Giving Thanks

Hello gentle readers,

Life here in Budapest has been a little rough for me this October, but the great thing about life is that somehow it is always beautiful. Here are a few things I give thanks for:
:) You people! If you're reading this blog, then you're among my support group and I thank you for caring. ;)
:) The internet - while I may have my own time-management issues which are magnified by the internet's power, thanks to the internet I can a)talk with my family and good friends back home, b) chat with my dear college buddies whom I miss a lot, and c) keep tabs on some very special people, especially a special special person Myles who is pretty new to life but already a great blogger. ;)
:) The folks I've met here - especially my roommate, who is always honest and open and laughs at me when I am crazy and promises me peanut butter & raisins for spending less time in front of the computer
:) I am sure there are many more things for which I am grateful...like these couple of days off of school...but I can't possibly list 'em all. ;)

Take care, my friends!

O Irony

Hello blogosphere!!! I know it's been a little while since last I posted. I had a CRAZY week last week, kind of like a 5th degree polynomial. --->

On Friday I was walking home from school, and I realized that I have a problem. I am an internet addict. As I walked home past Rozsak tere and the beautiful Catholic church there and statue of Szent Erzse'bet (St. Elizabeth), I acknowlegded my problem and then had an urgent desire to blog about it. O the irony!!! The world wide web is a wonderful tool - very powerful. But like many webs, one can become entangled therein, particularly when one has succumbed to the ravages of procrastination. I know, I know, "we all procrastinate." And it certainly isn't news to my 'fan-base' that I am a procrastinator. But let me direct your attention to the local minimum near x=2 in the graph to the right - that was this last weekend, when I had done no homework but I somehow managed to catch up on 2 seasons of the TV show Bones.

At any rate, my 'tude function as illustrated above is now once again increasing, which is great news! I have a Number Theory midterm this Thursday, and a couple of problem sets due tomorrow that still need to be hammered out, but Things are Looking Up. One of many great aspects of mathematics - you can use mathematics to describe SO MUCH. Life, philosophy, and even well-accepted applications for math such as physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, statistics...etc.

This is my FAVORITE example of mathematically expressing parts of life generally considered non-mathematical:



Go to http://kleinfour.com for more fun...

And now, I must get back to hitting the books. Don't worry, they can take it!
I will leave you with the gentle croonings of James Blunt:



Ooooh. He has such a yummy voice.

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