FINAL EXAM Reflections, due April 13

I think that the important stuff to know for the final is the material on rings and groups.  I know that sounds like something to which you could reply "DUH! That's the whole course" and you might be right.  But I mean it in a more specific way.  Yeah, modular arithmetic is cool and all but I think it's more important to know about the groups and rings that are formed by the set of integers modulo some n.  I would really like all of chapter 8 to be a nice little time filler, for-your-own-enjoyment type of thing and not be included on the final.  I feel that if we've had to stick with the other section for the entire semester thus far, we might as well endure to the end and not change things up now.  I mean if we were going to break away from them, I wish we would have done that before the second midterm.  This class has taught me a lot of really cool things that I found to be very fascinating.   It helped me embrace my inner nerd. :)  I don't know how much of it I will use as a teacher but I don't plan on just forgetting it all as soon as the semester ends.  It's been fun!