Series: Journey to a PhD

At just a year into my program, I've managed to hit my first bump in the road: I failed my qualifying exam. Now what?

As I continue on my PhD journey, I've realized that sometimes you have to make some changes to ensure you get where you want to go.

At times, I feel like events in my life are so coincidental that I can only chock it up to a simulation.

At this point, it's probably no surprise that I'm studying Lisp and interpreter design for my qualifying exam. Let's study together!

As a fate would have it, y'all are getting yet another article based on topics I'm studying for the qualifying exam. This time, I'm talking minimum spanning tree algorithms.

With my first year of teaching in the books, I thought it would be fun to take a look back on what I liked and what I didn't like.