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How much electrical knowledge do you need?

5	Electrical Engineering Major
4	Computer Engineering major (But Specialize In Software)
3	Physics Major (But Specialize In Other Physics Areas)
2	Mechanical Engineering Major
1	Math/Statistics major

Here's an exercise for Big Ten fans.

You can travel to one Big Ten game a week. Budget and the ability to get tickets isn't a factor here. You do have the following constraints.

The games have to either be a game hosted by a Big Ten school or a Big Ten Conference game at a neutral site (non conference neutral site games aren't allowed, non conference games hosted by the Big Ten are).

You can only travel to each Big Ten school/stadium once the entire season.

You can only see each Big Ten team a maximum of twice the entire season (if you see one of their home games you can only see one of their road games but if you don't see a home game you can see two of their road games, I don't believe there are any neutral site Big Ten conference games this season other than the Big Ten Championship Game).

Here's my list:

Sept. 5: Boise State at Oregon, Eugene, OR

Sept. 12: Oklahoma at Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Sept. 19: Virginia Tech at Maryland, College Park, MD

Sept. 26: Oregon at USC, Los Angeles, CA

Oct. 3: Penn State at Northwestern, Evanston, IL

Oct. 10: USC at Penn State, State College, PA

Oct. 17: Ohio State at Indiana, Bloomington, IN

Oct. 24: Iowa at Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Oct. 31: Washington at Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Nov. 7: Rutgers at Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Nov. 13: Illinois at UCLA, Pasadena, CA

Nov. 21: Iowa at Illinois, Champaign, IL

Nov. 28: Michigan at Ohio State, Columbus, OH

Dec. 5: Big Ten Championship Game, Indianapolis, IN

You have to start with The Game and then the rematch of last year's championship game. Michigan hosting Oklahoma is a pretty big one and saves me from having to pick another game that week. I also like Oregon-USC and USC-Penn State.

I went to both Illinois and Penn State so I wanted to get home and away for both schools and both are in major metropolitan areas where I have family (the Northwestern game is NW's first game at new Ryan Field). I also have family who graduated from Maryland and Wisconsin.

What's your list?

My challenge to you is to come up with the dream SEC season road trip where you go to one SEC game each week with the following conditions.

You can only visit each SEC stadium once for the entire season.

You can choose neutral site games only if it is a conference game (non conference games are only allowed if they are hosted by an SEC school). Oklahoma-Texas and Florida-Georgia are acceptable, Baylor-Auburn isn't. These games don't count as home games for either school even if one is designated as the "home" team.

You can only see any SEC school a maximum of two times for the entire season.

With 13 weeks you can go to a maximum of 13 of the 16 SEC schools (less if you choose one or more of the non conference games).

My picks:

Sept. 5: Clemson at LSU, Baton Rouge, LA

Sept. 12: Ohio State at Texas, Austin, TX

Sept. 19: LSU at Mississippi, Oxford, MS

Sept. 26: Oklahoma at Georgia, Athens, GA

Oct. 3: Florida at Missouri, Columbia, MO

Oct. 10: Georgia at Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Oct. 17: Alabama at Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Oct. 24: Tennessee at South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Oct. 31: Missouri at Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

Nov. 7: Arkansas at Auburn, Auburn, AL

Nov. 14: Mississippi at Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Nov. 21: Vanderbilt at Florida, Gainesville, FL

Nov. 27: Texas at Texas A&M, College Station, TX

By week:

Sept. 5: Was thinking of using Alabama-LSU as my LSU home game but thought this was a decent backup and wanted to go to the Third Saturday in October.

Sept. 12: About as big of a non conference game as you can get, a fairly easy choice for Texas's home game.

Sept 19: The Kiffin Bowl is pretty obvious.

Sept. 26: Oklahoma-Georgia is pretty big.

Oct. 3: Most of the top teams had better games to see and nobody wants to see Kentucky-South Carolina other than the schools involved.

