now that i've been schooling for over a week...

i can tell you how things are going at school...
the two classes that i am enrolled in are:

1.partial differential equations (pde)
2.number theory reading course


pde is an area of mathematics i have never touched, even as an undergraduate; the reason i've avoided it is that it's basically applied math...

i have nothing against applied math now, but put me back in the days when i was full of that youthful (immature, in my case) energy, i simply dismissed it as a bastardized version of mathematics; it was disgusting to my palate, even without tasting it...

not that i've grown all that much, but i believe it is important to broaden my horizons, even if it's within the area of mathematics;

the professor for the pde course is this tiny little lady that speaks english with the thickest french accent; the class is boring so far, but the accent helps me engage with the class, making me curious to see from the board what she is actually saying, like "derivatives."


the number theory class is reading a ton of research papers; this is probably the hardest part as a graduate student in math; the professor speaks english with the thickest russian accent; he's totally a nice guy; the topic is completely engaging, and 90% of the time, the material goes way over my head...


i am auditing a course in analytic function theory; the professor speaks english with a very mild german accent; compared to the others, he sounds like a native speaker; he is an older gent, but he is a total charmer (in a classy way); i would say when he was younger, he was probably beating back the ladies with a stick... play on, player.


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