Networks

** I wrote this about two weeks ago and intended to do more with it, but, I'll put it up now and move on to more things shortly **

As most of you are probably aware, the strangest things bring strong memories to mind. I was just playing with my wireless to try and connect to a finnicky network, and brought up the list of networks my computer has information stored about. Right now, they span 3 continents (if you count Europe and Asia separately, and I'm going to), and run from ColgateStudents and Rostra (4 months ago) to Novenstern (3 months), BBUser and Beppu3f (2 months) and IES 3.Stock (7 days ago). That's Colgate, home, Sarah's apartment, the hostel in Beppu, and finally this building here on Erbprinzenstraße in Freiburg. It's a nice reminder of how far I've come these last few months (quite literally) and that maybe I have enough ground to be a bit stressed out by it all. So many new places in the last 3 months, so many new things.

Today I attended my first Übung - exercise, which apparently means a small group of students take turns showing other students how to do problems. I haven't done math in the last four months, pretty much, since around the last time I was using Rostra and ColgateStudents as network connections, so, that was another pearl of experience on the necklace of embarrassing foreign experiences. Apparently, I haven't been taught all that much rigorous math at Colgate. There is a lot of linear algebra that I just do not have right now, and I'm going to have to learn some night soon. Preferably before Sarah comes on Thursday!