I graduated from college roughly 6 years ago. I’ve had it in my mind since about junior year (of college) that my college GPA was so low because of the liberal arts classes I had to take – the humanities courses that had nothing to do with my major that I didn’t care about and […]
I feel like I should post this here, since I’ve talked about this issue before (in particular: here and here). This week an article/letter/piece was published in the opinion section of the New York Times (here) written by a retired politics professor that is disturbing to me. He makes several claims and arguments that I fundamentally […]
I can’t say that I know the right way of doing things. But I can certainly identify the WRONG way of doing things. And America, you’re doing it all wrong. As I grow further and further into adulthood and meet more and more people with backgrounds different from my own, I grow more and more […]
This semester is very different from my last 3. Mostly because I really like every class I’m taking. I haven’t had a semester in which I was engaged in EVERY class I was taking since second semester of senior year of college. Right now I’m taking the core graduate topology course, a course on Lie […]
First of all, most of you who know me know that I have been pretty opposed to teaching as a profession for myself for quite a long time for quite a lot of reasons. I absolutely would never teach at the grade school level (I HATE being around children, plus I feel like I’d be […]
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