Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Abel Prize

Re:Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Ab... by soVeryTired on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:36PM (#19433220)

Mine was CS with a stats twist, yes. Fortunately the stats component put me in good stead for industry work.

I'd say TCS and pure math are about equivalent in terms of the career opportunties they offer.

Something I forgot to mention: under no circumstances should you self-fund a PhD. Make sure you have a stipend to keep food on the table. Self-funding magnifies the risks I've described tenfold.

This is a realistic perspective of what grad school is like in the average-to-bad case. I could identify with parts of it:

http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/what-does-any-of-this-...

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Re:Karen Uhlenbeck, Uniter of Geometry and Analysis, Wins Ab... by kevinventullo on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:20PM (#19436039)

> under no circumstances should you self-fund a PhD

Second this. I was told before starting "If you have to pay to do a PhD you're doing it wrong." This may not apply to fields like Literature, but it most certainly applies to Math and CS.

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