I’ve calmed down tremendously. I think it’ll get worse (stress attack tonight or tomorrow) but by Thursday, I’ll be cruising and happy again. Basically, once I’m through October, life will be much easier. Thursday I’ve got a Complex Analysis midterm and homework due, Saturday I’m going to the Texas State Fair, Sunday I’m going to […]
So, that exam I was expecting to take yesterday got moved to next week. After taking a really hardcore algebra course last year (and a pretty intense complex analysis one this year), I feel like our topology professor is babying our class sometimes. Don’t get me wrong, I love the class. The material is interesting […]
This morning I had the awesome feeling of my students (or at least some of them) “getting it.” Between today’s lecture and last Friday’s lecture, 3 different students have piped in with questions that were not only totally relevant, but PRECISELY the next thing we were going to discuss. This means they were asking themselves […]
It’s Friday morning. So, I should be in for a low stress day of coasting into the weekend? Of course not. This morning, I taught at 9AM. I had office hours until 8:50 and a student actually came to ask questions, so I didn’t get to class as early as I normally do. I walked […]
Thursday and Friday of last week I was really feeling a lot of pressure. I had a lot of work hanging over my head, and I felt like I had lost a few battles throughout the week. It really felt like grad school again. The first few weeks of the semester had been kind of […]
I’m finally able to verbalize another big reason that grad school was definitely the best choice for me. I am fascinated by the fine line between the known and the unknown. I am extremely impressed by mathematicians that are not only aware of this line, but walk it in their careers. A major concern I’ve […]
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