by Fernán Cerrón-Palomino This semester I took on the challenge of assisting a professor in a course that was a part of the Writing Intensive Program. As a Spanish instructor, I had taught up to 3000 level classes but this one was a 4000 level course, so I didn’t know what to expect. To be…
by Hyunnam Ryu When I was an undergraduate student in the Statistics department, I had believed that the most critical ability as a good statistician was to develop a statistical model and draw the results. Yes, it’s important, of course! That belief persisted throughout my master’s degree. After completing my master’s degree in South Korea,…
by Andrew Wiggins “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” —Robert McKee As a PhD candidate, I am routinely evolving and improving the narrative telling the story of my research. I have learned that doing science is only half of the process for a scientist. The second involves communicating…
by Simon Xu Writing and mathematics may seem orthogonal to each other, especially to students who are taking their first heavily proof-based course. Even for some more experienced math students, including myself, who might have sensed some degree of similarities between these disciplines, it can be difficult to articulate a precise relationship. In our class…