I should really be studying

We have another long break this weekend, and I wanted to go to Vienna of Milan, but the tickets are really expensive right now. So, I guess I'll just spend the weekend exploring Budapest, which I have not done much of so far. I did manage to get out last weekend and see some of the more prominent tourist attractions, like parliament and St. Istvan's cathedral. I took some nice pictures too, even though the flash on my camera doesn't work anymore and the weather wasn't ideal.

It's the time of the semester when we get to prove ourselves through midterms, and I have had two out of four so far. I did well on my geometry midterm, but messed up my conjecture and proof exam pretty badly. I'm not looking forward to my algebra midterm, either. I attribute a lot of it due to not knowing how to study for that class, but also that I've been sick since I got back from Prague and have barely been able to concentrate. The symptoms are finally starting to ebb and I feel much better. Before I forget, here are some pictures:

This is a bridge

This is the inside of St. Istvan's Cathedral. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the whole place is covered in gold. Also, the mummified hand of St. Istvan is on display, but wasn't available when I was there.

The castle has these watchtowers around it, which are fun to stand in, and look out of. Also, they remind of LoTR.If you climb to the top of St. Istvan's, you can get a good view of the city. The day I went was pretty cloudy and foggy (you can kind of tell from the picture), but the building in the back is the Parliament.

I think this weekend I'll try to visit the medicinal baths, and maybe statue park too.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about math, and I think I'm going to start changing my focus from pure math to applied stuff, so that I can have some tools to study economics. Also, I want to take a semester off of school and just travel...I wonder what my parents will think of that?