Category Archives: General

NY Times Education News Devotes Issue to Graduate School

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Derek Smith

The education section of the NY Times has recently published a special grad school issue. More Americans than ever are going to grad school, thanks to stubbornly high unemployment. And so this issue is devoted to all those acronyms beyond … Continue reading →

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Math Class Discussion Style

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Tyler Clark

by Tyler Clark I am applying for an assistantship and to be eligible, I have to be observed by a professor. Due to conflicts in schedule, I could not teach for one of the College Algebra courses. Instead, I was … Continue reading →

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Sorting and Reading All Those Papers

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Laura Zirbel

By Laura Zirbel Last month, I wrote about how to get and read papers from the arXiv in Google Reader. Now that we have all these papers, and have filtered out the ones we want to read, how do we … Continue reading →

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The Pigeonhole Principle

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Melanie Laffin

By Melanie Laffin We have all heard the analogy of how we, as humans, are a fraction of a speck of dust with regard to the vastness of the universe. If we ceased to exist, the universe would really not … Continue reading →

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PhD + epsilon Summer Vacation Article

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Tyler Clark

by Tyler Clark Adriana Salerno has made an interesting post on the PhD + Epsilon blog. She talks about how complicated summer is for math professors. Her to-do list for this summer consists of “submit at least one of two … Continue reading →

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