Well, hello, friends! Since spring break it’s been a flurry of things to do. I thought life would slow down until finals geared up, but that hasn’t been the case. Two weekends ago I went to my first math conference as a grad student. That was a lot of fun. I got to meet new […]
I would like to take a few minutes out of my insanely busy and stressful life to talk to all of you about an issue near and dear to my heart. Oops I’m sorry. That previous paragraph is exactly the type of thing that is discouraged. The workplace, and society at large, is no place […]
It’s the Monday morning after spring break. I had happily forgotten what it’s like to be up at 6AM and start working at 7AM every morning. But here I am again. It was a glorious, productive, and restful spring break. I slept in every day. I graded a homework assignment. I did some math-reading and […]
There’s something both comforting and a little embarrassing/disgusting about having a “usual” at a food or beverage place. I don’t mean you order the same thing every time you go there, and that’s your “usual;” lots of people do that. I mean, when you walk in, the people who work there already start making your […]
This semester is very different from my last 3. Mostly because I really like every class I’m taking. I haven’t had a semester in which I was engaged in EVERY class I was taking since second semester of senior year of college. Right now I’m taking the core graduate topology course, a course on Lie […]
The thing about grad school is… when you have a lot to say about it, because a lot is going on, there is no time to write, because THERE’S SO MUCH GOING ON! The spring semester is finally in full swing. I’m a little stressed about this week’s deadlines. It’s only so difficult because for […]
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