Based on the commentary I've heard from grad students, getting truly good at math is on par with bringing the ring to Mt. Doom in terms of difficulty, if not danger.
Oh, I at least somewhat disagree with that. The form of mathematics is extremely difficult and even somewhat obscurantist. The content is, while not easy, no harder than any of the other difficult intellectual skills we regularly teach to intelligent people, and gets easier with practice just like everything else.
No, the miserable thing is when someone starts out into "Let there be a Blah from the set Herp, then define its Bibbity to be the Derp such that De Hurr..." when what they really mean is, "I will prove a theorem quantified over al...
Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to comment on this thread explaining the most awesome thing you've done this month. You may be as blatantly proud of yourself as you feel. You may unabashedly consider yourself the coolest freaking person ever because of that awesome thing you're dying to tell everyone about. This is the place to do just that.
Remember, however, that this isn't any kind of progress thread. Nor is it any kind of proposal thread. This thread is solely for people to talk about the awesome things they have done. Not "will do". Not "are working on". Have already done. This is to cultivate an environment of object level productivity rather than meta-productivity methods.
So, what's the coolest thing you've done this month?