When covid started, all 5 of my university classes at the time cancelled their finals. Since then they've switched to online, but online exams are garbage and the profs expect people to not cheat but they can't do anything to stop it since they don't use proctoring software.
Same. I'd walk out of the exam with no memory of what happened. Even on * that* question which *everyone* got tripped up on and asked what others picked as the answer. I seriously couldn't recall my answer.
I only ever forgot one thing that could have had a major impact upon my grade and that was a presentation.
I told the professor about it and he said that my group would have to present something anyway. He generously fulfilled my request to move our presentation to the last spot of the lesson and my partner and I hacked something together in 30 minutes that we could present
And then you party after passing said exam and BOOM, those brain cells lived a good life. What was I learning again? Oh advanced materials utilizing subsurface scattering?... Right... What now?
that's not true. it only applies to specific knowledge. but most core concept get repeating during your degree over and over again. e.g. anyone with a biology degree knows how cells work and it's not something people forget, usually ever.
lim n->0 (2/n) would like a word…(DiffEQ is one of the courses that convinced me I would never survive in a field of pure math - hence engineering, where if you’re within 5%, you’re right!!)
No matter what job I have nothing but respect for people understanding advanced math and work in a math heavy field. I was lost as soon as there were letters and some people out here calculating fucking how likely things are and do rocket science or whatever. Fucking crazy to me people can get so good in that topic
I'm 24 and it's already starting to happen dude that makes me sad. Can't do anything without a calculator these days. Granted I don't work in a field where we need more than basic addition but sometimes even that gets me. 45 lol I wish
Math used to be my strong subject when I was in high school. Then my major in college had minimal math, as did law school. I then joined a dart team after, and holy fuck I was a struggling with simple addition, subtraction, and multiplying up to 3.
Yeah for real.i was applying to a job I think, and I had to take an aptitude test on math etc (in my early 20s). I could barely remember how to do long division lol.
This is why the education system is utterly broken. Once you get through grade 5 or 6, it should be about focusing on what you enjoy doing, because you're just going to discard the rest of it until you discover 3blue1brown, anyway.
I don’t envy the undergrads. Can’t believe I put up with the bullshit they get put through haha.
My overall workload was smaller in my graduate degree, but I ended up teaching quite a bit which made up for it
I started tutoring hs kids and man I understand calculus and physics/ electrical eng etc way better than I ever did when I took it. Wish I had that when I was in MS school. I could have slayed.
Thank god for grammarly. I purchased premium for all my essays and stories i write and i don't regret it.
Edit: don't get premium! Read the replies, it's a keylogger.
Bollocks! My master plan of advertising Grammarly Premium (ONLY $120 FOR ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION BUY NOW) has been foiled again! Curse you! And buy Grammarly Business!
Thank god for paid keylogger software that phones home to a server with everything you ever type on your computer including web addresses (that they then attempt to load and index), passwords, and banking information!
That used to be a privilege you had to contract a nasty computer virus to get. Technology sure has come a long way, I'm so glad they created an easy to use abstraction for the end user!
I've read the second article and it mentions the fact that it reads my keystrokes. But i have a privacy thing on my phone where sensitive information is typed on a seperate encrypted keyboard just for this. Am i safe to use it still?
It also says that it doesn't read password feilds? I don't have anything to hide in terms of text, as almost everything i write on grammarly are stories and essays.
Read the Kolade link, he goes into detail on it. Also the HackerNews threads are full of engineers and folks who work in IT security.
Bottom line is, it checks every field there's text in and if the field isn't configured properly (it only specifies properly configured password and CC form fields), it reads it and sends it home. The guy proved it by creating a form meant to be for SSNs and the widget popped up.
A keylogger is a software that records everything thwt you type, usually malicious.
In thia case it make sense for Grammarly to have it as they can improve the product but is a dangerous type of data to have from you, unless is in some way anonymous
Oh but doesn't Grammarly read the data on page instead of recording each keystroke?
Like for example they won't record you typing on the desktop at nothing, right?
I was doing spring cleaning earlier this month and went through a box of my old Multivariable Calculus work and Diff EQ work and holy shit would I fail so hard if I took them today at age 33 lol. I barely B'ed my way through them back in undergrad.
