Teaching during a pandemic I.
Author’s note: This blog post is an effort to record, perhaps just for myself, some of my experiences teaching during the spring of 2020, as higher education rapidly transitioned to remote learning in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. I have numbered this "I." as I may write more of my thoughts about approaches to teaching for the fall in the coming months. The opinions expressed herein are entirely my own, and do not represent the views or policies of Rutgers University or its Department of Mathematics. The spring semester of 2020 was always going to be a bit rough for me, though nothing could have prepared me for the difficulty the semester would actually present. It would begin with a difficult job search, probably include some stressful travel, and somewhere in there I would have to find time to restart to my research program. It would also be the last semester of my three-year postdoctoral position at Rutgers University, a place that I have come to deeply value and...
