22nd
Man, I work a lot these days
Whenever someone asks me what’s new, I want to say something like, “I realized I could do induction on the degree of a polynomial over ALL fields at the same time, rather than just picking an arbitrary field and only working with polynomials over it, and BOY has that made my life easier.”
Because really, except for occasional climbing wall excursions or exercise classes (I love Smith perks!), meals, and deliberate clear-my-head-from-all-this-math breaks, all I do is work.
I think I like it enough, for now. I have math friends! Which means for the first time that spending all day on homework doesn’t mean spending all day alone. And the whole point is that it’s the kind of work I love. It’s just really different from the work-life balance I’ve always striven for.
