Category Archives: Grad student life

A Reflection on Giving Talks

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez

Acknowledgments: Special THANKS to Matthias Beck, Ben Braun, Pamela Harris, Max Hlavacek, Mariel Supina, Julie Vega, and the Discrete Geometry Group/The Villa at FU Berlin. I recently came back from a research visit to the Freie Universität in Berlin where … Continue reading →

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Dear first year, this isn’t something you can plan for (Part 3)

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Hannah Barta

In case you want to catch up: here are Parts 1 & 2 of my first-year journey. We like to think that our life stories have happy endings, perhaps that we can carefully partition our lives into fourths of each … Continue reading →

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Solvitur Ambulando

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Aram Bingham

An algebraist, a finitist, and a determinist walk into a statistics classroom. They are all the same person and worse: the teacher, so the joke is on the students. For reasons still partly obscure to me, my department has given … Continue reading →

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Dear first year, this isn’t something you can plan for (Part 1)

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Hannah Barta

I still remember how hopeful I was when I started. I had come off a high-performance undergraduate career, with a rockin’ CV full of contributed talks (including one at Joint Mathematics Meetings and the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in … Continue reading →

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What I wish I knew in the first two years

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Julianne Vega

At the end of last summer, I had the pleasure of leading a pre-orientation for incoming graduate students. We had four three-hour meetings over the course week and our only main objective was to read through “Six ways to sum … Continue reading →

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