It's just hit me. I have been watching your channel from the very beginning. It felt like I've been watching you since "forever" ago. You and your channel have been some of my main inspiration for going into mathematics as an undergraduate. I'm currently a second year and just finished out my semester. I just want to thank you because you have greatly helped me find and pursue one of my great purposes in life. Thank you! P.s. New channel name should be "Struggling Postdoc"
Thank you for following my journey, I am glad I could help in any way. It is a great feeling when we find our calling in life. I wish you great success in mathematics, and I hope we meet at a conference someday! :)
I'm a struggling Master's student and I feel so similar even if it's not remotely close to a PhD. You got this man! Hoping for the best for both of us.
I'm rooting for you! I just learned that the Physics PhD programs in my state got rid of the GRE exams, which was something I always struggled with, so now I'm feeling like I can plan to go to grad school in 2026.
MIT OCW is an awesome resource I’ve used to self study undergraduate courses before I took them! I’ve been watching you for a long time now and hope you succeed, glad to see the progression of you starting to believe in yourself.
@@noJobProgrammer Whilst I switched from engineering to maths and honestly regret it for this reason, you can't discourage someone from doing what they aspire to do. All the best @AspiringMathPhd and I hope you have researched what you're getting yourself into and feel it's the best decision!
1.5 years to write a PhD thesis seems like a really short amount of time to me. Here in Australia, we do 3 years of undergrad and 2 years of Masters. Then we do 3.5 years of PhD (no classes) - although I wish the stipend was for 4 years.
That Harvard notebook is sick! I really recommend the intro to functional analysis course on MIT ocw. It has all the lectures recorded, the notes and the assignments, although it may be elementary for you -- I have really enjoyed it.
I have been watching since almost the beginning April 23. Make me think back to my days in school ( bachelor's in mechanical engineering) for the last 6 months I have been going through proof based calculus and intro to analysis. It's so satisfying when I proof comes together. I have become intimately familiar with the triangle inequality lol. Wish you the best and look to struggling postdoc videos
I'm a first year struggling physics phd student; also on my way to becoming the first doctor in the family! My institution also provides five years of assistance in the form of employment as a graduate teaching assistant. Graduating in five years is certainly my goal, and I have a wife, so I really want to keep the grad school time to a minimum. It's always nice to see videos like this that make me realize this struggle is not unique to me; not talking about running out of funding yet of course, but just in general.
I think at this point you've inspired me to video my own progress and updates for my PhD program that I'm starting this upcoming spring. Not necessarily posting them as well, but just videos so I can look back and see what I've done and how far I've come since I began coming from undergrad. I'm a mechatronics engineer and am in an Interdisciplinary Engineering program with a focus on autonomous robots and other autonomous systems, with an even further focus on soft robotics hopefully for medical, surgical, and prosthetic robots. I've got a 3-4 year timeline depending on my work, but soft robotics isn't exactly easy since its a recently emerging field and its very broad in possible applications and there is much work to be done overall. Hopefully I will get into it and have my advisors as a good support system, but I have worked in their labs before and they are very rigorous with their work and applications so they have high hopes for my work and the amount of papers and other projects they wish for me to get done under their supervision. My first year will be "grad research" which basically is taking my core classes with a research class so I can have some dedicated time and credits towards my research while developing a proposal or beginning on my disertation early before I even take my candidacy exam at the end of my first year. I wish you the best of luck and I believe in your intelligence and ability to get your work done. I've been watching for quite a while now and I know you have the talent for it and can get through anything that's thrown at you before then. Thank you for being an inspiration to me and many others who are going through this same challenging and mysterious time in our academic careers. sincerely, some random yt engineering student :)
You will really appreciate those videos when you are older and have something to look back on. This was the biggest inspiration for my channel. Keeping to it will be difficult, but grad school will help you stay disciplined so there should be no trouble. Good luck and stay in touch!
Congratulations! I've been watching this channel for a while. I didn't do the phD program because I didn't think I was up for it. Still ended up teaching. By the way Trig is some of my favorite so I hope you have a better experience this time around. I always loved seeing all the research and topic in analysis that I didn't cover.
My advisor let me know that I can have a proposal for my dissertation in the summer, and then spend a year or two before defending my dissertation. You got this!
For undergrad, at least, Columbia will cover your entire need if you get accepted to the school, so for me it ended up costing me the same as a few years of in state tuition at one of our state schools. I also made friends with a lot of people in the same boat while I was there. That said, I also met a ton of stereotypically wealthy people and wholeheartedly agree the bookstore is overpriced. Undergrad made me an expert in finding textbook pdfs.
