boot camp day 8

hello hello -- well, last night i fell asleep to the cardinals game; i was extremely tired for some reason. when i woke up, i brushed my teeth and packed a lunch but then just decided to go back to bed. so i woke up very early this morning, around 7, and did a little bit of work this morning. classes went well; in analysis, we did lagrange multipliers, and then we did exercises; there was one problem that i was able to solve because of the work i did yesterday after class! so that worked out well. in linear algebra, the professor gave a really good lecture i thought! he's normally pretty good, but it can be a bit confusing because he goes very fast; today he went at a good pace and delivered the material in a good order; we learned about the diagonalization of normal operators. after classes, i went to the graduate lounge and thought about a problem for a little bit with daniel, the guy i worked with yesterday; then i played ping pong with a guy named rob for about an hour and a half; it was good ping pong, and i stole some knowledge from him. he gave me a good example to develop an idea about random variables and how to start to understand the idea of independence, which he thinks is the fundamental idea that makes probability important. he also told me about haar measure on compact topological groups, and he also described to me a proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra that uses the fundamental group, which was very cool. we came home because we got word of a gathering of people in magnolia court, which is one of the weyburn terrace courts. so we all sat around and drank a couple of beers; a guy named quinn had his guitar out there so i mostly entertained myself by playing guitar. i eventually decided to diverge from the group; they were going to possibly eat then catch a bus to the beach. i didn't quite feel up to going; i think i am very tired. (plus i may go tomorrow?) i am more in the mood to relax and listen to a cardinals game... maybe next week. anyway, thanks for reading! by the by, i recently gathered a bunch of tracks i had made recently and compiled them into an album: 'list' by general beauregard, which you can download here if you're interested.