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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Get more out of research




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Today's Confession

"I have no plan. I honestly thought life would end before this."

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Current Activities:

  • Dodging my advisor
  • Sending bad juju into the universe
  • Slacking off
  • Wondering why there aren't more hours in a day, days in a week
  • HATING homework
  • contemplating buying real estate
  • reading

Recent Readings :

  • Borges
  • Disquitiones Arithmeticae, Gauss
  • Eisebud
  • Introduction to Commutative Algebra, Atiyah, Macdonald
  • Kafka
  • Long Walk to Freedom , Nelson Mandela
  • The Prince, Machiavelli
  • This blog

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