Graduation and the Road Ahead, Behind, Sideways...

Many months have passed since my last blog entry. I apologize for that. My last semester at MIT was an enjoyable one. I got to take Victor Guillemin's course, 18.952 - Theory of Differential Forms, with a friend of mine and I always love chatting about courses with people.

I have put together a Googlepages page summarizing my academic work and projects from the past four years. It can be accessed here:

Justin M. Curry - The Collected Works of a Philosopher-Mathematician

I know it sounds depressing, but I, along with many of those graduating in 2008, have really struggled with "letting go" and leaving my undergraduate career behind and entering the "real world." Granted the real world for the next 5 years will be graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, working with any of the fine mathematicians there, but still, the idyllic times of college have come to an end. You can see my proof of purchase below:





Sasha and I had a wonderful time decorating our mortarboards - a quirky re-capturing of an otherwise boring ceremony - making it an individualized expression of coming to terms with our frenetic time at MIT. I discovered that one of the best ways to make a three-dimensional "8" is to first make a mobius strip and then pinch the middle together. From the photo you can see that Sasha has spelled "MIT" using Feynman Diagrams and I have contented myself with a knockoff of one of the many variants on the MIT logo.

How did I get here from my last blog post on January 20, 2008? Over 5 months have passed and no letter to my internet home? What gives? I will hope to answer some of these questions in the next couple of posts. Most of these recent posts were written around the end of June and the beginning of July, but I have altered the dates to present them in a given order. This post I'm dating June 6th, 2008 to reflect my graduation date. The one below I've dated April 15th to symbolize the common notification deadline for graduate schools in the U.S. I hope you enjoy my re-telling of these stories!