Narrowing Down a Career Path

Joshua Siktar
5 min readMay 6, 2021
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I’ve just finished my fourth semester in the University of Tennessee’s Mathematics Ph.D. program! That means I’m nearly at the halfway point of the program, and I am getting ever closer to the oral exam. All that being said, this seemed like a good time to reflect on how I’ve developed an answer to the question, “what do I want to do after I graduate?” Moreover, I want to evaluate if I have been spending my time and energy on suitable…

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Joshua Siktar

Math PhD Student University of Tennessee | Academic Sales Engineer | Writer, Educator, Researcher