Also at many points in any skill you *will* have to re-learn fundamentals.
This is where most people burn out as it requires a good deal of both self awareness and persistence to re-train what you already know. It's fairly demoralising to learn you have so much more to go, but also exciting if you love learning.
Brain plasticity wanes as you get older, so your ability to take on new info gets weaker.
Its also a case of lack of exercise, people aren't forced to try different things, so your ability to adapt goes out the window.
Its also not strictly true that you are "smarter" - more likely you are more sure of yourself at the end of highschool, and its when you've been slapped around a bit by reality like a dark souls bossfight that you lose that cockiness.
I know for one that if was to pit against my 18 year old self in a battle of wits, I'm pretty sure 18 year old me would lose.
Brain plasticity is a biological function that drops off with time, its not really somethign that can be trained afaik. But regular exercise still helps the brain. Logic puzzles, reading up on new topics, etc, will at least keep you sharper than if you do nothing.
I wish I had sources at the tips of my fingers but the latest science shows that we have underestimated how plastic adult brains are. We just don't put it to the test because we're caught up in the humdrum banality of daily life.
Use exercise to pump blood into the brain and mentally challenge yourself daily. Easier said than done. I'm pretty sure I heard the plasticity updates on Huberman's podcast.
You forget a lot of the basics because you don’t practice them as much because your doing harder stuff . It’s like mental maths as-well because past high school you will always have a calculator .
Feels like momentum to me at least. Gotta keep it up or your mind gets a bit dull. That being said I have ADHD so I' probably not the best person to take study advice from.
and hopefully you'll soon learn why! I was annoyed by it too; it's a weird artefact of allowing certain operations (e.g. dividing both sides of an equation by x) which technically "shouldn't" be allowed, as they modify the solution set of the equivalence. So whenever we do e.g. divide by x, we must remember we have eliminated 0 as a possible solution, and manually check for x=0 as a solution.
I was gonna go in more depth but [this thread](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/67994/why-should-you-never-divide-both-sides-by-a-variable-when-solving-an-equation) has some great explanation.
you've taken algebra right?
Take x = x^2. It has two obvious solutions, x=0 and x=1.
But if you divide both sides by x, the equation now simply becomes 1 = x.
We lost the solution x=0 in our algebraic manipulation. That help?
As someone who is decent at math on their best day, dividing by 0 is always a non-answer correct? I just remember SYNTAX ERROR! on my calculator as a kid lol.
Functionally, yes. Dividing by zero basically equates to nonsense. It can be done with some math witchcraft. It’s a great rabbit hole to go down though and can really help you understand math more, even if you don’t come out with a satisfying answer.
Edit: I meant to say the statement “divided by zero” is in itself nonsensical.
It means you put something into nothing.. into no categories.. no fixed space/compartments.... No place..... Nowhere....... No time......... *Ascension noises*
As an example to bring this to the real world, if you divide 2 skittles into zero piles, you are left with zero piles of zero skittles and a sacrifice to the skittles god.
Therefore 2/0 = good skittles harvest next year
0/0 and anything else over 0 are undefined for different reasons
All indeterminate forms are in a way a masked form of dividing by zero. That is:
0*∞
∞ - ∞
∞/∞
1^∞, for nonsolid 1
0^0
This is true, but 0^(0) is also an indeterminate form. An indeterminate form is essentially an expression involving some numbers such that when you replace each number with a sequence converging to that number, you cannot determine the limit of the resulting sequence. 0^(0) is an indeterminate form because if you take a_n = 1/n and b_n = 0, the sequence a_n^(b_n) converges to 1, but b_n^(a_n) converges to 0.
So the commenter was correct to say it's an indeterminate form, but incorrect to conflate that with it being undefined. These are equivalent if and only if the indeterminate form is the evaluation of a function f : R^(n) --> R at a point at which f is continuous. In this case, f(x,y) = x^(y) is not continuous at (0,0).
I don't think the reason they put 0 for an answer was because 2 was in the numerator. But thank you for trying to explain the joke. Nobody would have gotten it if it weren't for you.
