An Ode to a (Semi-)Productive Summer


The academic summer is officially over in an hour! Let’s review the goals I specified in May (or June or whenever):

  • Actually study for the GRE/GRE math subject test. FAIL. Loser.
  • Rock calculus. DONE!
  • Rock summer teaching. DONE!
  • Go back up to Vancouver and walk the hell out of that city. FAIL. We were going to go up there, but plans fell through.
  • Figure out what’s going down next fall as far as teaching goes. DONE!
  • Figure out what’s going down for the rest of my life as far as everything goes. Uh…working on it?
  • Hit at least 1000 walking miles. DONE!
  • Thoroughly delve into Antognazza’s Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography. DONE! <3
  • Reacquaint myself with my old linear algebra notes. I looked over them a few times and decided to take linear algebra again, so DONE sort of?
  • Possibly visit Sean? FAIL. Too expensive. I’m sad.
  • Spend a weekend doing absolutely nothing but Minecraft/drawing/sitting in my basement away from everyone. I don’t think I actually spent a whole weekend in the house. GOTTA WALK! So…FAIL?
  • Research possible graduate schools (AGAIN, UGH). DONE! Canada’s on my radar again.
  • A few other things that are private. ALL OF THESE WERE FAIL

Maybe it wasn’t as productive as I thought.  But I did get Phase I of a big project done (which is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time) and am currently on Phase II, so that’s kind of good.

What sayest thou? Speak!