Studying. Forever. Last night I had dreams about Riemann-Liouville integrals. It's like the Tetris Effect but with convolutions. I don't know what's wrong with me.
On the one hand, the idea that you can take integrals and derivatives of orders that aren't integers like we learned about in high school is literally the coolest thing in the world. On the other hand, life starts to get kind of lonely when you're the kind of person who thinks that fractional calculus is the coolest thing in the world.
But I have been trying to have fun with it. Any SCP-Wiki fans? I figured out that the Spiral Path can be described mathematically using some results from tensor analysis, so I've spent some time trying to do that because I've had a need to practice differential geometry.
I've been working part time, just enough to make rent, and doing slave labor research at school for my program. Pro-tip, if anyone needs some extra money, Amazon Mechanical Turk is a great way to do it.
Also, I've been learning to play viola lately. I spent some time trying to learn violin at first but I'm too tall and my hands are too big, sadly. But viola is a much better fit for me, so it's been pretty fun doing that.
