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Sweet Sushi
I know your past experience suggests otherwise, but this one is actually about sushi! Or at least, it's more about sushi than any of my previous entries.
You see, nothing says "classy" quite like caviar does...
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Pita Bread!
Actually, I don't know how to make real pita bread. This variant is unleavened and cooked in a dry frying pan so that you can watch them inflate.
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Somerville Adventure Log
Every time I go have an adventure in Boston, I seem to get more of an adventure than I bargained for. It was going to be just a little walk through Boston to the Causeway and back through Cambridge, but that changed when I got to the Causeway. Things I have learned today, partial list:
- The Causeway is cars-only. No pedestrians. :(
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Sophomore and Junior Years in Review III: Life Will Be Just Fine
Okay, strictly speaking it's not quite true that "life will be just fine". The Darwin Awards stories quickly put an end to that fantasy. Still, beyond a certain point, worry becomes counterproductive, and it's okay for me to trust my future self to do the best he can with the best I can give him.
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Sophomore and Junior Years in Review II: Delve
Sophomore year, I co-taught AP music theory for ESP's Delve program. I owe a lot to a much more competent coteacher and just-in-time formal instruction for anything I managed to achieve there.
That said, I had some problems. I struggled to get our two students to engage with the material (while one engaged his fingernail painfully with a folding ( Read more... ) -
Sophomore and Junior Years in Review I: Learning the Rules of Music
Hey, artists! Has anybody ever told you to "learn the rules before you break them"?
I think this is extremely poisonous advice.
As a young artist, it hurts to hear that your work has no value until you spend years learning the right way to do it. The implication that you should refrain from even trying until then is nothing but discouragement.
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Conversations
It's pretty cool that I can have mathy conversations with people on my hall; it takes a special kind of craziness to enjoy arguing about the difference between supremum and essential supremum at 2 AM.
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ARML 2010: Adventure Log
Thursday
It's nice to know that the Eastern MA coaches are getting used to me. For the first time, I don't think any of them mistook me for a contest participant. As for me, I'm getting used to being a minion.
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ARML 2010
In less than six hours, I'm going to be on my way to my seventh ARML-and my third as a coaches' minion and Power Round grader.
You can catch me by phone any time it's on. Alternatively, you can e-mail me for the number; I'll probably be at a D'oh1 on Thursday or Friday evening checking my e-mail.
Whatever you're doing this weekend, good luck!
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Sups and Sandwiches
The phrase of the night: "Analysis is about sups and sandwiches."
This post isn't about analysis, though. It's about math words. Today I want to draw your attention to the words "algebra", "field", and "exact".
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