Jeremy

Comics about mathematics, science, and the student life.

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Desk ("It also doubles as a way to track that I've actually worked.")

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Could (The important thing is to be optimistic!)

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Gaps (Combinatorial remixing can often be your friend here.)

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Nerd Sniping (Warning: Exposure to science may also lead to getting nerd-sniped.)

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Tabs (Unless you're like me, in which case plenty of your tabs become zombies in your browser...)

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Long Exposure (Of course, this is for subjects that you still use! For myself, this subject is linear algebra. I was pretty confused about it when I first learned the subject, but ever-so-slowly, I've become much better at it. What subject is this for you?)

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Belonging (Volunteering isn't easy, but in my experience it's usually worth it.)

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Filler Packaging (Note, this is *not* to say that all books should be essays! Rather, find the appropriate container for your idea.)

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Forgetting Curves (As a sports coach, I'm *very* familiar with that baseline.)

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@plectomorphism Alternating between which two states?

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Performance Trajectories (As a lone wolf by default, this is a reminder to myself.)

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Partitioning Skills (You know things are bad when you're deep in the obsession phase for a story but you start mixing in characters and plot elements from the other book you're reading.)

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Noticeable Gap (Mastery is becoming at peace with an ever-widening gap.)

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Compactify (Unfortunately, we often present mathematics in the opposite order, where we show the nice and tidy formula which only makes sense to someone with a lot of experience and intuition on the subject.)

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Bankruptcy (Who am I kidding: I sometimes get nervous about deleting anything, and so I just let the list languish. Sometimes, I switch to new services to achieve the same effect!)

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Event Horizon (Any other graduate students feeling the same way?)

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Retention (Two reasons: working memory overload and fatigue. It's a fantasy to imagine that my audience will immediately soak up everything I share.)

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Outline (As I'm in the midst of thesis-writing, I definitely understand the power of the left panel!)

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The Distraction Hump (Unfortunately, giving in to a distraction doesn't pause your way through the curve, but resets you back to zero.)

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Edge (My hobby horse is for X = Sports.)