First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having disappeared off the blogosphere!" And it's true - I am sorry! I don't know what
So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter with Alan Guth? If you don't, quick synopsis: my section hadn't received