Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

1. It still surprises me, to the point of it being seemingly magical, how hot water can clean plates so much better than cold water can.
2. A sign of reading thorough too many pages of Linear Algebra lecture notes is reading “exercise left to the reader” as “exercise left of the radar”.  Many times.
3. Maths lecturers copy lecture notes from each other.  Computer Science lecturers copy lecture notes from Wikipedia.
4. The act of my Scout coming into my room to empty the bin, seeing a stack of coke cans and empty pizza boxes piled up next to it, and the subsequent expression on her face as she turned to stare at me is enough to make anyone laugh, even at 8am.
5. Absence of lectures implies productivity.
6. Too much revision implies making website posts in mathematical language.
7. Look back at the first essay / problem sheet you did at university.  It will make you shudder, and you will want to apologise to the tutor who marked it.  (Sorry for my first MT analysis sheet…)
8. Nectar points, although essentially worthless, are worth more than the shopping itself once you have them.

And so ends today’s wisdom.