Category Archives: Advice

How to Survive Grad School as a Woman in STEM

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Susannah Shoemaker

There are certain moments from grad school that will always stick with me: the conference in Boston where my usually quiet lab mate opened up to me; the nights I spent drinking cheap beer with my closest friends in the … Continue reading →

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On “Imposter Syndrome”

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Tom Gannon

Here’s how it happens: You’re in graduate school and were one of the best people in your major from your school. Honestly, that’s how you got into graduate school in the first place. You go in the first few weeks, you … Continue reading →

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Using Groupworthy Tasks to Increase Student Engagement

Posted on January 9, 2017 by James Sheldon

There has been an ongoing call in mathematics education for students to be engaging in problem solving and collaborative groupwork.  Although, many instructors find that when they put students in groups, some students seem disengaged and we may start to … Continue reading →

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Lego Grad Student

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Matthew Simonson

The biggest coffee break/procrastination craze sweeping the grad student world since phdcomics or xkcd: http://legogradstudent.tumblr.com/

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The Role of Generalization in Advanced Mathematical Thinking

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Mohammed Kaabar

Generalization and abstraction both play an important role in the minds of mathematics students as they study higher-level concepts. In the second chapter of the Springer book Advanced Mathematical Thinking, Tommy Dreyfus defines generalization as the derivation or induction from something particular to something … Continue reading →

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