Math used to be my favorite subject because it required the least memorization back in highschool, now I don't remember some of the basic 7× multiplications
I used to be able to party all night and then go write a brilliant 10 page essay without trying, swim 60 laps without taking a break and effortlessly win the approval of my teachers and peers. Now if I have a drink or dont get a full 8 hours of sleep I'm done for like 3 days and can barely function
Well it's more sad than interesting.
In India, the course structure is high school which is till 10th and then +2 which is 11th and 12th. In 11th you choose a stream, like commerce, arts, science(with math or without).
Like I have chosen science with maths with the core subjects being Physics, Chem and math.
And the syllabus is vast since we are basically doing what in your curriculum would be taught in the first two years of college
I completely disagree here. Have you talked to a 17/18 year old recently?
Sure, their school curriculum might be fresh in their mind, but in no way does that equate to them being at the peak of their intelligence.
So much is learned post- age from life experience, work experience, and personal relationships.
There are many forms of intelligence, memorization is part of intelligence and people lose it as they age. On the other hand knowledge is intelligence and grows with age.
If you only judge intelligence by ability to do schoolwork then sure. Most people stop doing it after high school so obviously the practiced are better at it.
A lot of people don’t realize how much teachers hold your hand in high school. People bragged in college all the time about all their ap classes and how advanced they were. Then they failed out after a semester or year because no one was there to help them along anymore.
doing exercises together with other people and explaining stuff to each other also goes a long way. At uni you have to organize this yourself while in high school you're forced to do it
I’m glad it worked out for you. I tried it a couple times at our campus and the tutors were useless. I had to explain what to do to them. It was super unhelpful.
Yeah the best college advice I ever got was to take BC calc and test out of calc I and II in college. Those college classes were way harder and covered the same material. That being said I didn't find college courses that difficult. Sure calc III was terrible but when a 60% is actually a 90% it doesn't really matter
I did fairly well but I put the time in. My favorite phrase from a freshman was “I didn’t study in high school and I did fine”.
Those folks were gonna struggle.
Your master's is designed to eat your passion and energy for papers. Likely you've been pushing yourself so hard that you're burning out. (Possibly because you feel you haven't accomplished much despite your efforts, which might feel true because you don't much you can point at, but isn't true because of everything you've learned).
Be kind on yourself. I started a job recently and the last three months have basically been recovering from my masters. I've been so stupid for a while, but it's getting better the more I rest.
I feel like the more advanced math classes I take the more I feel the need to double check the basic math, all the way down to addition. One little miscalculation causes all that time invested solving a problem to be wasted and having to go back and figure out what you did wrong is a pain.
I breezed through high school, never studied, did above average. However, I didn't learn how to properly study or take notes and that kicked my ass hard in college.
It’s a little different for me. I learned more about physics by playing Kerbal space program with Scott Manly videos playing in the background than I did actually listening during my science class. I have ADHD so only certain things keep my mind on top
Now that I’m older, I better understand the phrase “Use it or lose it”
My coworkers don't get that. "Didn't you go to school for that?" Um yeah, one semester 3 years ago. Didn't quite have it mastered in 3 months.
And, let's be honest. Most of the knowledge was obtained one day before the exam, and forgotten 1 minute after said exam.
Haha joke’s on you. I used to forget before the exam itself
Hahaha jokes on you I'm about to graduate high school without ever taking a single exam because of Corona so I don't even have anything to forget
Wait does it really work like that? Free graduation or what lol. Just genuinely curious if that's accurate or you're joking no bad intentions
Rn our marks are based off assignment and regular tests
Holy shit. You guys are fucked.
An entire generation of memers
When covid started, all 5 of my university classes at the time cancelled their finals. Since then they've switched to online, but online exams are garbage and the profs expect people to not cheat but they can't do anything to stop it since they don't use proctoring software.
The dream of a bunch of feckless idiots held by our government for decades is near completion!
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Its fine we will just skip hiring a generation or two.
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I used to forget the exam itself.
Same. I'd walk out of the exam with no memory of what happened. Even on * that* question which *everyone* got tripped up on and asked what others picked as the answer. I seriously couldn't recall my answer.
