Courses done!
The spring term at Waterloo is now over, classes done, exams written, final marks submitted. I was taking one course this — Semidefinite Optimization — and teaching one course this term — Linear Algebra. I’ll write more about my teaching experiences in a later post, but right now I’m celebrating being done classes forever! Semidefinite Optimization was the last course I needed to satisfy the course requirements for my PhD. With it under my belt, I will never have to take another class again. Since 1998, I’ve taken 44 courses, including 13 graduate-level courses, and now I’m done. To complete my PhD, I still have to do my second-stage comprehensive exam (a presentation about my thesis topic), and then write and defend my thesis, which is the bulk of the work, but it will be nice to be able to focus on research and not coursework.
