I’m back, bitches! (Sorry, I felt compelled to say that even though it’s awkward and lame.) I promise: I’m still alive. And after some time away (almost 3 months!), I’m back to chronicling my adventures in math grad school. There’s a lot going on this semester (and a lot happened last semester and over the […]
Three weeks from today is Thanksgiving. In five weeks I’ll be in Pennsylvania for my friend’s wedding. In six weeks the semester will be over. In seven and a half weeks it will be Christmas. I can’t believe winter is so close. Some days this time of year, Texas is its old self – yesterday […]
It’s Friday morning. So, I should be in for a low stress day of coasting into the weekend? Of course not. This morning, I taught at 9AM. I had office hours until 8:50 and a student actually came to ask questions, so I didn’t get to class as early as I normally do. I walked […]
Thursday and Friday of last week I was really feeling a lot of pressure. I had a lot of work hanging over my head, and I felt like I had lost a few battles throughout the week. It really felt like grad school again. The first few weeks of the semester had been kind of […]
Sorry that lately my blog has become more about my adventures in teaching than my adventures in grad school or Texas, but this is the first semester I’m teaching my own class, so it’s new and somewhat exciting and that’s what I want to talk about. I drafted my first exam this week. I wrote […]
Later today, football will be in full swing. Some training camps have already started, and teams can sign drafted rookies and rookie free agents. Yesterday teams were allowed to start cutting players. But today they can start signing contracts with free agents, and that’s where the magic happens. I wanted to take the time to […]
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