A Quick Summer Update
Date Written: June 27, 2023; Last Modified: June 27, 2023To the loyal follower(s?) of this website, of which there are few, if any…
I feel quite bad that I haven’t been able to keep up with updating this website during the schoolyear. I think it’s in part due to not quite knowing exactly what to post or say here, and I haven’t really consolidated a theme for the content of this website (despite it being nearly a year since its birth). It’s definitely in part due to being busy with coursework during my last year as an undergraduate.
Some updates are in order, and I aim to keep up with these updates throughout the summer. I’ll be in China visiting relatives for the next few weeks, however, so it’s up in the air how plausible this really is.
First, I’m going to try to upload all of my class projects from the past few years to the my work page. They’re not great, but looking back at them now, I think there’s a substantial amount of improvement that’s worth keeping track of moving forward.
Second, I will be studying for UCLA’s analysis and algebra qualifying exams (AKA “quals”). I will likely get dunked on by the algebra qual, and there is a non-negligible chance that I will also get dunked on by the analysis qual. This is nevertheless an opportunity to keep track of my learning and progress. I’ll be doing a handful of dry runs of either exam over the course of the summer, and I’ll post updates about interesting problems, roadblocks, and epiphanies that I run into along the way.
Third, Logan Hyslop is co-organising a learning seminar on prismatic cohomology this summer. I have severely limited knowledge of its adjacent fields, so I suspect I will struggle to keep up. I’m already behind because of all the travelling. Nonetheless, I’ll do my best to attend each talk and take a little something away from it each time.
For those who care, I just graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s in mathematics, and I’ll be starting my Ph. D. in pure math at UCLA this coming fall. I am hoping that my website will become more lively by the time that happens.
Many people in my own life were quite excited about graduation, but I’ve never really felt the same. At this point in my life in particular, it feels like I’ve graduated middle school — I’m proud of my accomplishments, but something far greater and much more demanding lies right ahead of me. Things are very uncertain at the moment, and though celebrations of successes are fine, I think I’m just preoccupied with the road ahead.