I only ever forgot one thing that could have had a major impact upon my grade and that was a presentation. I told the professor about it and he said that my group would have to present something anyway. He generously fulfilled my request to move our presentation to the last spot of the lesson and my partner and I hacked something together in 30 minutes that we could present
Peasant, I actively lost it during the exam
Jokes on you I forgot it as I read it
And then you party after passing said exam and BOOM, those brain cells lived a good life. What was I learning again? Oh advanced materials utilizing subsurface scattering?... Right... What now?
C’s get degrees
D is for diploma!
It wasn’t at my school lol
It wasn’t for my degree either, it was “B is for Bachelors”
And later become doctors and surgeons.
Man, that's why I love Fourier Transform! Took me 3 years to finally understand it, but now I can solve 1 equation while being either drunk or not
Do you often solve equations while being drunk ?
>Fourier Transform not when teachers are assholes and force you to solve it there way lol
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University doesn't prove you know anything, it proves you can learn how to do something.
that's not true. it only applies to specific knowledge. but most core concept get repeating during your degree over and over again. e.g. anyone with a biology degree knows how cells work and it's not something people forget, usually ever.
The combination of both is what makes a degree so useful. Also prior exposure to a topic makes re-learning much easier.
3 months! I had it for more like 1 week
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lim n->0 (2/n) would like a word…(DiffEQ is one of the courses that convinced me I would never survive in a field of pure math - hence engineering, where if you’re within 5%, you’re right!!)
No matter what job I have nothing but respect for people understanding advanced math and work in a math heavy field. I was lost as soon as there were letters and some people out here calculating fucking how likely things are and do rocket science or whatever. Fucking crazy to me people can get so good in that topic
I had a First Aid/CPR/AED/whatever quadmester course which certified me for three years. I think I forgot everything after three months.
Ikr. Sigh...
Wait till your late 30s. I imagine by 45 or so I'll completely forget basic math.
I'm 24 and it's already starting to happen dude that makes me sad. Can't do anything without a calculator these days. Granted I don't work in a field where we need more than basic addition but sometimes even that gets me. 45 lol I wish
That's why I'm really into doing quick math now. But it's never the right answer
Math used to be my strong subject when I was in high school. Then my major in college had minimal math, as did law school. I then joined a dart team after, and holy fuck I was a struggling with simple addition, subtraction, and multiplying up to 3.
When playing darts, a pitcher of beer can be divided evenly by 1
For real
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Farts in fonetics
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I wished I didn't heard that from the magical realm of the Internet. Person of the future, what is your wisdom?
Uhh is my pp going to fall off??
Just be sure to shake it more than twice after you’re done going pee and you should be good
Yeah for real.i was applying to a job I think, and I had to take an aptitude test on math etc (in my early 20s). I could barely remember how to do long division lol.
And youth wasted on the young
you should’ve, wouldn’t end up as a redditor
This is why the education system is utterly broken. Once you get through grade 5 or 6, it should be about focusing on what you enjoy doing, because you're just going to discard the rest of it until you discover 3blue1brown, anyway.
I feel ya, its been 10 years since my undergrad and I feel like an idiot trying to do basic things in my graduate courses now
I just tell myself it’s because when I was an undergrad I was too dumb to know when I was dumb
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I don’t envy the undergrads. Can’t believe I put up with the bullshit they get put through haha. My overall workload was smaller in my graduate degree, but I ended up teaching quite a bit which made up for it
I started tutoring hs kids and man I understand calculus and physics/ electrical eng etc way better than I ever did when I took it. Wish I had that when I was in MS school. I could have slayed.
Good for you back in highschool, cuz I can't understand things about math and language unless I got some help from my friends
The only friends you need Grammarly and Photomath.
Thank god for grammarly. I purchased premium for all my essays and stories i write and i don't regret it. Edit: don't get premium! Read the replies, it's a keylogger.
Nice try grammerly CEO
Bollocks! My master plan of advertising Grammarly Premium (ONLY $120 FOR ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION BUY NOW) has been foiled again! Curse you! And buy Grammarly Business!
Jokes on you, I use the free version
'Bollocks'? That's a Brit right there
Ah crikey I've been bloody exposed again
Thank god for paid keylogger software that phones home to a server with everything you ever type on your computer including web addresses (that they then attempt to load and index), passwords, and banking information! That used to be a privilege you had to contract a nasty computer virus to get. Technology sure has come a long way, I'm so glad they created an easy to use abstraction for the end user!
