Posted in October 2013

Hello dear reader,

a “few” hours have passed and now I finally have/make the time to create my first blog. Before I continue, let me introduce myself by telling my name.
I am Seb Harrevelt.
At this moment I am still 22 years old, or 1182 weeks old, or 8276 days old. What I really really like to do is to workout/sport, at this moment it is some
combination of running/swimming/cycling. I would also like to let you know that my favorite food is risotto…
Since you already know that I study ‘Applied Mathematics’, you now know almost every (important) thing about me!

What you did not know is that I am in the second year of my master. In general, the first year of the master consists of (self chosen) courses and in the
second year you can do an internship and eventually graduate.
There are some other choices you can make, but most people do this.

At this moment I still need to do two courses, do an internship and graduate (of course). Besides these obligations I am also thinking about my future,
as in what to do after my graduation. This is still some vague idea that I have, where there is no certainty whatsoever. Let’s hope that this changes
throughout the year.

In the semester I follow three courses (yeah, that is one more than I need to do.. but I just like this one in particular). The names of the courses are
Stochastic Processes, Bio Environmental Statistics and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). All together I have 7-8 hours of college, it is really not
that much. On Monday and Tuesday I don´t have any lectures at all!
But that doesn´t mean that I have nothing to do, oh no, not even close. In the/my master it is very common to have few lectures but you have to
work a lot on your own/at home.

Later on I will tell you something more about the type of courses they are. For now it is good to know that two of them involve statistics (as you can read..)
and the other (CFD) is about finding/computing numerical  solution to (eliptic/hyperbolic) problems.

Let us look at a picture:

The very last thing that I would like to add to this first post.. is that the second year of the master is fun and scary at the same time. The idea
that you are almost done with your study, almost need to find a job, almost need to leave your home and find one yourself, and so on..
is kinda scary.
But at the other hand, I can start “applying” all the things that I have learned in my study. The knowledge I have gathered is getting really
useful and the things I can do are getting somewhat meaningful. Which is really nice to see.

That’s it for now!

PS: Next Sunday (20th of  October) I will run the half marathon in Amsterdam, last year I almost won the race.. came in second:

Hello this will be my first blog as an ‘Applied Mathematician’!

For now, this is it. Later on, like in a few hours or so, I will add more (useful) text.