More Monterrey pics (finally)

en el Paseo Santa Lucia

& I finished out the roll at a party at our apt in January
another cool actuary

An Uneventful Update

I don't really have anything to blog about lately because I've just been doing more of the same. I traded my social life in for study guides when I came here to Florida and have just been focusing on passing exams. I got a 9 on the P Exam by the way. It's out of 10; 6 is passing.

I am still tutoring which is the greatest job. I recently bought Dominic's car from him, and David came with me to drive it across America during spring break. I need a car now since I'll be here in Tallahassee all summer, and all my roommates are going home. I'm taking 5 classes this summer, but my fall semester (MY LAST) will be cake. Oh yeah, I am graduating in December for anyone who didn't know! This year-round approach I have taken to college has turned out to be very efficient.

One of my roommates made me this pic online: (It's from Harry Potter)

Great news

Today was the big day - my first actuarial exam - and I passed! This is a pretty big deal, since passing the Probability Exam means I'm only 4 exams away from having a real actuarial designation. That still sounds like a lot, but it's supposedly really good to have passed 2 exams by the time you graduate from college, so I guess I'm ahead of the game. Now I have nothing to worry about until the Financial Math Exam in May, and the review seminar for that starts this Tuesday. It's so much fun being an actuary...

I'm also "teaching" 6 sessions of an actuarial tutorial this semester, which really means collecting the sign-in sheets and babysitting while people do math problems. But still getting paid :)

Mexico

Dominic and I spent Christmas traveling around Mexico. Here are some of the photos.

The El Paso border is not too busy

The border line Chihuahua
Cathedral right by our hotel in Chihuahua

Taken from the bus on the way to Zacatecas
We rode the cable car to the top of ZacatecasAnd this is the top

And the view from up there

Entrance to the old silver mine in Zacatecas, which we actually took a tour of

View from our window at the hostel in Zacatecas

And from the awesome roof of the hostel

Taken from the bus, just outside Saltillo

Saltillo

Cathedral in downtown Saltillo

Mexico sure loves its Christmas decorations

Museo del Palacio in Monterrey Monterrey

Mexican History Museum in Monterrey (of course we never went inside)

More pictures of Monterrey to come, when I get them developed.
I am actually very excited to head back to school tomorrow and start another semester, since I have been kicking ass academically in Tallahassee. This semester I'm taking Mathematical Statistics, Ordinary Differential Equations, Intro to Financial Accounting, and Intro to Risk Management & Insurance.