... spherical trigonometry -- a topic no one knew, but everyone knew enough to learn it ...           ... calculus -- it was the hardest, but it's the one topic I couldn't get good exposure to at home, at my age ... ... the astronomy lectures -- the most stimulating and challenging ...      ... computer programming: I was new to this, so I enjoyed this a lot ...           ... integral calculus and celestial spheres ... they were a new way of looking at things for me ... ... Sayuri's lecture on college and careers and Dr. Hammergren's "life cycle of a scientist" ...

Dr. Hammergren's lecture

Orientation exercise in Ojai.

... geology and plate tectonics because I can see it around me ...           ... SETI, the planet/moon lectures, the probability lectures, and general astronomy ... ... astrobiology, relativity, planetary astronomy ... these are subjects I cannot otherwise gain exposure to in high school, and I learned that astronomy is so much more than looking at the stars ...      ... possible meteorite impact ... Mars landing, on the JPL field trip ...

          ... the computer programming. It was my first time doing this, and it turned out to be extremely satisfying for me. Before I came here, I thought it sounded mind-numb ingly dull ...

... physics, which I have taken. I simply liked how the material was presented, with derivatives .. .