*Sigh.* That is NOT a sigh of annoyance, but a sigh of relief. This is the first week of grad school that I haven’t felt immensely stressed to do 900 things at once. Last week I had a major presentation on Monday, a major assignment due on Wednesday, and an exam on Thursday. And I […]
So, analysis exam #2 is in 2 days. (Yes, instead of studying right now, I am blogging. I’m a terrible grad student.) It’s my last exam in any of my classes before finals. Yikes! I feel pretty good about my first semester as a graduate student so far, but I’m trying not to get too […]
So, as you probably already know, last Sunday the date was 10-10-10. Math grad students don’t really need any more reason than that to have a party, let me tell you. (Actually, the idea is stolen from The Office. There’s an episode in season 1 when a 05-05-05 party is referenced.) It was an all-out […]
As you all know, I’ve been teaching pre-calculus recitations this semester. In my department, for the first semester there is a class taken by all new grad students that are teaching in which we basically learn about teaching and share stories and get advice and whatnot. We have little teaching exercises intended to help us […]
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 […]
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