Living proof: stories of resilience along the mathematical journey

Part I Mathematics Just Suddenly Feels Hard!

In the Deep End in Algebra/ Deanna Haunsperger

The Road Less Traveled? / Lloyd Douglas

Help Will Always Be Given at Hogwarts to Those Who Ask for It / Allison Henrich

I Don’t Know What I’m Saying—Using Language as a Model for Embracing Mathematical Struggle /  Steven Klee

  A Complex Conundrum / Matthew Pons

An Accidental Mathematician / Jennifer Quinn

Nowhere to Go But Up / Lola Thompson

Hitting the Wall /  Laura Taalman

To Algebra or Not to Algebra / Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin

The Unnecessary Struggle of Self-Mandated Isolation / Alicia Prieto-Langarica

The Struggle of Qualifying Exams / Alejandra Alvarado

Part II. Who Are These People? Do I Even Belong?

I Am a Black Mathematician / John Urschel

Cold, Austere, or Queer / Autumn Kent

A View of Mathematics from Behind the Veil / Robin Wilson

When You Are Told You Can’t: Do Just the Opposite / Angie Hodge

Look for the Helpers / Jennifer Bowen

Good, But Not on the Team / Tim Chartier

Othering and Such Climatic Joy Killers / Arlie Petters

Black, Female ... Bigger /  Candice Price

Moving Beyond Affirmative Action for Men / Alice Silverberg

Struggling with the Messaging of Mathematics / Rachel Weir

The Harassment Is Real / Pamela Harris

Sustaining Through Mathematics / Donald Cole

Part III. Can I Really Do This? How Do I Muster Through?

Good Things Come to Those Who Shower / Robert Allen

Winning by Impression / Robin Blankenship

A Walk in the Park Isn’t Always a Walk in the Park / David Neel

Just Don’t Bomb the GRE / Amanda Ruiz

Sometimes When Your Hopes Have All Been Shattered / Nick Scoville

The Compassion Is Life-Changing / Hortensia Soto

A Close Call: How a Near Failure Propelled Me to Succeed / Terence Tao

Oh My Darlin’ Clementine / David Taylor

A Dream Almost Deferred / Emille Davie Lawrence

Part IV. What Do I Do Now? What Happens Next?

Mathematics, Beauty, and Creativity: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mathematics / Victor Piercey

Five Dollars / Colin Adams

Am I “Good Enough”? / Christine von Renesse

My Journey from Slippery Rock to Duluth / Joe Gallian

Failure By the Numbers / Dominic Klyve

How I Learned to Research Like the Incredible Hulk(or I’m Always Angry) / Robert Vallin

Anxiety Attacked Me, But I Survived / Ken Millett

  It’s Like a Jungle Sometimes, It Makes Me Wonder How I Keep From Going Under / Christina Eubanks-Turner

Should I Quit Mathematics? / Francis Su.