Destination: USA

Photos: General

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 | By xiaix | Photo Gallery

Almost time!

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 | By xiaix | Views [288]

Getting ready for G Adventures "Taste of Turkey" trip with my daughter. Less than two days until my flight! I hope I remembered everything, and that not booking the direct flights was not a mistake. Flying on Alitalia through Rome going (With a 90 ... Read more >

Tags: anticipation, turkey

Chat-Up Lines

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 | By yoshic | Views [146]

I was never any good at chatting up girls; could rarely think of a stunning one-line to hook their interest in a loud pub or heaving club. It is not a skill which age has honed, I can tell you. 65 days in, and trying to initiate a conversation ... Read more >

Monday Again

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 | By kakimono | Views [339]

During analysis, we moved on to measurable functions on an arbitrary measurable space. It was almost entirely new material, but there were some concepts, like lim sup and lim inf that I'd encountered in my full semester undergraduate, which came as a ... Read more >

Tags: analysis, homology, math, thompson group

Photos: New York, June 2015

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 | By los4words | Photo Gallery

New York the hotel-less way

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 | By los4words | Views [475]

I’d not been to New York before and wondered how it could outdo Chicago for the drama of its urban landscape. Well (and mercifully), Chicago didn’t have a Ground Zero to give it the edge. Expect more hustle and bustle, noise and crowds ... Read more >

Tags: airbnb, airport, chelsea, ferry, highline, staten, statue, theater

You Can Never Go Home Again

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 | By wanderingeli | Views [326]

The explosion of feathers behind the ottoman reminds me that I am in the company of mighty hunters, whose bloodlust can only be sated by the sound of opening a can of tuna - ahi tuna mind you, only the best around these parts.  I myself slurped ... Read more >

Tags: cats, home, house-sitting, nostalgia, pacific northwest, pnw, rural, seattle, urban, washington

Sunday Math

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 | By kakimono | Views [298]

On Sunday, it was time to actually do math again. In the early afternoon, we met up in the lounge to look at the problem that Dr. Farley had given us over the weekend. (By which I mean 10 o'clock the night before.) It was a three part problem, though ... Read more >

Tags: math, movie, music

Saturday Explorations

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 | By kakimono | Views [305]

Saturday was, by most measures, a fairly dull day. I wandered around campus for a while in the early afternoon. This led to several kinds of interesting discoveries, ranging from cool to creepy. “Cool” describes the formal gardens.They ... Read more >

Tags: gardens, music, puzzle, walking

It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Attacked by a Dog

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 | By kakimono | Views [406]

So I realized that my write-ups tend to end shortly after class. Which isn't really intentional, I just run out of energy after finishing describing all of the time I spent in math classes. (I run out of energy after all the time I spend in math classes ... Read more >

Tags: chance, food, games, music

Photos: St. Mary's Glacier

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 | By middlemalizia | Photo Gallery

St. Mary's Glacier Colorado

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 | By middlemalizia | Views [415]

St. Mary's Glacier Hiking Buddy/Boyfriend: Matt WIldlife: Birds and Squirrels Elevation: 10,848 Mileage: 1.5 (one way) middlemalizia.com I'm always on the hunt for a shorter hike to take visitors who are not used to the altitude, but ... Read more >

Tags: alpine lakes, colorado, colorado wild, glacier, glaciering, hammock, hiking, idaho springs, st. mary, wanderlust

Another Week Down

Sun, 21 Jun 2015 | By kakimono | Views [315]

Friday's class began with a definition of simplicial complexes. I knew a little bit about them from the presentation one of my classmates had given at the end of last semester. However, in his presentation, he'd jumped right into the realization instead ... Read more >

Tags: analysis, diagram groups, homology, math

Crop Circles; and other signs of returning home

Sun, 21 Jun 2015 | By wanderingeli | Views [450]

I wonder how many of the TSA agents are just having a really bad day.  Things like that plague me; how often it is that human emotional turmoil interferes with the mundane tasks that may or may not have occasionally drastic consequences.  ... Read more >

Tags: airports, alien, crop circles, disney, home, orlando, planes, seattle, tsa, west coast

Having Fun Isn't Hard When You Have Your Library Card

Sun, 21 Jun 2015 | By kakimono | Views [454]

Thursday was the algebra short course. As with analysis, we were moving on to more advanced material that we might encounter in more detail in a graduate course. It began with a description of Zorn's Lemma, and an application to prove that every proper ... Read more >

Tags: abstract algebra, diagram, library, math, trees