover topics like calculus, ODE, PDE, possibility theory, linear algebra, and hopefully Python coding.

And here comes the WTF moment. Just before the class dismissed, he said something astounding.

He's gonna change the class time from Tuesdays and Thursdays night to Wednesdays and Sundays night. I mean this is What The Fuck???

Cause you didn'e even inform us beforehand, and now you just said that you want to change the class hours because of your personal working arrangements?

你大可以提早一天、兩天、甚至一周跟我們說，而不是在要下課前才突然拋出這樣的更改消息。

Finally he said "Ok, bye bye~" and the meeting shut off immediately...WTFWTFWTF?????

That's for today. Just want to share with you what I learned today, and what will be covered in MFE.

Last but not least, we had an introduction time today. I talked a lot. Hope that others would not regard it as showing off XD.