Back In.
Slipping back into Williams-y life. There are some good points to this but I shouldn't take it too far.
Some folks have brought it to my attention that I seem to be in the middle of abandoning Minnesota. And I may well be, letting my choices speak for themselves. A couple of days (mostly spent Up North at Giants Ridge) in January, a week and a half over Spring Break, and five days before I got back here are all that I've seen, and plan to see, of my fair state this year. So where does that leave me?
Indecisive about the future. Grad school will happen. In ecology, because that's the only thing that makes sense now. Not teleologically. I haven't backed myself into a corner here through mistake, chance, or history. It's the systematic method of examining the world (or more in the spirit of the speech, one of the systematic methods of examining the world) that makes sense for me. No idea yet if it means anything. But a year or two off would definitely not hurt anything.
And Minnesota is floating in this matrix of possibilities. Not a 2-rank tensor of course. But I'll be damned if matrix doesn't have its root in "mother."
Enough rambling. I've moved into Sage B407. I improvised some sculptural stuff to make things more interesting. phippstarr's beanbag is sitting nicely in a corner. It's alright. 'Cept for the heat. Cross-ventilation only helps when the wind is blowing which is negatively correlated with conditions under which wind helps. Suck.
Also, thanks to sandomi's mother for treating us all to dinner!
Some folks have brought it to my attention that I seem to be in the middle of abandoning Minnesota. And I may well be, letting my choices speak for themselves. A couple of days (mostly spent Up North at Giants Ridge) in January, a week and a half over Spring Break, and five days before I got back here are all that I've seen, and plan to see, of my fair state this year. So where does that leave me?
Indecisive about the future. Grad school will happen. In ecology, because that's the only thing that makes sense now. Not teleologically. I haven't backed myself into a corner here through mistake, chance, or history. It's the systematic method of examining the world (or more in the spirit of the speech, one of the systematic methods of examining the world) that makes sense for me. No idea yet if it means anything. But a year or two off would definitely not hurt anything.
And Minnesota is floating in this matrix of possibilities. Not a 2-rank tensor of course. But I'll be damned if matrix doesn't have its root in "mother."
Enough rambling. I've moved into Sage B407. I improvised some sculptural stuff to make things more interesting. phippstarr's beanbag is sitting nicely in a corner. It's alright. 'Cept for the heat. Cross-ventilation only helps when the wind is blowing which is negatively correlated with conditions under which wind helps. Suck.
Also, thanks to sandomi's mother for treating us all to dinner!