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As recently alluded to, I recently moved from my Little Ancestral Village in the Provinces to The Big City.
Short version: It has taken some getting used to, but maybe not quite as much as I expected, and I am really loving it.
As the title of this post says, I am starting The Big Push, the Last Hurrah of my undergraduate career. Right now it is April 10th. On May 19th, I defend my thesis, and on June 7th I graduate from Williams. Hopefully. That leaves just a little more than a month [...]
Yeah, I know it’s been a while, but I’m back. I think I’ve finally emerged from the existential black hole of the last couple of months (knock on wood), and despite a couple of start-of-the-semester road bumps in the last week, I’m feeling pretty good about my prospects for my last semester of college.
So I [...]
I gave my math colloquium today (on p-adic dynamical systems, boy-o!), which went quite well (despite a solid 48 hours of panic after a disastrous practice talk), and marks, as far as I can tell, one of the real milestones of my senior year. Things are going well in general, despite still not really [...]
Just kidding! But it has been a long time since I’ve been around here, so I would understand if you thought I was never coming back. Truth is, I’ve had quite a rough time getting back into the swing of things here at Williams, but I think I’m just about there. I at least can [...]
After a late-night soap-scum-scrubbing, mattress-chucking-down-stairs, cleaning and packing extravaganza I am officially on my way home. The plan is:
Tonight, staying with slightly cooky but wonderful family of friends of the family, watching the olympics and eating mint chocolate chip cookies
Tomorrow, bus to Indianapolis to crash with Lara and probably watch more olympics
Saturday, taxi to the [...]
I was staring down a thirty-page freight train of a paper, writing about music and well-named tools and generally hoping it would go away. It did go away, after many heavy sighs, panic attacks, and crippling self doubt—and many, many cups of coffee. I somehow managed thirty-eight pages of reasonably coherent writing in [...]
In reverse chronological order, no less! Tonight I watched the Red Sox finish getting swept by the Angels, over a pint of beer that was not an IPA that I actually really really liked. Earlier I got a call from Bob inviting me out for a sail, which was just the thing to [...]
What have I been up to, you ask? Well, a spot of wallowing in a day-long depressive funk, a little ultimate frisbee, nearly two and a half days of sheer geeking-out at NACAP, copious amounts of avoiding my Tibetan Studies paper, and almost actually getting somewhere with research now that Bob’s back in town. [...]
So I’m in Indiana now, for the summer. Forgot to mention that. I’m (kind of) hard at work on trying to find a project to start designing an experiment I may or may not run this summer, maybe about mora-timing in Japanese, or maybe about direct and mediated lexicon-access models. Hurrah!
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