April 28, 2007

  • 2 weeks

    getting over being sick - main signs of it now are being horribly miserable for the first 40 minutes of the day as I cough nastiness out of my throat. That stuff is a very wrong color.

    Thursday: big ass analysis homework due (started), stochastic presentation (the IDEAS are there - I don't even know what software I'm using to create the slides)

    Aside about slide software: keep your audience in mind. When you have a teacher who says "the board is fine. you can _even_ use technology if you want. I guess." and smirks, you probably do not want to lay a multimedia ppt on the guy. But if you do a barebones pdf that looks familiarly like many many math talks he's seen before, he's more likely to take you seriously. Or at least that is my guess as the psychology of my situation. Anyway - Ideally I'll figure out how to do the hideous LaTex ones that seem so popular. Otherwise I will try OpenOffice on the basis of a) will make pdf b) rumor says will take LaTex codes in the equation editor.

    This is the last week of classes. After that I will have one final - and we will all be in deep fear of the prelims. And that is why I will read another chapter of that horrible analysis book. Also, I want to finish it so I can sell it. We are united in not liking it. (It gives me something to bond with the current crop of Intro to Analysis students on.)

    (Yesterday, my advisor tells me "you should take 3 hours every day and work the old tests." Somehow, I don't think I'll be quite that good.)