If it's a lecturer position, then a letter from someone who has direct experience with your undergraduate teaching would be very valuable. That is the one thing that is essential.
I don't really have enough research experience to apply for a research position, so pretty much everything I'm applying to is lecturer. I asked for this letter of recommendation, and also one from my supervisor, who hasn't sat in on my class but has worked with me for three years. Pretty much all the research I've done lately has been advising an undergrad on a research project (which isn't going too well), and a vague sort of "hey, this might work -- we ought to look into it" with one of my colleagues that most got put on hold when his daughter was born.
I leave for Maui in 10 days. I'm gonna need to make a list.
How do you do research in math? Are you trying to prove unprovable theorems or something?
I'm going to guess that West Point will be more disability friendly also.
I am eating yogurt for dinner while cooking many vegetables -- roasting butternut squash and beets in the oven, roasting peppers on top. They will become meals another time!
How do you do research in math? Are you trying to prove unprovable theorems or something?
Try to find new theorems. Usually, it's taking something that someone else has done and saying, "OK, what if you change this little thing about it? What happens then?"
How do you do research in math? Are you trying to prove unprovable theorems or something?
They're often finding new implications of old theorems. Or ways in which an old framework can be applied to a new set of questions.
It takes quite a while for something new in math to get scuffed up and adulterated enough to drift down and affect the messy quantitative work of empiricists like me, but everything new can be traced back to some really smart mathematician sitting in an office and thinking really hard for a really long time.
Well, I am punking out on the free outdoor movie down the block. I love the idea, but just walking around in shorts this evening left me hot and sweaty, and I'd have to carry a beach chair and any drinks/snacks I wanted about a half mile in this heat while wearing mosquito-proof long pants.
Now You See Me
just isn't appealing enough to get me out of the air conditioning again.
I figure wandering around the downtown farmers' market to say hi to people and buy produce, plus eating out at the pizzeria one block over on Trivia Night takes care of my socializing for the evening. And I spent hours last night enjoying the district fair.
I'm over here chuckling at the idea of billboard equality.
I told Grace's nurse this morning that I was coming home early because I really just wanted to sit on the couch and wander the internet.
What's awesome (many things are awesome) about the new nurse is that she does Grace's homework with her. She's super patient and she doesn't let Grace Tom Sawyer her work. The other nurse used to give Grace a bath but we were in charge of homework. This deal is better.
