Category: miniseries
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How (not) to get your PhD Part 9: What comes next?
How (not) to get your PhD Part 9 (of 9): What comes next? What opportunities are available once you’ve passed your defense and completed your dissertation? Is there anything about my story that is applicable?
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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 7: Let’s Talk About Your Dissertation: the thing that people just don’t want to do
Writing your dissertation may be the most challenging thing you have to do to get your PhD. This post explores what a dissertation actually is and how to ensure you get the thing done.
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How (not) to get your PhD Part 6: Teach
Here’s something I did right during my time obtaining my PhD in Math Education: teaching. The thing I appreciated most about the UW program was the opportunity to teach several classes in several different modalities. Because I live an hour away from UW I was able to teach on-campus sporadically as both a Temporary Lecturer…
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How (not) to get your PhD Part 5: Classes, Coursework, and You
It wasn’t until I was in my doctoral studies that I realized how much my day-to-day life was going to be changed by it. I’m starting to think I’m not great at looking ahead. My and my family’s routines and rituals that offer comfort and connection were temporarily scrambled.
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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 3: What is a Math Education Doctoral Degree (and what it isn’t)
The information in this post is the biggest “I wish I’d known this…” of this entire blog series. I’m a bit reticent to follow up Part 1 with this post because I don’t want to overly focus on post-graduate job opportunities. Part 9 will also focus on post-graduate opportunities and my goal in Part 1…
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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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Three Strategies to Help Improve Students’ Conception of Math – Part 2: Do Useful Math
In my previous post, I discussed one way to provide tasks that help students reimagine the discipline of mathematics: doing creative math. This post discusses the second of three strategies: doing useful math. To me, the interesting thing about math is that it is at once a plaything with seemingly no utility and an immensely…
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