Emily Price
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What she does:
- As a graduate student, Emily is being "eagerly" trained to "become a steward of the craft". This involves taking exams, teaching calculus and eating top ramen.
Math on the job:
- Emily says she rarely thinks about rings, modules, matrices, graphs, orlow density parity check codes. Or any combination thereof. Rarely, she says.
Emily's background:
- Her background consists of taking every mathematics course recommended to her at the UW (except probability), as well as reading of some delicious books with yellow covers.
- Some of the major influences were UW professors, who encouraged her along the way.
Advice for students:
- If you are thinking about going to graduate school, Emily has LOTS of advice for you.
- Explore schools outside the Pacific NW. Not only are you more likely to get in, there are great programs out there you've never heard of.
- Email graduate students in programs you are looking at. They will be able to tell you the the school is really like.
- Unless you are reasonably certain you are going to get into Berkeley, don't worry about taking 400 and 500 level math classes, particularly if you are not interested in the subject matter. Most other undergraduate schools don't offer those courses, so not all schools are going to expect you to have that knowledge. She does recommend Math 402, since the subject matter is beautiful and good for your soul.
- Go to conferences. This is a great way to learn about schools you might not have heard of, and get a sense of where research is being done. You can get funding. Not nearly enough students apply for it.
- Learn to program. Seriously, if you ever want one of those rumored "industry jobs", you will need to know C++.