Dissertation and other things

In the meantime, Brexit is scheduled to happen. But the British public has lost interest, I think. At the start of January, I would overhear a related word every now and then. But now my friends never talk about Brexit nor do I hear about it elsewhere. At least here is Oxford there has been a desensitisation to Brexit, Brexit fatigue if you will. After all, there is not much to talk about, since a lot of the important information is a big unknown. But the University of Oxford still wants Europeans and also my college has reassured me of this.

This term I only have one course and I spend the rest of the time on my dissertation. It is completely splendid and I am slowly approaching the upper word limit. I must say I simply love it. The last course that I am taking is Introduction to schemes. A completely innocuous name for a course which is conceptually a lot farther than other courses since it builds on four courses from last term. The goal of the course is to introduce us to the work of Alexander Grothendieck, who was a fascinating French mathematician of the twentieth century. I think it will do as my last, crowning course.