One semester in the books — Off to San Diego!

Well, the first semester of graduate school has come and gone, and I’m still alive to tell the tale. That’s a good sign. My finals week was actually all right, with the exception of the analysis final on Monday. It was awful. It did not go well for anyone, so there’s some solace in that. The thing I hate about analysis is that there can be such tricky problems; my inability to do well had nothing to do with my lack of knowledge, and everything to do well with the tricky kind of problems that he chose. Ah, well. It’s over.

The topology take-home exam was much better. It was difficult, and at times frustrating, but always interesting and occasionally fun. And the algebra exam yesterday was wonderful. It was only over ring theory, which is more my forte–just some basic questions on ideals and some on factorization. Gotta love it! So I think I destroyed that one.

And now I find myself on Christmas break. I am going to my mom’s in Sioux Falls on Sunday. I’ll be around there for a week or so…and then TCX, before heading out to San Diego for the Joint Meetings of the AMS/MAA on January 5. I’ll be there ’til the 9th, when I’ll fly back to Omaha and prepare for the semester. It will be grand.