Vershun’s Brain Dump

Twice today.  So it goes.

Shooting some handguns helped.

I love everyone I’ve interacted with since I’ve left; I’m perpetually impressed with them.

So thank you to Drug Wall knife lady, guy who chased me down a couple city blocks because my water bottle fell out of my backpack, the “open trail policy” ranger, the Dubai chick, the sleepy gas station guy, the laundry mat laser lady, and I suppose (semi-begrudgingly) even Subway girl.

Thank you Liz for your fantastic phone-tour of Rapid City.

To Mira and her sister for meeting me randomly in Iowa for lunch.  No doubt kicked some ridiculous ass on the MCATs.

Thank you Lauren for your understanding and always willing to talk when I’m down.

To Laura who is one of the most intelligent and hilarious girls I know.  I can’t get enough of you (we’ve tried multiple times at supersaturation).  I hope you enjoy your time in South America and I’ll be seeing you in New York.

Doug.  What can I say?  Even thousands of miles and months and months gone you’re still one of the biggest influences in my life.  I’ve always been amazed with how you can talk intelligently about anything.  Thanks for dealing with all my math shit recently.  I miss you man.

Of course my Mom and Dad, who fund a good portion of my nonsense and who are always there when I need to talk.  Thank you Dad for talking with me about math today; formulating a concrete question really has helped focus my argument.

Thank you Sam, family, and Morgan for letting me stay with you and being fantastic hosts.  I’ve never felt so welcome.

Thank you to Q, Posp and friends for letting me hang out for the night with you guys.  The shish kabobs were amazing and if I ever need to hula hoop in a life-or-death situation you guys basically saved my life.

Special thanks to Ryan and Asia.  You both spoil me entirely and I can’t express how grateful I am for you both letting me stay with you.  I’m learning so much here.

And lastly, to my new (or new project at least) business partners.  Let’s makes some monies.

If work settles down this week expect a huge rambling blog about the fallibility of mathematics.  I’ve been thinking about it way too much not to go on some stupid and meaningless tangent about it.