My qual was intense! I spent the first five minutes panicking, but then managed to calm down. Here are my thoughts:
- As expected, Prof. Bell gave a reasonable qual - his past quals were very predictive of this one, and I'd recommend studying from them for future students.
- I should have spent more time on harmonic functions!
- On problem 2 (contour integral problem
$ \int_0^\infty \frac{\cos(8x)}{x^2+1} \, dx $
if I remember right), I totally drew a blank, so I wrote that I was whiffing on this one but explained my ideas for solving it if I could just get the inequalities to work. - I'm glad we practiced so many problems - it helped me to get into a rhythm during the qual.
