I should’ve participated in this since I’m a math professor and I’ve worked with Japanese students before. Sadly, I’ve been going through teacher burnout. But I’d certainly be interested in participating if this gets revived!
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Thanks for sharing. Please take some time for yourself first 
If you like, have a look into our “home thread” to connect to some mind liked durtles. Just recently some interesting videos / youtube channels have been shared over there.
As for this thread: it will stay open for self-paced readings and asking questions any time within “10 years after the last reply”
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It’s easy to feel guilty when you miss out on something that would be for you, but please don’t give too much thought to it. I’ve experienced it a bit myself as a student and it really overwhelms you. Wishing you the best on your recovery.
As a math major I’m interested what type of field you’ve been teaching/researching.
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Thanks, both of you!
I’m a community college prof, so I tend to focus more on teaching than research (lately, stuff like Universal Design for Learning and the neuroscience behind learning). In fact, for my Master’s project, I chose nonstandard analysis because I thought it would make beginning calculus easier to teach. Then I realized I’d have to explain to these students what ultrafilters and hyperreal numbers are and I was like, “OK, maybe I should just stick to what Newton said!” 
Please feel free to hit me up if I can ever be of any help, by the way. Due to some personal stuff that arose along the way, getting that degree was quite a challenge for me. It’d be my pleasure to make any student’s path easier than mine was!
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I actually went back and finished my bachelor degree this year. Thinking of doing a masters after gaining some work experience.
I’ve done some non-standard analysis in a logic course. It’s cool, but it does have quite a bit of work to build towards it. After all that work you do get a super powerful apparatus, but yeah it’s called non-standard for a reason .
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Presumably it’s the Java part that made them cry.
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Sounds unfair. I’d go with “Template error messages when using C++ data structures”.
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