Complete routine

I described the details, for the most part, in my previous blog, but in the meantime, I have started my preparatory reading and I have hence acquired new insights. I must say that the tone of the entire work is quite different from what I am used to from my university lectures and textbooks. To a certain extent my project will, in fact, be in a relatively uncharted area of mathematics, or so I like to think. And thus it looks as though I have a summer full of exploration ahead.

This year's exams were not too different from what I saw last year. There was, however, one important difference: this year counts. This made the experience a notch more stressful, so at least the examiners spread them out. In practice, this meant that within ten days I went through ten exams. By the end of all this turmoil, I had forgotten what it felt like not to have any exams at all; I got so absorbed by this mindset that I started to see this as complete routine. A week later I do not understand how this was possible.

The transformation at the end of exams was simply radical. The relief, however, is only arriving gradually. I will, therefore, be spending the next two weeks in the countryside, so as to clean my mind and be able to start over fresh. In particular, I am organising a summer camp for, among others, children from a children's home. The sandstone cliffs of the Bohemian Paradise will provide me with a perfect backdrop to accomplish this.