This is a “hot topic” among mathematicians recently, I guess. At the very least, a bunch of my fellow grad students have weighed in on the topic recently. So, I know nobody else may care what my opinion is, but I wanted to voice it SOMEWHERE. Facebook seemed like the wrong place for a long-winded […]
Yesterday I completely finished reading and typing two years (four semesters) worth of algebra notes. (One year undergrad, one year graduate.) I’d been working on it with varying intensity and focus for about one month, so it feels really good to be done with that. (Aside: For any non-math people that may still be reading […]
Good news, finally made some more measurable progress in studying this weekend. And this week I’m going to really kick it into high gear. Today begins the last week of the first summer session. I have two more homework assignments to grade then I won’t have any work to do for the rest of the […]
Grading for a class that you’re not teaching is weird. I mean, I really like the idea of large universities helping out professors teaching the large classes by hiring people to grade the homework for them (or using software to manage homework, which I haven’t fully formed an opinion on yet. When I teach College […]
So, in reading over old algebra notes, I am now thinking “This isn’t that bad. It should be easy to study for this qualifying exam.” To punish myself, I am now going to actually do some of the math (work out some of the problems, proofs, and exercises without my notes), instead of just skimming […]
Finally figured out what I’m doing this summer. I’ll be getting a little less than 2 months’ worth of pay (compared to normal monthly paychecks during the last school year) for the 3 months of summer. (Which is good; it’s more than I expected to earn through departmental support this summer.) I was originally scheduled […]
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