Editing Blog/2025-01-15/Spatial-Textual Memory (section)

== Footnotes ==

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<ref name=potp>{{Cite journal
 | last1 = Therriault
 | first1 = D. J.
 | last2 = Raney
 | first2 = G. E.
 | title = The Representation and Comprehension of Place-on-the-Page and Text-Sequence Memory
 | journal = Scientific Studies of Reading
 | volume = 6
 | issue = 2
 | pages = 117–134
 | year = 2002
 | doi = 10.1207/S1532799XSSR0602_01
 | url = https://doi.org/10.1207/S1532799XSSR0602_01
}}
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<ref name=hartshorne>{{Cite book
 | last = Hartshorne
 | first = Robin
 | title = Algebraic Geometry
 | series = Graduate Texts in Mathematics
 | publisher = Springer-Verlag
 | year = 1977
 | location = New York
 | chapter = Varieties
 | page = 4
}}
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<ref name=msc>
This is not unexpected. Many Masters degrees in technical fields are a mechanism to allow for foreigners to enter the US. In my case, my motivation was to switch from Mathematics to Computer Science, a thing that is not easily possible in employment in India (and I didn't have the wherewithal at the time to found a company myself). The H-1B process provides for an easier lottery if you've got an advanced degree (a Masters or higher) so it helps to do one. But more notably, you can get an F-1 visa to come to the US while studying for two years, spend the summer at an internship, and then work at the internship employer on OPT once you graduate with a Masters. That degree also grants you a STEM extension so you have a longer period to work while your H-1B lottery proceeds. The degree at NCSU has two directions: one with a thesis and one without. The one I did was the easier one: without. Overall, coursework was relatively practical and would perhaps have been better described as a Software degree since there weren't that many proof-based classes. I had a very good time there, and had to work hard to maintain my GPA.
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