January 2012
7 posts
pleasure in the details: 20 New Year’s... →
measuringlife: From Thought Catalog (obviously) and I couldn’t agree more.
Before you status update, Tweet, Tumble or Instagram, pause and say to yourself, “is it entirely necessary that I share this morsel of thought with my entire social network?”and if the answer is not, “yes, I…
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via especiallygold)
I think one of the most important thing I have ever learned is to keep my mouth shut sometimes.
I wish others would learn the same.
just me and a bottle of champagne
was supposed to be the title of my NYE confession/what-I-want-out-of-life post. frack.
not that I drank a bottle of champagne or anything.
2012
For a very long time, the year 2012 meant one thing: the year I would graduate college. While I was in high school, it was more of a “damn, I’m not going to graduate until 2012!” Whereas now, it’s more of a “holy shit, it’s already 2012!”
I will be graduating this year. It’s kind of terrifying. Mostly because graduating means taking me away from the...
December 2011
28 posts
1 tag
Sometimes I wonder about someone that I haven’t spoken too/seen in a very long time. So I go through great lengths to stalk their Facebook and find out minute details about their life. And afterwards, I realize that I didn’t actually care.
Friend: How do I find you on tumblr?
Me: You don't.
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places....”
– Ernest Hemingway
1 tag
do you like to protest?
‘cause you can occupy my bed.
One of the reasons why I’m so terrified to leave San Diego is because of the people here. Most of the people that I choose to hang out with are people whom I feel I can be completely myself with. In fact, it is these people who have helped me grow so much during my time in college. So I worry that I will have to hold part of myself back with the people I meet/befriend/live with next year.
...
to-do list for winter break:
learn LaTeX
read up on future research topic
sleep, a lot
attend Joint Mathematics Meeting in Boston (yeeeee!)
hang out with everyone that I can
read
“I used to get upset by my Mom and Dad’s drinking…I used to cry, ‘You guys...”
– Kathy Griffin (via sloregasmm)
“Let X equal the quantity of all quantities of X. Let X equal the cold. It is...”
– Proof (movie)
hubris
A friend and I had a conversation today about why Mathematicians are so egotistical. It’s true that much of mathematics is beyond comprehension to any person outside of the field, and this does add to our ego. But in the end I think we agreed that it is, at the core, a defense mechanism. Most people hate math. I know, because 90% of the people that I meet tell me so when they ask what my...
November 2011
18 posts
fuck you
you clearly don’t know me well enough to know what I’m actually going through, so you have no right to say shit.
will I always look back and laugh at the times when I thought I had it all figured out? or will I one day realize that I actually knew back then, and somewhere along the way I fucked it up?
If I’ve learned anything in college, it is that it doesn’t matter where you come from, what high school you went to, or what undergraduate institution you attend. You will meet amazing people everywhere you go, and if you work hard you can end up anywhere you want to.
Sometimes I wonder if you can ever really know someone. What is it, to know them? To live with them? To know their past? Their goals for the future? To hear them tell you things they’ve never told anyone else before?
And if I don’t know how to know someone else, do I really know myself?
The thing is, being a math major is kind of like being in an abusive relationship. It kicks you around, beats the crap out of you, and you just get up and ask for more. When it’s good, it’s good. But when it’s bad, it’s really bad.
It’s not uncommon for me to feel inadequate in my classes. But usually, a few days later I figure things out or do well on a midterm or...
Notes from Princeton
July 7, 2011
I’m currently at Princeton attending a Summer Program in Analysis and Geometry. Today was the second day of lecture of the first week, the topic for the week is The Geometry of General Relativity. I’ve been introduced to ideas and topics that I’ve never heard of before; Riemannian manifolds, geodesics, the list goes on. I have very little idea of what it is that we’re talking about...
