Friday, February 26, 2010

concentration and its dire consequences.

i essentially have a 1-track mind.

for me to be able to write a paper, it helps to ignore everything else -- a bad habit from my thesis writing days, i guess. back then, i had no other responsibilities, so it caused no real harm to anyone ..

.. whereas in the here and now,
i had no time to proofread a quiz carefully;

subsequently 80+ students ended up taking that quiz and running into some rather ugly numbers in one computation as well as an ill-posed problem.

this should make tomorrow's class .. interesting.

the paper is still not done. i wonder if i can finish it by end of march, for the AMS Sectional ..

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