Sorry for sorta distracting like this, but yeah basically it's a bit tricky for me to gauge exactly since generic America is rather different from Chicago
So what's kinda the standard undergrad background before one goes to a Master's?
I've thus far taken first year (Spivak) Calc, analysis (including measure, functional), difftop, complex, by the end of this year I'll have groups/rings/Galois, grad functional/complex, some AT/commutative, and next year hopefully some rep/ANT/AG
I heard their was a masters course here on automorphic forms where they just had a whole course worth of theorems in representation theory of finite groups as exercises for the first two weeks, with almost no hints
It was like I was giving a 90 minute talk on the proof of some theorem and they had it as an exercise which was worth 2/30 points
I didn't take the course, so that's second hand information which may be exaggarated
but I saw some exercise sheet and it wasn't that far off
but that's the exception
I think the lecturer was a PhD student who hadn't taught before
Yeah same. Here it's like, there's some kinda tuition but your fellowship/whatever the avenue is you get funding that may or may include teaching responsibilities usually pays for that plus the stipend
Ted's school seemed to not give much money but treat people well
I think Chicago is alright in that regard? I'm not sure though
I don't know about funding, but because you don't pay much for education, I think most masters students don't have funding. All PhD students are regular employees of the university, though
You can do like TA even as an undergrad, then you're just employed for one semester and you don't get much money
