What employment possibilities are there for C&M students? How does a C&M student qualify for employment? What advantages do C&M students get from these jobs?
C&M students can become:
* C&M campus class assistants who help the instructor teach and grade.
* NetMath internet distance education mentors who are class assistants but do their work remotely via the internet rather than in the campus labs.
Hiring is based on performance in previous C&M courses and ability to deal with students. The advantages you get:
* You get paid for what you do.
* Through fielding student questions and/or grading you learn the material really well.
* The personal skills needed for these jobs are valued in the business world. Showing these jobs on your resume gives you an advantage in the job market.
Comments from Students
As much as Luke Skywalker loved his time in math he had always known something was wrong... His math abilities grew and grew, but he always felt that the methods of teaching were a constraint on his ability to really understand the mathematics being taught. When he had grown old enough he finally met Obiwan Kenobee who told him that he was meant to be a math master and that the slight force he had always felt would eventually become one with him and he would understand all. Obiwan explained to him that all of this would begin with the destruction of the old math empire... In the next year Luke created a calculus program on computer and began slowly defeating the dark side of math that had always haunted him. As time went on he transfered all the mathematics the rest of the world could comprehend on to a computer and defeated the empire of long boring lectures and unnecessary computation. The force prevailed and true mathematics finally came through.
Tech Support
Techs support both the lab machines and the software used in this program.
In the event of a problem, send an e-mail to tech@cm.math.uiuc.edu.
