{"id":21707,"date":"2012-12-08T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=21707"},"modified":"2013-04-05T01:40:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:40:17","slug":"whatdowedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/12\/08\/whatdowedo\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Do!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 28, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MathUpdate\" target=\"_blank\">@MathUpdate<\/a>\u00a0tweeted a link to a Quora topic titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Mathematics\/What-do-grad-students-in-math-do-all-day?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=t.co\" target=\"_blank\"><em>What do grad students in math do all day?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Khalid Kalbat suggested a Big Bang Theory segment as an explanation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Big Bang Theory :Eye Of The Tiger Scene\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_WPgDO3BAXM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I personally never hear\u00a0<em>Eye of the Tiger<\/em> in my head while working, but I do have other tunes running through my head while working. I also completely relate to the RedBull and Advil (Ibuprofen for me).<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Kun gives the following list:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Write down a problem.<\/li>\n<li>Think hard.<\/li>\n<li>Write down a solution.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Unfortunately, I typically run into other intermediate step. See the following flow chart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-21709\" title=\"MathGradStudentChart\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/12\/Yep.jpg\" alt=\"MathGradStudentChart\" width=\"404\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/12\/Yep.jpg 1602w, https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/12\/Yep-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/12\/Yep-958x1024.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">What would your flow chart look like? (Flowchart base Tikz code on <a href=\"http:\/\/tex.stackexchange.com\/questions\/39296\/simulating-hand-drawn-lines\" target=\"_blank\">Stack Exchange<\/a>; you can download the code for this specific flowchart <a href=\"http:\/\/tylermath.com\/TylerClarkGradStudentFlowChart.tex\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Do you think the explanations on Quora are accurate?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 28, @MathUpdate\u00a0tweeted a link to a Quora topic titled\u00a0What do grad students in math do all day? Khalid Kalbat suggested a Big Bang Theory segment as an explanation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/12\/08\/whatdowedo\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-math"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-5E7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22759,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21707\/revisions\/22759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}