It’s past 3:30 Central Time on Thursday, so you know what that means! It’s the weekend for Angela!!! That’s right, I have no recurring commitments on Fridays so I get a 3 day weekend every weekend! No classes, no work (at least not scheduled work…), just “fun.” What is a typical weekend for this math […]
I know most of my posts so far have been either about the move to Texas or conjecture about what grad school would be like. Now I’ve got some real experience! So, of course I’m going to share it with “y’all.” Oh, but before I do, I’d like to point out that most stereotypes people […]
So, tomorrow graduate school officially starts. I hit the ground running on the first day too: I teach two classes (8AM and 9AM), have office hours at 10AM, and have one class of my own (at 2PM). Then I have Friday off. (Actually I have every Friday off. Lucky me!) My syllabus is written and […]
Got my teaching assignment! I’ll have two sections of pre-calculus recitations. At 8AM & 9AM on Tuesdays & Thursdays. And I know I said in the last entry that I’ll be just a TA, but I’m pretty sure that I’ll have to do lectures for this class. Actually, my responsibilities are not clear at all […]
Yesterday I met my graduate adviser for the first time (my adviser until I choose a dissertation adviser in a few years). I had spoken to him on the phone a few times and e-mailed back and forth with him, but I finally met him yesterday. I think he and I are really going to […]
So, I’m still in the process of unpacking and organizing things in the apartment, but I’m sure you’re curious as to what I got myself into. Before I left, lots of friends were extremely concerned that I would get seriously screwed over in the apartment department, as I’d never seen or visited the area or […]
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