What, me blog?

I've been mentally whining to myself lately about the lack of creative outlets in my current life. Hence, this blog. I am certainly not a writer (you'll see as you read, for sure). Instead, I've just started graduate school in the ridiculously broad, ambiguously defined field of Applied Mathematics. As a first year student, I'm required to take many rigorous core classes to build up my arsenal of fearsome mathematical weaponry. At this point I could wipe out whole armies of fire ants with epsilons and deltas, and use Fourier transforms to decompose the most formidable enemy into a pile of dust. It's not that science isn't a creative endeavor, even when we take the most reductionist approach to a given phenomenon. But I miss constructing something out of my own guts and sharing it with the world. I fear that if I don't soon, I might wake up one day and realize my guts are empty.