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#1 New York Times Bestselling Novelist Aprilynne Pike Goes to Medical School: The FAQ

In “The Slow Boat to Tenure” I noted that 2025 was my “De Morgan year”–I turned “the age X in the year X squared.” Serendipitous, that this mathematical curiosity should coincide with my reaching tenured faculty status at Florida Tech! Auspicious as the timing was, however, this promotion was not my household’s most significant event of 2025. The most significant event in my household last year was my wife‘s admission to medical school. Then why…

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The Slow Boat to Tenure

The Year of Our Lord 2025 is my De Morgan year. Famed logician Augustus De Morgan was studying to become a lawyer when an opportunity to go into academia arose. He took it, and good thing–“De Morgan’s laws” are an important tool for developing (among other things) the device on which you are reading this (unless, for some reason, someone printed it onto paper for you, I guess). He also tutored Ada Lovelace, the woman…

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