Category Archives: General

Math Jokes

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Tyler Clark

I think we could all use a little laughter to help us continue through our studying. I was reading through Carrie Eaton’s Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/mathprofcarrie) page yesterday and found a quite humorous joke. , and were in a bar. looked sad. … Continue reading →

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Disaster Strikes

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Laura Zirbel

So my trusty MacBook has been on the way out for a week or so. While on vacation, I got the modern equivalent of a sad mac face, the question mark of doom.

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Dissonance in the Classroom

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Derek Smith

I’m currently TA for two sections, one at 12:30 and another at 2:30. The other day, the students had a midterm from 11-12. They didn’t yet have a new homework assigment, so the instructor asked me to answer questions from … Continue reading →

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The Glory of Starting Over

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Melanie Laffin

After finishing a Master’s program in Discrete Mathematics last spring, I moved onto a PhD program in a (completely) different school. Whereas the Master’s was very focused on very esoteric fields of math, the PhD program I’m in has a … Continue reading →

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The virtue of verbosity

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Luke Wolcott

Doing math has trained me to communicate concisely, tersely even.  As I became more and more socialized into my math department, my email correspondences became shorter and denser.  At some point, friends in other departments (e.g. Gender Studies, Communications) started … Continue reading →

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