Category: highered
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How (not) to get your PhD Part 8: Committee… Assemble!: Prelims, Quals, your defense and the moving of mountains
In the penultimate post of this mini-series, I discuss your doctoral committee, prelims, quals, IRB, and your defense. What they are and why getting these things to line up make it seem like a miracle anyone gets their PhD.
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How (not) to get your PhD Part 4: Do you like to write? You better.
Part 4 of “How (not) to get your PhD”. You’ll be doing a lot of writing in your doctoral program. It would behoove you to like writing, or at least tolerate it.
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How (not) to get your PhD Part 2: The right program at the right time at the right cost (if there is one)
Part 3: The right program at the right time at the right cost (if there is one) It actually took me two attempts to obtain a PhD. Don’t be like me on your first attempt. Find the right program at the right time. Oh, and maybe look into how much graduate college costs these days.
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Emergent Math Winter Mini-Series: How (not) to get your PhD
(Usually I reserve my longform blogging projects or other math projects on this website for the Summer. However, I’ve been working on this mini-series for months now and finally have enough time to figure out what I want to convey. Also I was waiting to figure out what the next chapter of my story in…
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