soooo tired. I’m excited about all my classes and projects. And my schedule looks like it will work.

Until the notices for seminars and meeting job candidates start rolling in. And the extra work to keep nursing our less and less likely econ paper along. Then I start wondering how I will get enough work hours, let alone enough downtime. Cross your fingers for quick hiring decisions from both depts!

Off to go make bread and consider reading more functional analysis. (Also: I think I love both my Functional Analysis and Bayesian books. mmm. readable texts.)

“3. Within six months of successful completion of the written exam and/or oral follow-up, the student must give an oral research proposal before the advisory committee. The purpose of this presentation is to determine the feasibility of the student’s proposed thesis topic. The research proposal is open to the public and must be advertised at least two weeks prior to the presentation. The student will be provided a detailed summary of the committee’s assessment and recommendations. At the discretion of the advisory committee, a student may be asked to give a subsequent oral proposal at a later date.” – graduate handbook

SIX MONTHS. I had a faint scary memory of six WEEKS. Six months is incredibly doable. Comps in March – I can definitely have a proposal together by Sept.

WOOT!

and then at least my geeky schedule won’t be self-imposed.

I’m down to the last day of notes from EDA – then it’s time to make sure I can still do all the problems from the homeworks and tests. The math stat problems I’ve been doing have been going surprisingly smoothly. There’s one chapter where I definitely need to bone up on the theorems, and a couple of tricky standard problems I need to memorize the tricks from, but overall I have the warm feeling of having actually learned the subject.

Researchwise I’ve got some nice simulation code set up and figured out how to run it on the server. And a list of papers to collect and read. But first I need to dig into my algorithms and see why they’re performing so badly

It looks like I’m going to be entering my first judo tournament next weekend. It’s surprisingly pricey, but eh – it’s at my local club so I couldn’t ask for a less scary first tournament.