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You will need five professors, and one of them to serve as your | You will need five professors, and one of them to serve as your | ||
committee chair. Try to choose professors who already have a good | committee chair. Try to choose professors who already have a good | ||
- | impression of you. Also, talk with your advisor to find out | + | impression of you. Also, talk with your adviser to find out |
- | if he/she plan on being on your committee. (Your advisor | + | if he/she plan on being on your committee. (Your adviser |
can't be chair.) Some professors have | can't be chair.) Some professors have | ||
strong opinions about being on their students' committees | strong opinions about being on their students' committees | ||
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- | For Mathematics majors, one member of your committee must be external to the Department. For Applied Mathematics majors, one member of your committee must be external to the Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics (GGAM). | + | For Mathematics majors, one member of your committee must be external to the Department, and the Chair must be a member of the Department. |
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+ | For Applied Mathematics majors, one member of your committee must be external to GGAM, and the Chair must be a GGAM member. | ||
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of theorems cold (or as cold as reasonable). Have a basic idea of how to sketch proofs of major theorems. It helped me to read proofs aloud. | of theorems cold (or as cold as reasonable). Have a basic idea of how to sketch proofs of major theorems. It helped me to read proofs aloud. | ||
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- | <li>Don't study too hard; you'll forget everything as soon as you walk in, anyway. | + | <li>Don't study too hard; you'll forget everything as soon as you walk in, anyway. (To put it a different way, the exam doesn't test what you study, it tests what you know. Don't count on studying to do anything other than remind you of what you already know.) |
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