This is all very interesting I don’t understand much of it but my question is a person who’s as smart as you in math do for a living? Do you have any plans for a specific job? I’m just wondering I feel like all this kinda math is good for like nuclear stuff? I guess the world is your oyster ?
Fingers crossed for your PhD! I just got into a graduate programme for functional analysis research :) been watching you since my first year of undergrad. Rooting for you
Hey let me know if you want some advice. Unfortunately if you’re talking about completing your dissertation, “traditional classes” needs to be a thing of the past. After passing to candidacy, you should be taking almost all research credits and maybe a seminar, but working on research almost 100% of the time. You talk a lot about classes which normally is a bad sign but I think you understand what research constitutes.
You started 2023? You’re planning on graduating in 3.5 years? Isn’t that a pretty crazy timeline a PhD? In my program you’re expected to have like 3-5 papers by the time you graduate. 6 y’s on average.
And in France system PhD program are 3 years, no disciplines and focus on research. Disciplines in the PhD should be optional and not mandatory in agreement with the advisor. Focus should only be on research. Qualifying exams should be just about your research, not disciplines.
The courses you take in your first year sound like under grad level classes. Didn't you study these subjects as an undergrad? In the UK the norm is 3 years bachelors, 1 year masters, then 3-4 years PhD.
@@learnedscholar thank you for your reply but it is not a good answer. there are objectively hard exams for someone who is meant to be there or not just like the PhD experience as a whole which is difficult whether you are good or not
We were encouraged to publish along the way. This was a great idea. I had 2 papers; a women had 4 (this is in engineering). Publishing early does several things: 1. No need to write a bunch of chapters at once as your published papers are written. 2. Gets your name out there for postdoc/faculty positions. 3. Your PhD defense should be a "slam dunk" as your published papers with faculty authors have been vetted and published by the community. 4. Keeps you motivated along the way. Having your eyes just on the dissertation is a long way off. Having little milestones along the way in terms of these published papers is nice.
Something is not right with the Math Sorcerer channel. I have asked many times on his channel to talk about his PhD research topic because I assume he has his PhD. He has never responded and to my knowledge has never claimed to have a PhD. You would think considering how obsessed he is with academic level math that he has at least one PhD. in mathematics.
@JJGhostHunters 🤔 Has he a posted CV? Your issue is more serious than my angst against his endorsement of two terrible books. Has he an email address to contact him?
I guess non-stem majors might have to take it? Like a business major who donated a building or athletes. I found between transferring between a less supposedly prestigious school to a more prestigious one that university admissions have a lot to do with familial social class, I didnt notice much change in ability/aptitude/motivation between schools of the students but I did notice that the more prestigious university had students coming from quite privileged families.
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"Strugling postdoc"
Heck yeah we are in a new era
New Beginnings
And I am still struggling to find interest after changing from physics major to maths major😢
It's just hit me. I have been watching your channel from the very beginning. It felt like I've been watching you since "forever" ago. You and your channel have been some of my main inspiration for going into mathematics as an undergraduate. I'm currently a second year and just finished out my semester. I just want to thank you because you have greatly helped me find and pursue one of my great purposes in life. Thank you!
P.s. New channel name should be "Struggling Postdoc"
Thank you for following my journey, I am glad I could help in any way. It is a great feeling when we find our calling in life. I wish you great success in mathematics, and I hope we meet at a conference someday! :)
I'm a struggling Master's student and I feel so similar even if it's not remotely close to a PhD. You got this man! Hoping for the best for both of us.
I'm rooting for you! I just learned that the Physics PhD programs in my state got rid of the GRE exams, which was something I always struggled with, so now I'm feeling like I can plan to go to grad school in 2026.
Still take it, especially if your school isn’t well-known. It gives a more “objective” measure if you don’t go somewhere like U of M.
@@trugramm1605 my school is actually well known thankfully, i just suck at standardized tests
More universities are slowly removing GRE requirements
The point about wanting to start research sooner after passing exams pulled on my heart strings
MIT OCW is an awesome resource I’ve used to self study undergraduate courses before I took them!
I’ve been watching you for a long time now and hope you succeed, glad to see the progression of you starting to believe in yourself.
You inspired me to switch my major from engineering to mathematics and my goal is to do a PhD like you. Rooting for you out here!
Have fun
Why? Math is very abstract. I would stick to engineering
@@noJobProgrammer Whilst I switched from engineering to maths and honestly regret it for this reason, you can't discourage someone from doing what they aspire to do. All the best @AspiringMathPhd and I hope you have researched what you're getting yourself into and feel it's the best decision!
@@noJobProgrammer
And? What if it's so abstract?
