Timeline for I have stack-exchanged through my undergrad math program. Am I likely to succeed in mathematics PhD programs?
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| Nov 8, 2019 at 16:36 | comment | added | Dan Romik | Great answer! It says a lot of the things I was trying to say in my answer, but in a different (in some ways better) way. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 15:30 | comment | added | penelope | I would actually say that posting on SE does develop collaboration skills up to a point... now, whether we chose to believe the OP that they didn't have any better opportunities or not is a different question, but I firmly believe that communicating your problem, giving clarifications etc in a good SE format does require (and develop) at least some collaboration skills. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 15:18 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | For one thing, OP probably isn’t the only student googling through their homework, so there may be few opportunities to work on hard problems with other students since they’ve also looked up the answer. I think the rise of googling for answers has coincided with a huge decrease of students working together. It’s hard for one student to buck that cultural shift. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 15:16 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | @penelope: Whether or not OP had good opportunities to collaborate, OP hasn’t learned collaboration skills and would be wise to try to develop them. But you’re right that sometimes this isn’t a student’s fault if they don’t have peers. In OP’s case there’s a graduate program, so the faculty is at least medium-sized. I can’t think of a school fitting OPs description that has a genuinely small department. But at any rate you may be right that the lack of collaboration isn’t OPs fault. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 10:54 | comment | added | penelope | From the question it seems that the OP does not really have many peers to discuss and collaborate with, and the number of faculty members might be quite small too (humanities-based university). I think the rest of this answer is nice, but I wouldn't say that he neglected the collaborative answer by participating in SE | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 16:11 | history | answered | Noah Snyder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |