I just made the decision to take a break from my studies. I've been thinking about this for a while now but I just now made up my mind about it.

The last semester really burned me out, studying mathematics full time on a fairly advanced level is time consuming, fucking hard and exhausting.

As the fall semester approaches I can't muster up the energy to go on with this right now.

The plan is to get a shitty job and work during the autumn and winter, become super bored and then continue with my mathematics with renewed motivation and energy.

This is scary but a little liberating and exciting at the same time. Let's see how things turn out.

Update 2021: lol it didn't turn out so great.