@@noJobProgrammer That's what makes it the foundations of nature
1.5 years to write a PhD thesis seems like a really short amount of time to me. Here in Australia, we do 3 years of undergrad and 2 years of Masters. Then we do 3.5 years of PhD (no classes) - although I wish the stipend was for 4 years.
I wish I had started research sooner because this is a legitimate concern of mine. But my advisor and I think we can get it done... hopefully
That Harvard notebook is sick! I really recommend the intro to functional analysis course on MIT ocw. It has all the lectures recorded, the notes and the assignments, although it may be elementary for you -- I have really enjoyed it.
I love me some functional analysis, probably will check it out
I have been watching since almost the beginning April 23. Make me think back to my days in school ( bachelor's in mechanical engineering) for the last 6 months I have been going through proof based calculus and intro to analysis. It's so satisfying when I proof comes together. I have become intimately familiar with the triangle inequality lol. Wish you the best and look to struggling postdoc videos
I am glad that you mentioned the MIT open courseware. By means of that, you can watch Gilbert Strang's linear algebra lessons.
MIT OCW 18.085 and 18.086 are courses I watched (but still havent finished them all)
strang's lectures suck
I'm a first year struggling physics phd student; also on my way to becoming the first doctor in the family! My institution also provides five years of assistance in the form of employment as a graduate teaching assistant. Graduating in five years is certainly my goal, and I have a wife, so I really want to keep the grad school time to a minimum. It's always nice to see videos like this that make me realize this struggle is not unique to me; not talking about running out of funding yet of course, but just in general.
I think at this point you've inspired me to video my own progress and updates for my PhD program that I'm starting this upcoming spring. Not necessarily posting them as well, but just videos so I can look back and see what I've done and how far I've come since I began coming from undergrad. I'm a mechatronics engineer and am in an Interdisciplinary Engineering program with a focus on autonomous robots and other autonomous systems, with an even further focus on soft robotics hopefully for medical, surgical, and prosthetic robots. I've got a 3-4 year timeline depending on my work, but soft robotics isn't exactly easy since its a recently emerging field and its very broad in possible applications and there is much work to be done overall. Hopefully I will get into it and have my advisors as a good support system, but I have worked in their labs before and they are very rigorous with their work and applications so they have high hopes for my work and the amount of papers and other projects they wish for me to get done under their supervision. My first year will be "grad research" which basically is taking my core classes with a research class so I can have some dedicated time and credits towards my research while developing a proposal or beginning on my disertation early before I even take my candidacy exam at the end of my first year.
I wish you the best of luck and I believe in your intelligence and ability to get your work done. I've been watching for quite a while now and I know you have the talent for it and can get through anything that's thrown at you before then. Thank you for being an inspiration to me and many others who are going through this same challenging and mysterious time in our academic careers.
sincerely,
some random yt engineering student :)
You will really appreciate those videos when you are older and have something to look back on. This was the biggest inspiration for my channel. Keeping to it will be difficult, but grad school will help you stay disciplined so there should be no trouble. Good luck and stay in touch!
Congratulations! I've been watching this channel for a while. I didn't do the phD program because I didn't think I was up for it. Still ended up teaching. By the way Trig is some of my favorite so I hope you have a better experience this time around. I always loved seeing all the research and topic in analysis that I didn't cover.
Me alegra escuchar que estarás aprendiendo españo de nuevo, mucho ánimo con el final de tu doctorado.
thank you being consistent! I am inspired to pursue math on my own for now until I can figure out how to go back.
You inspire me so much! I'm a highschooler who just likes to do math a lot. I often watch your videos for moral support when I'm down
I really like that harvard hat. The cream and crimson really works well together.
Conheci o seu canal hoje e já achei ele incrível, estou torcendo por você!
"Struggling researcher"
For a moment there, I thought you were about to announce that you will go to harvard for a postdoc or sth
I'm rooting for you man ✊🏾
My advisor let me know that I can have a proposal for my dissertation in the summer, and then spend a year or two before defending my dissertation. You got this!
For undergrad, at least, Columbia will cover your entire need if you get accepted to the school, so for me it ended up costing me the same as a few years of in state tuition at one of our state schools. I also made friends with a lot of people in the same boat while I was there. That said, I also met a ton of stereotypically wealthy people and wholeheartedly agree the bookstore is overpriced. Undergrad made me an expert in finding textbook pdfs.
Qué bien! Suerte con tus lecciones de español! Justo estaba usando Duolingo mientras miraba el video. Adiós.
omg... please make videos for high schoolers and your journey in life and math.
and how you got into such a great school, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Interesting, thank you!
@14:50 I have a MIT sweatshirt since I was 16! I pretend about going to those schools too man!
