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+Today I attended my first class of **discrete matematics** (E-104). I was too optimistic in estimating the
+time to bike from the FSF to the Harvard Science Center, and as a result I arrived 5 minutes
+too late. Next, I entered the wrong classroom, and it took me another 5 minutes to figure out
+that kinetic laws had nothing to do with my course.
+
+When I finally got sited in the correct classroom, I realized I had no paper! So I started
+taking notes on my laptop, but I was really the only one doing so. Not much because it's
+not customary for Harvard, but mostly because ASCII is not very well suited for writing math.
+Luckily, the first class was about logic operations, whose notation is very easy to transcribe
+on computers. To make things worse, the battery ran out near the end of the class, producing
+an embarrassing alarm sound that everybody could hear.
+
+My #1 fear, being unable to follow the professor in English, dispelled almost immediately.
+Besides, this first lesson wasn't very hard in itself. I noticed that the professor accompanies
+the explanations with several small questions directed at the audience. These days this is
+one of the few reasons left to prefer a real university over a set of videos on You Tube.