Category Archives: General

Discount on Textbooks

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Kareem Carr

Update. Left over discount codes: mathgradwilliamsmb, 50% off; mathgradmb, 15% off. Please feel free to use them. The first fifteen people to email me at from a .EDU email account will receive a coupon code for 15% off textbooks at … Continue reading →

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Are Mathematics Students Expected to Forgo Pure Mathematics?

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Jean Joseph

If a student is asked “What do you study?” and she answers “Mathematics,” it is likely that the next question is “Ah! What do you do with that?”. And if she does not find an immediate answer because this question … Continue reading →

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Letting Students Leave Discussion

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Laura Zirbel

By Laura Zirbel Summer session is challenging here at UCSB. Students take summer classes for one of two reasons: They are responsible and are foregoing the beach and video games to get ahead in their studies, or They failed the … Continue reading →

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How to: organize a seminar or reading group

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Luke Wolcott

Here are some tips, garnered from my experience organizing a seminar (on “The Mathematical Experience” – the experience, not the book) a few years in a row. They supplement Asher Auel’s comments in an older post. I encourage anyone else … Continue reading →

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The Unbearable Ease of Being Overnetworked

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Melanie Laffin

When I started graduate school, the first piece of advice that I was given by a senior graduate student was to network as much as possible. Which, at the beginning of my graduate career, I replied, “What the hell am … Continue reading →

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