# My Graduate Career in Math

DevFeed: [My Graduate Career in Math](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/my-graduate-career-in-math-40490.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.jeremykun.com/2025/05/12/my-graduate-career-in-math/>)

Published: 2025-05-12T18:35:57Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Jeremy Kun](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/jeremy-kun.md>)

Topics: [Mathematics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mathematics.md>), [Computer science](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-science.md>), [graph theory](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graph-theory.md>)

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## AI overview

An autobiographical essay about the author's transition from computer science to mathematics at Cal Poly, including university coursework, study abroad in Budapest, and reflections on the intellectual environment and an early group theory project.

## Source excerpt

Editor's note: This essay was originally published on Medium on 2016-03-05. I have made minor edits in this republishing and added a few small retrospective notes. 2010-2011 (Year 0) I had just switched my major at Cal Poly State University from computer science to math. I wanted to double major but California was in a budget crisis and a few weeks before I tried submitting my double-major request the Provost for the CSU system put a blanket ban on double majors.