Just to let people know that I'll be coming out of what may well be my last exam ever at 12.30 on Monday. You're all welcome to come along; I haven't got any kind of detailed plan, but it will probably involve some kind of picnic and possibly croquet.

Good luck to everyone who's still got exams!

Merton.

I'm pretty pleased about this. By the paperwork it was my second choice behind Magdalen, but really that was because I'd had to pick an ordering on them - I think they both look fantastic and hadn't deeply considered which I'd prefer.

I dreamed again that I flew the other night.

I found that if I flapped my arms quite fast, in a manner faintly reminiscent of a chicken, then I was just light enough to generate lift and get myself off the ground. My friends expressed mild surprise, as while they knew it was possible they didn't realise that one could go so high (at this point I was ( Read more... )

So, it looks like I'm going to be staying in Oxford for a few more years ( Read more... )

Just to point out that there's going to be a total eclipse of the moon on Saturday (22:44 to 23:57), and it's going to turn red under the light of all the world's sunrises and sunsets.

Based on experience this morning, it seems to me that while we have a tendency to forget dreams shortly after waking, they are not truly forgotten, and can be recalled in other dreams. It's almost as if there's a partition in the brain between dream memory and normal memory. At times, like shortly after waking, it's possible to access both, ( Read more... )

Regard this as an apologetic present for never actually posting anything about me in my livejournal, if you like.

Alternatively, don't. But enjoy anyway:

Mathematical music & an animation showing where it comes from.

Well, looks like I'm going to be spending most of the summer in Oxford ( Read more... )

Now I can look back with nostalgia on the four days spent modelling irrigation systems. The powers of ten dropped and gained indiscriminately, the glee on discovering that our model worked (!), the disbelief that it bore any resemblance to reality.

It all serves as a lovely reminder of why I prefer pure maths.

This, the first sentence in my first post, is curiously devoid of any interesting information. The second sentence has delusions of grandeur and speaks of itself exclusively in the third person, but nevertheless informs the patient reader that the self-reference will stop soon ( Read more... )