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That is, these are her questions for me. If you would like questions, leave a comment, and I will answer it with some questions I have about you. Then you can post your own answers and/ or offer to ask questions of other people.
1. What does your username mean, or where does it come from?
It comes from a make-believe game I was playing with a friend in about 7th (maybe 6th?) grade. We were warriors or sorceresses or something (or both) and we made up names for ourselves, and then we made up other names to keep our real, powerful names from being known to our enemies. I use it because I hate making up user names, and because no one else ever has it.
2. What, if anything, would you tell your ten-year-old self now?
I don't know. I'm not sure I'm smart enough to figure out what my ten-year-old self would be better off for knowing.
3. What's the best thing about math?
So pretty! I think what I mean by this is that it's really neat to be able to really see what is true in a system and why, and especially to find nice reasons for it, clear proofs of things that don't seem, at first glance, to have easy proofs. But also really just to be able to find good unshakeable reasons at all. The whole rest of the world is all muddy, and what seems right might turn out not to be, with more evidence. But new evidence won't make a good proof wrong, it can only make you want to look at a different system of axioms, and that doesn't invalidate any of your old work.
4. Do you have a general sentiment about Chicago? The city, I mean, separate from your purpose in being there.
I'm kind of fond of it because there are places I know from trips down with my family or my school. But basically it's very big and that's weird and perhaps frightening. But the scariness is alleviated by the fact that I will be spending all my time near Lake Michigan, and I find Lake Michigan very comforting, because I grew up with it as a fixture of the world. As I told Cedar, in elementary school we learned the compass directions by starting with "The lake is east." So I'm excited to be somewhere where that is meaningful, and which in general feels a lot like home, architecturally, even though it is SO BIG.
5. What imaginary creature would you most like to be real?
Fairies. I firmly believed they WERE real until i was about ten. I don't think we'd really see them much, if they were real, because they would be too smart too often let us. But maybe occasionally at night in the Arb or somewhere, and that would be pretty exciting.
1. What does your username mean, or where does it come from?
It comes from a make-believe game I was playing with a friend in about 7th (maybe 6th?) grade. We were warriors or sorceresses or something (or both) and we made up names for ourselves, and then we made up other names to keep our real, powerful names from being known to our enemies. I use it because I hate making up user names, and because no one else ever has it.
2. What, if anything, would you tell your ten-year-old self now?
I don't know. I'm not sure I'm smart enough to figure out what my ten-year-old self would be better off for knowing.
3. What's the best thing about math?
So pretty! I think what I mean by this is that it's really neat to be able to really see what is true in a system and why, and especially to find nice reasons for it, clear proofs of things that don't seem, at first glance, to have easy proofs. But also really just to be able to find good unshakeable reasons at all. The whole rest of the world is all muddy, and what seems right might turn out not to be, with more evidence. But new evidence won't make a good proof wrong, it can only make you want to look at a different system of axioms, and that doesn't invalidate any of your old work.
4. Do you have a general sentiment about Chicago? The city, I mean, separate from your purpose in being there.
I'm kind of fond of it because there are places I know from trips down with my family or my school. But basically it's very big and that's weird and perhaps frightening. But the scariness is alleviated by the fact that I will be spending all my time near Lake Michigan, and I find Lake Michigan very comforting, because I grew up with it as a fixture of the world. As I told Cedar, in elementary school we learned the compass directions by starting with "The lake is east." So I'm excited to be somewhere where that is meaningful, and which in general feels a lot like home, architecturally, even though it is SO BIG.
5. What imaginary creature would you most like to be real?
Fairies. I firmly believed they WERE real until i was about ten. I don't think we'd really see them much, if they were real, because they would be too smart too often let us. But maybe occasionally at night in the Arb or somewhere, and that would be pretty exciting.
