next academic year: summer first, fun, and vacation.

it seems as if i just finished all my exams, and i left yale’s campus yesterday (two weeks ago or so). but now all of a sudden, i am selecting my courses for next year (or getting a rough idea), thinking of fellowships, and even considering my plans for next summer. this is the first time that i have ever faced such a thing. i’ve always felt after spring comes summer, and there is no rush to start these things before their proper time. this year must be different because i am so excited to be at yale, and i have at least part of my schedule for next year already. 

next summer, i’d like to consider the following things: studying abroad, internships in public service, working for a startup, returning to work in technology, or studying pure and applied logic. i am also considering which PhD/JD programs and schools to which i will apply and what i desire to study. this will probably be the second largest academic decision that i’ve ever had to make, but i will not have to make that decision until the following year. 

next academic year, i will probably do three to four classes in the fall (depending on funding and if i assist in teaching a section), and three to four in the spring. i really want to finish a course on algebraic number theory and one on probability theory. i think that probability is going to be fun. 

speaking of fun, i have to do something that is really exciting this summer. i’m thinking either six flags new england or caribou maine? yes, i would love to hike through caribou maine. i have no idea why, but i really want to do that. i suppose that i want to hike through maine because when in nature, i feel truly free: my cell phone doesn’t get service, laptop doesn’t have wireless, batteries don’t last forever.

i guess what i mean to say is that i am free from technology, and thus, disconnected from the rest of the world. so am i really describing being free or liberty, or neither? whatever case i am describing, i still enjoy it. more importantly, i have time to think about things and relax when in nature; not that i don’t have time to think about things while in civilization. however, when camping or hiking and being in the north east, thinking is a different thing: there are no distractions. the clarity of thought that one can realize in nature, to me, is greater than what one can realize in busy city life. now i’ll have to see if the proposition i present is true or false. 

until next time.