The Blog’s Future
Even if it was rather quiet on my blog over the last few months, I had a really exciting time. Let’s dive quickly into a brief overview what’s happened:
- We, my girlfriend and I, renewed our relationship. Quite exciting since I never thought we would be back together again and that our bond could be much tighter than ever before. Gladly, I was wrong in both places.
- The project group AugNet II, a necessity of the examination regulations of Paderborn’s master course in computer science, is going very well. Frankly, I thought the project group would be a real “pain in the ass” after the experiences gained from the “Softwaretechnikpraktikum” in 2007.
- Lectures attended to: Computer Graphics II, Data- and Information-Visualization, Coding Theory I+II (data compression and error correction), Complexity Theory II. Exciting stuff, but especially the projects for the first ones were sort of costly in terms of labor. Anyway, all exams turned out very, very well for me.
- Student research assistant: After (successfully) talking about over an alternative characterization of the algebraic complexity classes VPe (arithmetic formulae) and VPs (skew arithmetic circuits), based on a paper by U. Flarup, P. Koiran and L. Lyaudet, I fueled my hopes and chances for a student research assistance in the field of algebraic complexity theory. It’s even more important keeping my graduation plans (Ph.D.) in mind, hopefully in exactly this field of research.
So, why does that matter, especially how is it related to the blog’s future? Each one of the items mentioned above contributes directly to my happiness, sense of fulfillment, my purpose in life, my dreams, hopes and wishes. And since my blog is all about that kind of stuff, that relates directly to it as well.
What to take from this summarization? Well, a few months ago my grades were excellent, but all of the other points, in summary my future both in private and professional life, were out of balance and a little fuzzy. Now, everything seems to work out very well for me.
Why? Because I continuously pushed myself (aside the other points, mentioned in Richard St. John’s TED Talk), never gave up and always reviewed how the world responded to my actions. Personal growth is essential to grow professionally, too, so don’t waste your time only pushing yourself professionally; also (especially) push yourself personally.
