Introduction to Tapio

My name is Tapio Riihimaki.

I am a first year.

I have not decided my major yet, but most likely economics (possibly Chinese minor).

I previously did International Baccalaureate, and Standard Level Mathematics in it. It included functions and algerbra, trigonometry, matrices, vectors, calculus, statistics and probability.

My weakest part in high school was statistics and it is sad because it is the one are that I want to use later on in my life in social sciences.

The strongest are in my math bacground is most likely functions and algebra.

The course is required by the economics department and I believe that it will prove to be useful as I am interested in social sciences.

I want to build up my confidence in my mathematical skills once again (they are bit rusty at the moment because I had a gap year). I am also interested to learn applying calculus to problems faced in social sciences.

I am interested in economics, business, organizational studies and human resource management. Also nutrition and exercising are very close to my heart.

My worst math teacher did not have self confidence and was not able to keep the class under her control.

My best math teacher showed genuine interest towards math and gave us most of the time homework related to real world mathmetical problems.

I would like to hear Lose Yourself by Eminem.

By the way, I am positively surprised and impressed how much you are trying to engage us in the classroom. Have a great weekend