i passed!

so much for my master to do list. it was wishful thinking. i made it through items 1-6, but haven't thought a lick about 7 or 8.

the main thing to note is -- #5 is DONE! no more studying french just to translate 3 pages of math... i'm no longer ABDALE, i'm just ABD (all but dissertation)... really now. no more hoops to jump through except the thesis. it's a good feeling.

7 and 8 had a chance of getting done if #5 hadn't been so hard to do. i meant to take the exam at 1:30, but the REU seminar lasted until 2, and by then something had come up and the prof i meant to take the exam with had something else come up. he emailed me around 4 that he'd be around at 5:30 or sometime tomorrow. i got his email at 5:20 so i waited outside his office. after another series of crazy events, he showed up around 6, by which time the math library was closed (oops)... luckily, he had some french math books in his office, and i got to translate 3 pages of one of those... and as of 7 tonight i'm done!

tomorrow i have a super exciting (maybe) meeting with the undergraduate chair of the math dept. he wants to discuss the results of the computer survey i invented and sent to all the rutgers calc 3 kids last semester. in return for trying to improve the public university math world, i get extra meetings... oh well. :P it means that they care enough to listen for at least a little bit, right?

the plan for the night? forget about the rest of my to do list and crash with a movie.

the czechs are making me dinner tomorrow night. i'm excited.

the end.