So...lots of things happened these two days. Yesterday was the usual "try to get as much done as possible for the supervisor meeting" day. The meeting today was good, I think, sort of. It was delayed until 12, which is precisely the time the Nick asked us to pick up the take-home exam, which I did before going into the meeting. Now it's exam madness. At first I was tired, so I went to sleep, which sort of defeats the purpose of getting no sleep at all during take-home exams. Then I was frustrated with the questions. But now I feel better. A little bit. After having solved 3.5 questions out of 6. It's due tomorrow at 5, hope it all goes well...
I have to say, my brain hasn't been functioning well mathematically recently. Case in point, there's a graph that I drew which is supposed to have no labelled cycles, yet there is one right in front of my face that I didn't notice. In any case, there's an error that I found in a paper, but after several months of investigation, it turns out that the "mistake" didn't satisfy the hypothesis of the theorem, hence it's not a mistake after all. And in the most outrageous case, in one of my probabilistic assignments, I wrote down something like e^(ab+c) = (e^a)(e^b)+e^c...yikes...and this elicits the comment "back to junior high!" from Nick...hehe. So in conclusion, I shouldn't work in math.
Apparently I'm still an adolescent, which, well, you can probably tell already.
I have to say, my brain hasn't been functioning well mathematically recently. Case in point, there's a graph that I drew which is supposed to have no labelled cycles, yet there is one right in front of my face that I didn't notice. In any case, there's an error that I found in a paper, but after several months of investigation, it turns out that the "mistake" didn't satisfy the hypothesis of the theorem, hence it's not a mistake after all. And in the most outrageous case, in one of my probabilistic assignments, I wrote down something like e^(ab+c) = (e^a)(e^b)+e^c...yikes...and this elicits the comment "back to junior high!" from Nick...hehe. So in conclusion, I shouldn't work in math.
Apparently I'm still an adolescent, which, well, you can probably tell already.


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