Glasgow (and Oxford) in Dundee

Yesterday, we went to Dundee for some sort of an education fair. This involved a two-hour drive (Scott picked me up outside St. George Cross at 7.30 a.m.), a whole day of handing out undergraduate prospectuses and answering questions, and a two-hour drive back. I don’t know about Scott, but I enjoyed it a lot; [...]

Like a Tree

I have just submitted my dissertation. I think I was the second one to submit; at least in the pile there only was one more. Outside the office there were about four or five  nervous people, clutching their works. The submission deadline is tomorrow.
I have a strange and sudden sensation (I love the English language! [...]

I See Why the Beast

I like this one:
 ‘Quasi-maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference in Dynamic Models with Time-Varying Covariances’. I think I should start a collection, something like a Hundred Article Titles Which I Find Fascinating. This one sounds like a poem almost, especially the ‘time-varying covariances’ bit.
I have to say, I truly envy the new students of the University [...]