{"id":32928,"date":"2019-11-04T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/?p=32928"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:30:18","slug":"interviewing-new-international-math-phd-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2019\/11\/04\/interviewing-new-international-math-phd-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviewing New International Math PhD Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>En route to my first year of graduate school, I packed up the three good pillows I have, moved a couple hundred miles, and planted myself in an apartment I had only seen in a grainy Face Time video. Hopefully in five or six years, I thought, someone will begrudgingly call me Dr. Zell.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the start of graduate school felt something like:<\/p>\n<p>Welcome! Everyone here is looking forward to seeing you succeed. Now, let&#8217;s not waste time. It is graduate school after all. Undergraduates waste time, but not <em>us<\/em> thrifty graduates! Are you ready to teach? Not quite? Well, up and at &#8217;em anyway! Oh, and expect to be challenged in all your classes. Bon voyage!<\/p>\n<p>Even though the transition from Virginia to Michigan felt gigantic to me, I quickly realized my immense privilege as I befriended peers who only recently arrived in America. It&#8217;s hard to compare the international students at Michigan, because they are so obviously different. At the same time, they do agree on a handful of things: it&#8217;s confusing (and sometimes intimidating) applying to graduate school in America. Getting a visa is annoying. Family should be closer than they are. And of course, American food is way too sweet.<\/p>\n<p>While the transition to graduate school may be confusing, and at times stressful, the international students at Michigan prove that graduate school is ultimately worthwhile. In order to share a little bit of the international student experience, I found some interview victims.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway! Here&#8217;s what they had to say (split into two parts):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interviewing International Math PhD Students Part 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TygnzPPT2KM?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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interviewing International Math PhD Students Part 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ncPTH6fRxo?start=81&#038;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<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En route to my first year of graduate school, I packed up the three good pillows I have, moved a couple hundred miles, and planted myself in an apartment I had only seen in a grainy Face Time video. 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