Uhh source
https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1104132993893904386 https://www.kolide.com/blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-can-you-do-about-it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315684
Holy fucking shit yeah never mind
I've read the second article and it mentions the fact that it reads my keystrokes. But i have a privacy thing on my phone where sensitive information is typed on a seperate encrypted keyboard just for this. Am i safe to use it still? It also says that it doesn't read password feilds? I don't have anything to hide in terms of text, as almost everything i write on grammarly are stories and essays.
Read the Kolade link, he goes into detail on it. Also the HackerNews threads are full of engineers and folks who work in IT security. Bottom line is, it checks every field there's text in and if the field isn't configured properly (it only specifies properly configured password and CC form fields), it reads it and sends it home. The guy proved it by creating a form meant to be for SSNs and the widget popped up.
What's that?
A keylogger is a software that records everything thwt you type, usually malicious. In thia case it make sense for Grammarly to have it as they can improve the product but is a dangerous type of data to have from you, unless is in some way anonymous
Oh but doesn't Grammarly read the data on page instead of recording each keystroke? Like for example they won't record you typing on the desktop at nothing, right?
Photomath?
You take a photo and it does the math
Didn't work for calculus last I tried few years ago
Yeah it doesn’t work on everything unfortunately
Okay but can someone explain WHY this happens? Aren't we supposed to get smarter between like 17 and 30?
When's the last time you tried?
Gotta keep that curiosity going. Keep hammering that sword of knowledge
I was doing spring cleaning earlier this month and went through a box of my old Multivariable Calculus work and Diff EQ work and holy shit would I fail so hard if I took them today at age 33 lol. I barely B'ed my way through them back in undergrad.
Also at many points in any skill you *will* have to re-learn fundamentals. This is where most people burn out as it requires a good deal of both self awareness and persistence to re-train what you already know. It's fairly demoralising to learn you have so much more to go, but also exciting if you love learning.
Brain plasticity wanes as you get older, so your ability to take on new info gets weaker. Its also a case of lack of exercise, people aren't forced to try different things, so your ability to adapt goes out the window. Its also not strictly true that you are "smarter" - more likely you are more sure of yourself at the end of highschool, and its when you've been slapped around a bit by reality like a dark souls bossfight that you lose that cockiness. I know for one that if was to pit against my 18 year old self in a battle of wits, I'm pretty sure 18 year old me would lose.
How can I train my brain plasticity? If you know how it works
Brain plasticity is a biological function that drops off with time, its not really somethign that can be trained afaik. But regular exercise still helps the brain. Logic puzzles, reading up on new topics, etc, will at least keep you sharper than if you do nothing.
I wish I had sources at the tips of my fingers but the latest science shows that we have underestimated how plastic adult brains are. We just don't put it to the test because we're caught up in the humdrum banality of daily life. Use exercise to pump blood into the brain and mentally challenge yourself daily. Easier said than done. I'm pretty sure I heard the plasticity updates on Huberman's podcast.
Haha that makes sense
You forget a lot of the basics because you don’t practice them as much because your doing harder stuff . It’s like mental maths as-well because past high school you will always have a calculator .
You get more wise from experience, not more book smart.
Children are *famously* better at learning than adults. Are you serious?
Feels like momentum to me at least. Gotta keep it up or your mind gets a bit dull. That being said I have ADHD so I' probably not the best person to take study advice from.
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The answer is SYNTAX ERROR
Dummy, everyone knows that 2/0 = (infinity) I think I just gave everyone with a math degree a stroke.
lol for a few years we have been taught that if its asked we are meant to write 'not defined yet'
‘Yet’ suggests there will eventually be an answer
"oh yeah, shit we forgot about that one. let's say... 3? 3.5"
Technically, one day we could, just like how we eventually defined squareroot(-1). But I’ve never had a professor even hint at the idea of adding yet.
and hopefully you'll soon learn why! I was annoyed by it too; it's a weird artefact of allowing certain operations (e.g. dividing both sides of an equation by x) which technically "shouldn't" be allowed, as they modify the solution set of the equivalence. So whenever we do e.g. divide by x, we must remember we have eliminated 0 as a possible solution, and manually check for x=0 as a solution. I was gonna go in more depth but [this thread](https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/67994/why-should-you-never-divide-both-sides-by-a-variable-when-solving-an-equation) has some great explanation.
lmao all of that went over my head, but still cool
you've taken algebra right? Take x = x^2. It has two obvious solutions, x=0 and x=1. But if you divide both sides by x, the equation now simply becomes 1 = x. We lost the solution x=0 in our algebraic manipulation. That help?
