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We Need to Talk
On the plane to San Diego for the joint meetings, I finally watched The Big Sick. There’s a throwaway line where a character, voice filled with shame and disgust, says “Who goes to a math conference to get laid?” A … Continue reading
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Winter Break Limbo
The third-year dossier is edited and off to the committee; the last talks got talked; grades are posted. Haven’t quite started working in earnest on Spring semester yet, and I’ve set aside my writing until Tuesday. I’ve written before about … Continue reading
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Thoughts for the graduate students tonight
In graduate school, my stipend was $17,000 a year. I picked up an extra class a year on top of the three I taught for my stipend to make a little more. This turned out to not be such a … Continue reading
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