This is all very interesting I don’t understand much of it but my question is a person who’s as smart as you in math do for a living? Do you have any plans for a specific job? I’m just wondering I feel like all this kinda math is good for like nuclear stuff? I guess the world is your oyster ?
Fingers crossed for your PhD! I just got into a graduate programme for functional analysis research :) been watching you since my first year of undergrad. Rooting for you
Hey let me know if you want some advice. Unfortunately if you’re talking about completing your dissertation, “traditional classes” needs to be a thing of the past. After passing to candidacy, you should be taking almost all research credits and maybe a seminar, but working on research almost 100% of the time. You talk a lot about classes which normally is a bad sign but I think you understand what research constitutes.
I think you started the same year as me. I'm feeling it too haha
Good luck!
Damn I haven't seen one of your videos in a year. Hope you're doing well.
You started 2023? You’re planning on graduating in 3.5 years? Isn’t that a pretty crazy timeline a PhD? In my program you’re expected to have like 3-5 papers by the time you graduate. 6 y’s on average.
He started a year and a half before that. So half way through 2021.
He just started posting vids on RUclips in 2023 :)
@ my bad I misheard him say he only has a year and a half to do all his PhD research. When it usually takes like 3 in the US.
I need to hear about the Precalc class you *didn't* enjoy teaching
And in France system PhD program are 3 years, no disciplines and focus on research. Disciplines in the PhD should be optional and not mandatory in agreement with the advisor. Focus should only be on research. Qualifying exams should be just about your research, not disciplines.
Because in France you do a master’s before that includes all of that …
So did you fail your comps after the first year?
The courses you take in your first year sound like under grad level classes. Didn't you study these subjects as an undergrad? In the UK the norm is 3 years bachelors, 1 year masters, then 3-4 years PhD.
I think he mentioned why that was the case in an earlier video of his. You’re absolutely right though
you got this bro 💪 what job are you eyeing? industry? research postdoc?
Do you have any advice for taking one of the MIT archived classes as a solo study?
I just failed my topology exam. At least youre good at what youre interested in!
You can overcome, you only fail when you give up
Where are you going to grad school?
Godspeed
I speak Spanish if you want to practice let me know. I like your videos.
Just finished my first semester of PhD in CS
good for you
what is your field of research?
영상보다 더 겸손한 모습이 보인다...
how hard are qualifying exams?
Easy if you’re meant to be there
@@learnedscholar thank you for your reply but it is not a good answer. there are objectively hard exams for someone who is meant to be there or not just like the PhD experience as a whole which is difficult whether you are good or not
I think he showed the qualifying exams on his channel before
I think you should teach some higher level math. Like Proofs and real analysis, just to have some classes on your channel.
Nice merch. Good luck with the candidacy exam in 2025.
he definitely going to cry once the camara is off lol. Don't worry i cried as a grown man over a grade in a class before.
are u heading to a teaching career ?
"Kent State University"
We were encouraged to publish along the way. This was a great idea. I had 2 papers; a women had 4 (this is in engineering). Publishing early does several things:
1. No need to write a bunch of chapters at once as your published papers are written.
2. Gets your name out there for postdoc/faculty positions.
3. Your PhD defense should be a "slam dunk" as your published papers with faculty authors have been vetted and published by the community.
4. Keeps you motivated along the way. Having your eyes just on the dissertation is a long way off. Having little milestones along the way in terms of these published papers is nice.
thats so cool
i'm not a grad student
You won’t try to get into academia?
Spring 2026? you still have a lot of time
It's time to start collaborating with the Math Sorcerer on RUclips.
He’s garbage
@@bennoarchimboldi6245 Why say that?
Something is not right with the Math Sorcerer channel. I have asked many times on his channel to talk about his PhD research topic because I assume he has his PhD. He has never responded and to my knowledge has never claimed to have a PhD. You would think considering how obsessed he is with academic level math that he has at least one PhD. in mathematics.
@@bjpeterdelacruz7091 he’s garbage though
@JJGhostHunters 🤔 Has he a posted CV?
Your issue is more serious than my angst against his endorsement of two terrible books.
Has he an email address to contact him?
First
Congrats ! 🥇
second
Congrats ! 🥈
I WAS HERE
You got accepted to both howwwwwwwe 😯😯😵💫🫨🫨🫨
he visited them for conferences, if i’m understanding what he said right.
Teaching pre calc at Harvard ?? I couldn’t even get into notre dame with a perfect gps and farther than junior math
I guess non-stem majors might have to take it? Like a business major who donated a building or athletes. I found between transferring between a less supposedly prestigious school to a more prestigious one that university admissions have a lot to do with familial social class, I didnt notice much change in ability/aptitude/motivation between schools of the students but I did notice that the more prestigious university had students coming from quite privileged families.