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Walking on Clouds
Coming home from Aunt Doris' house with my father the day after Christmas, the sky was filled with a cloud bank that stretched all the way to the horizon--big, blue clouds, so dark and solid, they looked like mountains. I remember dreaming about living in the mountains when I was a little girl and pretending on days like these that the clouds ( Read more... ) -
REUs, new apt., etc.
In addition to running the math club this semester, studying to CLEP out of macroeconomics, taking 3 high-level math courses, and practicing piano like a maniac, I have been applying to math REUs across the country. These are summer research programs funded by the National Science Foundation, and they are very competitive programs, you might even ( Read more... ) -
Babies!
Errands, errands. Just your normal day of errands. Except this day I ran into someone rather spectacular. The singular part was that he was only about eight years old ( Read more... ) -
Life Update
Beyond slight roommate difficulties, life has been great ( Read more... ) -
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Russell Rainville: "Amanda left the physics department where she could study astronomy to join the math department where she could study real aliens."
Mike Hughes: "I thought Paul Gies was on sabbatical." -
I Made a Little Difference
During the middle of my extremely hectic day today, I called my voice mail to check my messages. I was expecting a call from the dealership where I'm buying a car. Instead of a message about the hole I'm buying to continually throw money into, I hear the voice of a woman I'm currently tutoring in finite math--Tami. She said she thought I should ( Read more... ) -
For my Purposes
Names I like:
Girls:
Katya or Katja pronounced KAHT-yuh--Greek--Pure (character in movie The Inner Circle) FavoriteAnastasia--Greek--Resurrection ( Read more... )