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Category Archives: Changing Graduate Programs
SUBgroups: An Interview
By Vanessa Rivera Quiñones Transitioning to graduate school is a challenging and isolating process for many first-year students. SUBgroups are groups of 3 to 5 first-year students from different mathematics graduate programs that meet through video chats every two … Continue reading
Math SWAGGER
By Alexander Diaz-Lopez, Pamela E. Harris, Vanessa Rivera Quinones, Luis Sordo Vieira, Shelby Wilson, Aris Winger, and Michael Young In our times of need, we have come together, often behind the scenes, through all mediums and platforms, to make space … Continue reading
Bank of REU/Grad Fair Questions
By Lucy Martinez and Eduardo Torres Davila We attended the Joint Math Meetings (JMM) conference in Denver to present our research from our work at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program. At JMM, there was a fair of graduate … Continue reading
Mathematical light shines blindly on us
By William Yslas Vélez Professor Emeritus University of Arizona “When I go to a Mexican restaurant I would gladly pay the musicians to stop playing.” John (not his real name) did not like the noise level. This statement came up … Continue reading
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Itʼs the little things
Usually “Itʼs the little things” refers to the details that really help make something spectacular. However, for me these words have taken a different meaning recently. It reminds me of little things that I have experienced and which have affected … Continue reading
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The First Year: Filter The Noise
Throughout my life I’ve always anticipated transitions with apprehension. I distinctly remember entering ninth grade nervous about the social climate, worried about the idea of taking final exams, and scared overall about the academic challenges ahead. These emotions were not … Continue reading
Making the switch: Transitioning to a different graduate program
As a beginning Ph.D. student in Mathematics at Howard University, I was excited to finally spend my days doing what I loved! Graduate courses seemed to build on much of the abstraction that I had only seen little of as … Continue reading
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