in which a young PhD writes about things he doesn't understand.
Over the past year or so, I’ve been transitioning my research to a more applied area, Algebraic Coding Theory; as a youngish PhD staring down the barrel of another job search, this was partially strategic. Another part of it was that this area just seems interesting; in school I had a few graduate classes in […]
In my 9AM calculus class, students don’t have desks, but have tables where they sit in sets of four. I like this setup because it makes it easy to assign group work and the students already have a pre-made small group for them to work with. One of the pods has a bunch of guys […]