Love to be told that mathematicians should be apolitical in their jobs when, you know...*stares at the NSA*
A different student couldn't believe that I was alive for the beginning of Pokémon, since it's so old. It didn't make it to the US until 1998! That can't have been *that* long ago!
I wish so many blessings on the immigration photo taker because my green card picture was so great. I hope they're doing good. Not the DMV photo taker person though, and the campus ID picture people too.
Principal Components Analysis ❤️❤️❤️
I got invited to give a keynote at a conference recently and was then told how much it would cost me to register for that conference Needless to say they didn't plan on helping with travel or the hotel either But at least they didn't invite me to apply haha
In a different world (lol) faculty would be compensated by employers for curating materials and there'd be more prominent funding avenues for creating them. I'm also at a teaching focused institution so I don't feel the tension of splitting my time between that and other things for tenure/promotion
I guess I've never really thought that student costs from these big publishers makes its way back to faculty in a meaningful way. Especially with their emphasis on the big course online suites, homework systems, etc.
I don't think there will be any large or systemic changes based on these kinds of interactions, but I'm hoping they'll cross me off the list of people to bother at the very least? Maybe eventually they'll cross my dept off the list too? I can dream
Yes exactly this was the vibe with them!