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dethwing
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 Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:00 pm Post subject: 1 |
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I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but I am currently a PhD student at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, but not for much longer. The math department is withdrawing their support beginning in the fall leaving me out in the cold. The main reason is that I didn't pass the analysis comp either try, but they're also concerned about student complaints in my teaching.
I don't know what I'm going to do now, but would appreciate some good will I guess. |
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Courk
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:25 pm Post subject: 2 |
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I'm sorry, dethy.
*hugs* |
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Samadhi
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject: 3 |
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Those who can't teach, do?
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between. |
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MatthewV
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: 4 |
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| UAF might take you. The best of luck to you-- I think this is a shitty time to be leaving school, especially if you didn't want to. |
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LordKinbote
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject: 5 |
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Aww, that's too bad.
I didn't know you were in Lincoln. I'm in Omaha. |
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Trojan Horse
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:39 am Post subject: 6 |
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| dethwing wrote: |
I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but I am currently a PhD student at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, but not for much longer. The math department is withdrawing their support beginning in the fall leaving me out in the cold. The main reason is that I didn't pass the analysis comp either try, but they're also concerned about student complaints in my teaching.
I don't know what I'm going to do now, but would appreciate some good will I guess. |
Did someone look you in the eye and tell you this? Or did you just get a letter with the information?
If it's the latter, then don't give up yet. Talk to your advisor. Talk to the appropriate department chair. Discuss your situation. Ask them to bend the rules a bit. Ask for an extra attempt on the analysis exam. It can't hurt to try.
The math department at USC bent the rules for me, slightly. If they hadn't, I wouldn't have gotten my Ph.D. (No complaints from students, in my case. I had passed two sets of quals- algebra and analysis- but I had failed on a third set.) Give it a shot. |
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Lepton*
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| Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:27 am Post subject: 7 |
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I also saw some flexibility among people (but not regulations, the internet portal, or the bloody graduate office) when I was at grad school. Definitely chat with your supervisor; worst case, he might at least be able to get you a teaching gig to pay the bills.
In the mean while, maybe you could view this as a unique opportunity to be one of those grad school drop-outs who goes on to create a fortune modeling the stock market or whatnot. Or you could come teach high school in Mongolia: that's what I did when I left grad school. |
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