Category Archives: mentoring

Lean With It/Rock With It

Posted on November 2, 2020 by kthompson

I feel like a bad feminist. And not in the Roxane Gay sense. More like in the literal sense. A female colleague of mine recently was talking about a “Lean In” group she was running on campus, and I asked … Continue reading →

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A Case for Pre-College Outreach

Posted on July 13, 2020 by kthompson

Historically, mathematicians never dealt with any students who were not legal adults. While now there has been an increase of math circles and (summer) math camps and math competitions (epsilon is greater than zero…), mathematicians working with and for those … Continue reading →

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The Hardest Days to Teach

Posted on August 19, 2019 by kthompson

There are only a few days where I was so upset that I did not want to teach. The first instance was in grad school when my adviser told me he was denied tenure. The most recent was two years … Continue reading →

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