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After I wrote about how I was homeless by choice as a college senior and off-and-on as a grad student, the number one question people seem to have is, how did I shower, wash my clothes, and so on? If the question were just “how does one shower while homeless on campus, in general“, then [...]

You’ve probably already read about how I was homeless by choice in grad school and the last year of undergrad. In undergrad I slept in the physics undergrad lounge, and occasionally the library or CS building. In grad school I slept in my office. The most common criticism people seem to bring up is: “Isn’t [...]

During my senior year of undergraduate, I was homeless by choice. That doesn’t mean I was living on the street. I was quite comfortable, I slept well, I ate well, I had plenty of money, and no one knew I was homeless unless I told them. It was such a great gig, I continued it [...]

In 2006, there was something a little unusual about the University of Arizona Distinguished Graduate in Mathematics (that’s me, by the way). Yes, he was eccentric, but that’s not what I’m getting at. What was really unusual about that 4.0-earning senior was that he was homeless by choice. This is the story of homelessness by [...]

Advertisements are constantly telling us that to be happy, we have to have lots of stuff. Here at GlowingFaceLabs, we never take anything for granted, so we did some investigations into the true relationship between happiness and material success. This research was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (Yeah right. I wish.) [...]