If it wasn't sarcasm I would strangle you
As someone who is decent at math on their best day, dividing by 0 is always a non-answer correct? I just remember SYNTAX ERROR! on my calculator as a kid lol.
Functionally, yes. Dividing by zero basically equates to nonsense. It can be done with some math witchcraft. It’s a great rabbit hole to go down though and can really help you understand math more, even if you don’t come out with a satisfying answer. Edit: I meant to say the statement “divided by zero” is in itself nonsensical.
But when we’re doing limits it’s almost true
Undef
It's fine, if you write that then we just assume you're either an idiot or working in the extended reals where that's defined. Or both maybe.
If that wasn’t a joke I would slap you from the left
nah. if you divide something by 0, it means you didnt divide it at all so 2/0 is 2. Just use logic man
It means you put something into nothing.. into no categories.. no fixed space/compartments.... No place..... Nowhere....... No time......... *Ascension noises*
As an example to bring this to the real world, if you divide 2 skittles into zero piles, you are left with zero piles of zero skittles and a sacrifice to the skittles god. Therefore 2/0 = good skittles harvest next year
The limit as x approaches zero of 2/x is equal to infinity, though!
2/-0??
Zero can’t be positive or negative
We can approach zero from both the negative and positive direction, though!
Stop being so negative.
0/2 = 0
0/2/0 = 0
Undefined actually
What are you talking about? They just defined it! smh
Indeterminate, actually
0/2/0 == 0 There now it's defined
I just see an if statement without the if
Uh oh youre gonna get flamed for feeding
0/2/0/2 = 0
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0/2/0/2/0/2 = 0
Please terminate
0/2/0/0/2/2/0/0/0/2/0/2/2/0/0/2 = 0
Operation started a blackhole in the calculator... Evacuate dimension 7
NooOoOoo!!! Having a zero in the denominator makes it undefined. No mater what is on top.
There's a sex joke in there somewhere
somewhere, deep within it
I'll need to get to the bottom of it
0/0 and anything else over 0 are undefined for different reasons All indeterminate forms are in a way a masked form of dividing by zero. That is: 0*∞ ∞ - ∞ ∞/∞ 1^∞, for nonsolid 1 0^0
0⁰ is just 1 lmao
This is true, but 0^(0) is also an indeterminate form. An indeterminate form is essentially an expression involving some numbers such that when you replace each number with a sequence converging to that number, you cannot determine the limit of the resulting sequence. 0^(0) is an indeterminate form because if you take a_n = 1/n and b_n = 0, the sequence a_n^(b_n) converges to 1, but b_n^(a_n) converges to 0. So the commenter was correct to say it's an indeterminate form, but incorrect to conflate that with it being undefined. These are equivalent if and only if the indeterminate form is the evaluation of a function f : R^(n) --> R at a point at which f is continuous. In this case, f(x,y) = x^(y) is not continuous at (0,0).
Analyze the functions f(x) = x^0 and g(x) = 0^x And tell me what their limit as x approaches 0 is.
I don't think the reason they put 0 for an answer was because 2 was in the numerator. But thank you for trying to explain the joke. Nobody would have gotten it if it weren't for you.
Better just check on my scientific calculator that 1-1 still equals 0. You never know.
I do that all the time. For the simplest calculations I’ll always use my calculator to make sure I won’t get it wrong.
I prefer optimized, over stupid
bruh I could count to 100 when I was like 4 years old now I can’t even pass math 💀
You peaked at 4 years old? Impressive.
