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What do we say when we are in a Summer School and we are living hard the impostor syndrome life?
We say: I'm gonna take these much-smarter-than-me people and asked them a fuckton of questions. And I won't stop asking until I have absorbed all their knowledge and they've forgotten their own name.
A list of math books
…to read in lieu of an actual math class. So far I have
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- I am Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
- Chaos by James Gleick
- Category Theory by Steve Awodey
I love solving mathematical problems. They calm me and cheer me up. They are like meditation to me.
I’m missing them a lot this week. I'm currently writting a paper and is quite urgent, so I don't have time for them. It isn't that I hate writting, I actually quite enjoy it. But it's been a terrible week and I miss my maths.
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Yesterday was hard.
I'm in some courses all this week, and I don't understand anything that 3 of the 4 speakers say. And I've just met the new PhD student of the department, and he's really smart and he's understanding most of the things. And on top of that my advisor is asking me to finish a big amount of writing. I feel really stupid and discouraged.
So, list of positive things to take into account this week:
- All of the courses are about PDEs and not Dynamical systems (which is my research topic). It's normal to not understand most of them.
- It is a great opportunity to see how people of other topics work, and what are they interests. You don't need to understand everything perfectly. Let go and enjoy.
- I learned a lot from yesterday's poster session, and from other students.
- Next year I would have a very smart PhD partner from who I could learn a lot.
- I am a slow-learner when understanding new topics, and that is okay. I could have other qualities that make me a good mathematician.
⭐ a script for starting a presentation ⭐
“First, I’d like to thank [university / conference / host] for having me, and thank you all for attending my talk. Today I’m presenting work I performed on [general topic] with my collaborators at [university/universities]. To begin, let’s talk about [slide 1 topic].”
Do you know that as a PhD student at my university they let you check out books for 4 months?
Here I am, I become the hoarder of books that I was always meant to be
I’m a “late” PhD student and it’s the best decision I’ve ever taken.
Yes, everyone is younger than me. But this is my place, my time and my moment. Everyone has their speed and this is mine.
you’re not falling behind. you are still young and have a whole life ahead of you. you have enough time to explore things u love and experience your life and make your goals come true and find reasons to live. take things one day at a time and don’t let the fear of falling behind stop you because life isn’t a race.
Totally lost with how life is. Haven't updated my tumblr for some time. So, what I have done lately:
Ethical research application for groupwork, prepping for semi-qualitative interview, doing my term paper (aka my supervisor asked me to do it and mayhaps, publish it), and attending seminars.
It was such a warm afternoon, sun beating on my skin. So far, progress of my paper (noty thesis, one I have to publish first) were its introduction, and relearning how to systematic literature review along with data extraction.
Good quote of the day by one of my lecturers is "Everything is possible, if you are willing to accept change and reiterate along your way".
I am actually panicking inside because my supervisor require me to publish a paper. And my impostor syndrome side decided to tell me I am a professional full-time fraud.
Three days after graduating from my Master in management. It has been truly transformative. Every success and achievement is a reflection of the endless support and prayers from my dearest ones.
A little bit of reading.
Third day of orientation, it was an alright session. I talked with few fellow PhD intake too from different programme. A little nervous about my journey (totally normal on being scared, seriously. It is just my mind deciding to panic and be anxious).
Life's update
Back again to being a student, specifically a Phd student.