life by the numbers

one mathematician’s outlook on life, the universe, and everything.

Archive for April, 2008

Upcoming…

These are some things that I am looking forward to: (in approximately chronological order)

  • Eating dessert. (tonight)
  • Sleeping. (always)
  • Seeing Christine in a couple weeks. (hopefully)
  • Playing Grand Theft Auto IV – comes out on April 29, and you know I’ll be in line at midnight to pick up my copy (for 360, of course).
  • Moving to and setting up my new place. (May 22)
  • Being done with one year of grad school. (June 18)
  • Getting married (and everything that goes along with that). (July 26)
  • Having Zim and Amy up here at UCI with me and Christine. (August sometime)

These are some things that I’m not looking forward to:

  • Teaching class at 8:00 a.m. (tomorrow)
  • Studying. (all the time)
  • Grading midterms. (sometime next month)
  • Taking finals. (Mid-June)
  • Taking comprehensive exams, which are way worse than finals. (Late June)
  • Death. (date unknown)

These are some things I don’t understand:

  • Why I have to study analysis when I want to go into applied cryptography.
  • Why similar linear operators have the same eigenvalues.
  • Why you’d want to live here (in Los Angeles, that is).
  • What becomes of me.

If you haven’t before, you should check out my links to friends websites, because there’s some good content on each of them.

Until next post, adios.

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