The original purpose of this blog was to keep friends, family, and colleagues from “back home” updated on my life and my grad school progress with mass updates. I know, I’ve been stingy with the updates. And when I do write, it’s either completely unrelated to school/work or it’s somewhat related and so long that […]
Today marks the end of the first fourth of the calendar year 2013. It’s also the end of the second third of the Spring 2013 semester. It has been a weird and stressful year so far, and it will probably only get weirder. I’ve got a lot of different possibilities for how to spend my […]
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 […]
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 […]
After getting so hyped up about roadtripping to PA, I feel like it would be a disservice to whoever is actually still reading my ramblings to not say anything about the trip. It was awesome. Drove up from Texas to Pittsburgh, by way of St. Louis. While we were in St. Louis, we got to […]
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