Pi in the Sky

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

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.

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