I haven’t forgotten about you. I haven’t forgotten about myself. I’ve just been living life, I suppose. Let’s see… grad school updates. Last semester I “graduated” with a Master’s degree in mathematics. “Graduated” is in “quotes” because I’m still here, in the same school, in the same program, in the same office, taking the same […]
First piece of exciting news is that I’ve finally joined in on this decade and bought a tablet. I did not buy an iPad – I can’t afford it, plus I’m not overly fond of the business model or the operating system. (Although obviously I prefer the Apple business model to the Wal-Mart one…) Anyway, […]
This semester has not been at all what I expected it to be. In a lot of ways it’s been better. The measure theory class I’m taking has been surprisingly manageable. The ergodic theory class I’m taking has involved more real analysis than I would like, but I’m not letting myself get stressed out about […]
I took my second PhD qualifying exam last month and I PASSED! That means I don’t have to take quals EVER AGAIN! So, to summarize my progress in graduate school: There are seven required year-long course sequences (for the PhD program that I’m in). I’ve finished three; this year I am in the process of […]
I feel like I should post this here, since I’ve talked about this issue before (in particular: here and here). This week an article/letter/piece was published in the opinion section of the New York Times (here) written by a retired politics professor that is disturbing to me. He makes several claims and arguments that I fundamentally […]
(1) A bird take a dump while flying over an intersection (have seen the results on cars before, but don’t think I’ve ever actually seen the bomb drop, so to speak) (2) A parking meter attendant standing in front of a meter with 3 minutes left, just waiting to be there the second it expires […]
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