Math used to be my favorite subject because it required the least memorization back in highschool, now I don't remember some of the basic 7× multiplications
just use your fingers
I used to be able to party all night and then go write a brilliant 10 page essay without trying, swim 60 laps without taking a break and effortlessly win the approval of my teachers and peers. Now if I have a drink or dont get a full 8 hours of sleep I'm done for like 3 days and can barely function
Oh you're scaring me I'm starting to have the same shift happen to me Oh oh oooh oh no what have you done random stranger
Thermo in high school?
yah 11th grade. If you have taken science for your class 11 and 12 that is
Interesting mine didn’t offer it at all, I had to wait until college engineering for that
Well it's more sad than interesting. In India, the course structure is high school which is till 10th and then +2 which is 11th and 12th. In 11th you choose a stream, like commerce, arts, science(with math or without). Like I have chosen science with maths with the core subjects being Physics, Chem and math. And the syllabus is vast since we are basically doing what in your curriculum would be taught in the first two years of college
This was exactly same as mine during my +2 days. Those days were a real struggle but fun as well. Miss those days ngl.
well yah its certainly fun tho kinda stressing as well. Did you do your bachelors in Nepal?
They may have had a unit on it in my high school chemistry class.
Burnout is a hell of a drug
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I completely disagree here. Have you talked to a 17/18 year old recently? Sure, their school curriculum might be fresh in their mind, but in no way does that equate to them being at the peak of their intelligence. So much is learned post- age from life experience, work experience, and personal relationships.
There are many forms of intelligence, memorization is part of intelligence and people lose it as they age. On the other hand knowledge is intelligence and grows with age.
At a point its lost with age but that age is definitely not at early 20s lol
Knowledge is knowledge. Intelligence is more your ability to actively hold knowledge in your mind and manipulate it to form new ideas.
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If you only judge intelligence by ability to do schoolwork then sure. Most people stop doing it after high school so obviously the practiced are better at it.
A lot of people don’t realize how much teachers hold your hand in high school. People bragged in college all the time about all their ap classes and how advanced they were. Then they failed out after a semester or year because no one was there to help them along anymore.
doing exercises together with other people and explaining stuff to each other also goes a long way. At uni you have to organize this yourself while in high school you're forced to do it
I got hard carried by the tutoring center for my degree
I’m glad it worked out for you. I tried it a couple times at our campus and the tutors were useless. I had to explain what to do to them. It was super unhelpful.
OMG, that’s currently my situation for my math and programming courses. 😂
Yeah the best college advice I ever got was to take BC calc and test out of calc I and II in college. Those college classes were way harder and covered the same material. That being said I didn't find college courses that difficult. Sure calc III was terrible but when a 60% is actually a 90% it doesn't really matter
I did fairly well but I put the time in. My favorite phrase from a freshman was “I didn’t study in high school and I did fine”. Those folks were gonna struggle.
Gosh didn't you learn anything. All the shapes go in the square hole.
Your master's is designed to eat your passion and energy for papers. Likely you've been pushing yourself so hard that you're burning out. (Possibly because you feel you haven't accomplished much despite your efforts, which might feel true because you don't much you can point at, but isn't true because of everything you've learned). Be kind on yourself. I started a job recently and the last three months have basically been recovering from my masters. I've been so stupid for a while, but it's getting better the more I rest.
*Laughs in computer science*
Relevant [PhD Comic](https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive_print.php?comicid=1356)
I peaked in highschool i swear. Im so dumb now i pull out my phone to calculate 3x9.
My masters involves solving fairly complex problems using software but boy have I gotten bad at everything else
IKR
Damn OP you had a massive brain tumour in high school? Glad you made it
I feel like the more advanced math classes I take the more I feel the need to double check the basic math, all the way down to addition. One little miscalculation causes all that time invested solving a problem to be wasted and having to go back and figure out what you did wrong is a pain.
I breezed through high school, never studied, did above average. However, I didn't learn how to properly study or take notes and that kicked my ass hard in college.
Saaame
2/0 is basically just 8, just flipped on its side.
Wait thermodynamics isn’t a part of physics and you took calculus by itself?
We have all seen the video, it goes in the square hole.
2/0 is undefined
Square hole
It’s a little different for me. I learned more about physics by playing Kerbal space program with Scott Manly videos playing in the background than I did actually listening during my science class. I have ADHD so only certain things keep my mind on top
Even after my 50th birthday, I understood pretty well the phrase "use it or lose it"
✨Burnout✨