the running theme of my life is a cautionary tale about putting things off to the last minute
things i have put off to the last minute this year:
- a homework for noncommutative algebra that i knew about for almost 2 years, i finished it on the last day the professor was available to receive it, and also a week before my masters thesis was due
- a lie group homework and oral exam, which i knew about for over half a year, that i finished and handed in on the last possible day, and had the oral exam on the last possible day, a week before my masters thesis is is due
-my masters thesis, which i knew about for about a year, the rough draft of which was due yesterday, that i properly started on friday, because before that i had other things to do (i also didn’t have anything to do for like half a year, because i left everything for the very last week of school). i still haven’t finished even the rough draft, so maybe i will finally learn my lesson
i’m meeting my adviser on thursday, after i sent him the, like 15 pages of the required 40 yesterday in poor condition, and he replied “come see me on thursday” so obviously i’m very nervous. technically i have about a week to hand in the final version, but my adviser is going on a holiday this friday and won’t be back for two weeks, which is three days before my defence, so he will not be able to look through the final work. this might mean he refuses to sign off on it - the small sample of my work that he has is not good either - which means i might not be able to graduate, which sucks. obviously i am terrified and i hope i don’t cry in front of my professor
also if anyone knows a nice proof that doesn’t require many prerequisites of the fact that every Banach space admits a hypercyclic operator i’d be very grateful
