My Journal

The key lesson here is to understand terminologies more than the math.

Prof. Jonatan Jelen was rated funny online. That his teaching is more on jokes than content.
Nothing about his assistance, "Don", who substitutes Jelen from time to time. However, Don focuses on the text, which is better.

The first test is all about terminologies and definitions and appears to be following the textbook's online quizzes.
Rittenberg, L., Tregarthen, T., Principles of Microeconomics, v. 2.0, March 2012, eISBN 9781-4533-3267-2

To score in Jelen's class one just needs to memorize the terminologies from the textbook. And do the quizzes from the text online. Jelen's exam questions follow whatever the text says verbatim. His lectures have little to do with the test. He even made mistakes in some cases which were contrary to the textbook: ie. fixed price only happens in long run (Jelen) while textbook says short run. When a student confronted him, Jelen tried to redefine his meaning of "fixed price".

Jelen referred us to Khanacademy free videos on microeconomics by Salman Khan.

Jelen's "stories" are actually fascinating. I learned a lot. Therefore, it is best to read the text prior to his lectures, which aren't following the text really well.

Professor Octavio Betancourt

T.A. Mohammed Shibli Saadi

Text: Grimaldi, Ralph P. Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, An Applied Introduction, 5th Edition, Addison-Wesley. Downloaded online, free. Looks like the professor had the same version for his projector use.

The syllabus covers only 10 chapters, skipping  8, 9, 14-17.

The text book uses mainly examples to explain, so some ideas are hard to grasp. However, it is thorough enough to learn all kinds of terminologies. One project I could work on is to convert this pdf text to computer readable format as it is now a non-text scan format which makes word search impossible. I shall summarize them here.

The recitation is a joke because the T.A. doesn't really do anything except for telling non-relevant stories and dismisses class early. A time that could have been great for tutoring, even amongst students, without the T.A.

Professor: Lou Marinoff

Basically this class talks about Confucius' Analects and LaoZi's Dao De Jing. The professor apparently regards this class from the viewpoint of Buddhism. I intend to take this class as supplement to my Philosophy minor.
Most supplements and syllabus are on his google drive. As for online I-Ching resource, he recommended this.

I shall record my journey of studying Confucius and Lao Zi here.

Resources:

Confucius
Analects

Good comparison between Chinese original and English translation.
http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/analects.html

Prof. Marinoff suggested Arthur Waley's translation, the free version online mistaken as Arthur Waley, but was actually translated by James Legge in 1893, which I found out later doing a quick search). Apparently some of the students in class were using fooled by this error as well. Verses are not marked.

Wikipedia lists notable translations, some of which are available freely online. I cannot find any parallel comparison site online as the one I found for Lao Zi's Tao De Ching. I could start a project website for a translation comparison chart. I also should mirror backup Lao Zi's http://www.mobilewords.pro/Tao/.

Lao Zi
Tao De Ching
Lots of English Translators Comparison (Prof. Marinoff's book is translated by Ch'u Ta-Kao (初大告) & Stephen Mitchell). It would appear that Red Pine has very accurate translation.
http://www.mobilewords.pro/Tao/

A good Chinese source, with pinyin, no verse labels but tedious explanation.
http://www.zxuew.cn/daodejing/

Apparently reliable chinese explanation, with Chinese medicinal application.
http://doc.zenw.org/ddj/

Chinese Text with some English Translations Comparison, but translations are a little off sometimes. However, Chinese Characters have pinyin and definitions. The same site has other books such as Sun Tzu's The Art of War.
http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/daodejing.php

Prof. took a day off on 10/14 for a trip to Italy for the Global China Business Meeting hosted by horasis.org (which also hosts India, etc. Business Meeting).