Hey everybody, I know I haven't been posting for quite some time. It's been a hard couple of months for me, but things are settling down. I have been taking math classes at College Park, and I intend to go into graduate school in pure math rather than physics (as I last claimed on this blog) or applied math as I had suggested to others.
Why pure math? The basic answer is that I'm pretty decent at it and I think it's the least likely for me to become dissatisfied with the direction of the field. Nobody really knows what the math of social science will look like, but it seems likely to me that some of it still needs to be invented. The physicists working on social science research projects tend to use models commonly in use to study physical processes, and once we exhaust those it will be up to mathematicians to provide better models. I envision getting similarly frustrated in physics as I was in psychology, and pure math seems to invite the least stagnation.
I'm concerned, though, that I'll be only a mediocre mathematician. But I suppose I'd rather be that than a terrific psychologist. I suppose I'll figure out more about my abilities as time goes on.
