It is a sobering thought that when Evariste Galois was my age, he had been dead for 3 years
Or, for a more heartening example, when Alexander was my age, he was conquering Egypt. What have I done?
Apparently I'm an adult. Or so I'm told; I don't believe it. Sure, you could put actual evidence, like people my age getting married, or having real jobs, but I don't think I'm convinced. I certainly don't feel mature.
I think I've got a courseload worked out, which involves taking French during May and June while I'm trying to solve an open problem on zeta functions of hyperelliptic curves over finite fields. One of these days I'll have to take a course outside the math department that is both a graduate level course and related to math in some way, and computational linguistics fits the bill, but I'm taking too much next semester, and it's not offered in spring. But I'll probably take it in 2006. The scary thing, which in fact brought up the discussion above, was when my advisor was talking to me and saying he should take it too, since the subject looked interesting. Since when are my professors allowed to be people too? He's unquestionably an adult! Eventually I'll start running out of excuses and have to be mature...
And speaking of immaturity, roughly 12 people came to the class I teach today. The date: 4/20. Coincidence?
Apparently I'm an adult. Or so I'm told; I don't believe it. Sure, you could put actual evidence, like people my age getting married, or having real jobs, but I don't think I'm convinced. I certainly don't feel mature.
I think I've got a courseload worked out, which involves taking French during May and June while I'm trying to solve an open problem on zeta functions of hyperelliptic curves over finite fields. One of these days I'll have to take a course outside the math department that is both a graduate level course and related to math in some way, and computational linguistics fits the bill, but I'm taking too much next semester, and it's not offered in spring. But I'll probably take it in 2006. The scary thing, which in fact brought up the discussion above, was when my advisor was talking to me and saying he should take it too, since the subject looked interesting. Since when are my professors allowed to be people too? He's unquestionably an adult! Eventually I'll start running out of excuses and have to be mature...
And speaking of immaturity, roughly 12 people came to the class I teach today. The date: 4/20. Coincidence?