10.12.12 by Jacek Jarczynski
It is now almost 10 pm in Beer Sheva and I am unwinding from what was a very productive, exhausting but overall excellent day. There was much to review for an upcoming biostatistics exam. My friend Ashley and I put in a solid 7 hours doing practice problems and making sure we were clear on the conceptual ends of the material. Much was accomplished today and tomorrow will be the final push as far as the studying is concerned. After tomorrow it will be just a matter of knocking out the exam. That was the business end of things for the day. In the evening the books were temporarily retired and I decided to take a walk through Beer Sheva with no destination in mind. Just wanted to clear my head and decompress. On Fridays after sundown the town becomes very quiet and there are relatively few cars on the roads. It is now much cooler in the evening here and most of the time there is a pleasant breeze zipping by. I was walking down Be...