Yes, I’m still part of this world. I haven’t been posting because I’ve been working on my thesis and recently, I’ve been preparing for a race this Saturday. I’m still doing the rowing thing and somehow my coach thinks I’m good enough to be in a boat during a race. If we’re rowing against people as unskilled as I am right now, then we have a chance. However, since this is not very likely, I’ve been practicing with my “crew” rather frequently to increasing the chance of us not being dead last. I’ll be rowing 2 races: a men’s four and a men’s eight. The hardest thing will be for me to get up early on Saturday; the race in the men’s four starts at 9:30am, and I have to be on the water by 9am.
My thesis is going well, though a bit slower than I would like. It will consist of two major chapters. The first will be on my paper of integer points in backwards orbits, and the second will be on my recent result on polynomials orbits modulo p. Hopefully, I will have a rough draft in a week or so. I need to have everything done by June 24th for submission, and I’ve have until sometime in August to make any corrections to the final copy. I am planning defending August 12th, but I that will depend on the availability of my committee members.
