Roman Gayduk, 2017 PhD, reached out with an interesting update. After finishing his degree, Roman worked as a Quant for five years, but is now transitioning to a career in Psychotherapy. He’s shared some thoughts on the PhD process and careers in his blog, How I see It. I found Roman’s personal perspective and thoughts…
Category: Mental Health
Propose a Workshop on Math and Social Justice
ICERM has opened up a special solicitation for social justice focused workshop proposals in the mathematical sciences. Please share this around! Details.
Graduate Student Mental Health
One of the things that concerns me as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies at Michigan has been the mental health of our graduate students. It seems that students feel under much more pressure than ever, with anxiety levels increasing dramatically over the past decade, and especially in the most recent five years or so. I…
Support and Advice from Rackham
Please consider taking advantage of the following sessions from Rackham. These might be helpful if you are stressing about finding an advisor or about your relationship with your advisor, stressing about how to write cover letters, stressing about the difference between a “CV” and a “Resume” or just plain stressing! Main Campus Events Restorative…
Advantages of work experience before grad school
Doug Shaw, 1995 Math PhD from the University of Michigan, has this to say about how working in industry before starting the Math PhD program at Michigan affected his graduate career. Read more about Doug in our Spotlight on Alumni series. When I graduated from the University of Illinois with an undergrad degree in Computer…
Just do it
Words of Wisdom from Doug Shaw: The University of Michigan is pretty careful about who they admit. You would not have been admitted here if you didn’t belong here, so stop comparing yourself others and get back to studying. When I got my degree, I checked the back: Nowhere did it say how hard or easy…
Success after a Nine Year Break
Sue Sierra is living proof that you can take a significant amount of time away from math and still wind up having a fantastic academic research career. She began the Math PhD program at Michigan directly after graduating college in 1993, and finished in 2008, with a nine year break in the middle to be…