My Trick For Getting Through Grad School Is Learning To Navigate The Quadrants With All Their Nuances

my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances

i feel like i branded too hard on the bagels thing. i love bagels but i want to change my pfp to like, some random anime character or nice artwork.

purely operating on carbs coffee and force of will these days

learned about the “light academic” genre today. which i guess is just if you go to college and don’t kill anybody

Evil math suggestion: do a population size word problem that explicitly states that *each pair of cats* can have 4 kittens *per year*, while never mentioning that each pair of cats stops existing the second they have kittens.

I know how cats work. If a pair of cats has 4 kittens, you should have 6 cats, not 4. And the next year you should have 3 new litters rather than 2. My teacher at the time thought I was nuts for complaining about this, and I just thought about it again and realized it was both evil math and cat math, so it fits here.

Seriously, y’all, if you’re going to set up a problem like that, you can’t just assume I’ll know that the cats immediately die upon giving birth, because that’s not even slightly how cats work, nor would you assume it was if you didn’t know anything about cats. That’s such a weird assumption to make when teaching your students a new concept.

Calculus is significantly easier if you’re SUPER sharp on your trig and your algebra skills. If you know your identities and your theorems and you’re good at factoring and playing with numbers in general— you have a lot less to think hard about and trip up on while you’re working on the actual calculus itself, which can be surprisingly straightforward as long as you’ve trained yourself to see the patterns, stay organized, and think a few moves ahead.