Since it’s been relatively (cough) quiet around here, despite promises to the contrary, I’ll add a summary of my highlights of 2005, and hope that that will shed a bit of light on the latter half of the year, where many of you might not have heard as much as promised from me.
January
- After my botched oral exam, I got my Diplom in Technomathematik from Uni Karlsruhe.
- Went to Amsterdam with Josie for some fun. Crappier hostels along the year still make me yearn for the Flying Pig. :)
February
- Started work at Prof. Dörfler’s institute, teaching and generally having fun with Jan, Kim and all the others.
- Finished the month with a week-long snowboard vacation in Gleiming with Robert, Kiki, Frank and Lippe. Des war cool.
- Got admitted to Brown Graduate School.
March
- Work in Karlsruhe is in full force before the semester has begun, with bits of research and administrative software.
- At the end of the month, I fly out to New York, then Providence, then DC and finally Raleigh to take a brief look at the graduate school from which I had