Oct. 10: Georgia-Alabama. You have the last two teams to win the National Championship out of the SEC and a rematch of the SEC Championship Game. It's the first game I chose.

Oct. 17: Alabama-Tennessee is one of the biggest SEC rivalries there is.

Oct. 24: Could be talked into Vanderbilt-Kentucky here but Tennessee is a bigger name.

Oct. 31: No one else left.

Nov. 7: Chance to get Auburn on the schedule.

Nov. 14: Texas A&M-Oklahoma would've prevented me from getting a game at Florida so Mississippi-Oklahoma will have to do.

Nov. 21: My "best" chance to get to Florida. Four of UF's other home games are vs. Clemson-LSU, Ohio State-Texas, Oklahoma-Georgia, and Georgia-Alabama. Their other home game was vs. Oklahoma which means I'd either have to give up a home game at Oklahoma or give up Oklahoma-Georgia.

Nov. 27: Texas-Texas A&M is a huge rivalry to top off the season.

Missouri-Arkansas is the only game that doesn't have one of the SEC's "blue bloods". I'm not too thrilled with Florida-Missouri, Tennessee-South Carolina, or Arkansas-Auburn but the goal is to see different SEC schools or else I'd just go to Alabama or Georgia every week. At least I was able to avoid Mississippi State altogether!

Dumb Question:

In my calculus book the formulas sin^2 x = (1 - cos 2x) / 2 and cos^2 x = (1 + cos 2x) /2 are referred to as HALF angle formula. But they are derived from the DOUBLE angle formulas for cos 2x (cos 2x = 2 cos^2 x - 1 or cos 2x = 1 - 2 sin ^2 x). Why are these formulas referred to as half angle and not double angle?

>!I usually criticize TPIR for making it hard for contestants to win.!<

>!Today they made it so obvious for a contestant to win and win big.!<

>!Most Expensive for three trips: Cook Islands, Germany, and Canada. !<

>!If you know where the Cook Islands are it would've been obvious it would be the furthest away and most expensive, Even if you didn't an island trip has a good chance to be more expensive than a land trip. Even if you thought the Cook Islands was in the Caribbean or Atlantic it's a 50-50 for three trips totaling more than the average car! !<

>!I probably would've done One Wrong Price for three trips or if it were three trips make it three close together places like three European cities. !<

Of the days of the week which is the best day to take an AP exam? Worst? (I'm under the assumption of five days in the US).

I would think Thursday would be the best, Wednesday second, Tuesday third, Friday second worst, and Monday worst. I have noticed that this year Calculus was Monday and I believe it has been Monday for several years. If the College Board were nice they'd put the more popular exams on the "better" days and the less popular exams on the "worse" days. Obviously some exams have to be on the "bad" days.

Also, some exams are better to have early and some are better to have late. An exam with more material to study should be later while an exam with less material should be earlier. I was told from this board "senior" exams are often scheduled earlier to help seniors whose graduations or other senior activities might be before the end of the exam period. What exams would be better earlier and what exams would be better later? I noticed AP Physics 1 was early this year when I seem to remember it being late in past years and AP Physics 1 is notorious for being difficult with a low % of students scoring 3 or above.

I doubt Trevor is reading this but these are ideas on how to improve the 2026-27 schedule.

I just finished watching Pathfinder on a Barker Era episode on Buzzr. They were still playing for a 4 digit car. This was in 1989. The choices for the first # were 2, 5, 6, and 9. By then it seemed like no cars sold for less than $7,000 so 9 was the obvious first choice and the contestant easily got it right on the first turn and eventually won the car.

Meanwhile I saw a recent You Tube Pathfinder playing. The four choices for the second # were 4, 5, 6, and 7! No wonder it's harder to win Pathfinder today. If they made the second # obvious or even if they had one or two of the #'s obviously wrong the chances of contestants winning would be a lot higher.

They could easily make Pathfinder a more winnable game. I guess they don't want it to be.