A blog about math, jokes, and crippling existential dread. Wait no, forget that. I'm a happy boy. Filled with sunshine. A functional human being even.
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I have a sideblog: @isaacsuggestions
It's suggestions for The Binding of Isaac
Here i keep all the objects tumblr has given me. It's my inventory:
- 31 724 mushrooms 🍄
- 1 different mushroom 🍄🟫
- 1 log 🪵(warning: not dedekind-finite.)
- 6 561 snails 🐌
- 3 frogs 🐸
- 1 very cool rock 🪨
- Cool cat ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄₎◞ ̑̑
- 1 Blåhaj 🦈
- 102 broken graphite pieces ✏️
- Definitely real olive garden gift card 💳
- Kinda Burnt Algebra 2 Lecture notes ✨📝✨ (quest item)
- ✨✨✨✨✨INFINITE GLITTER✨✨✨✨✨
- 1 Infinite glitter container 🕳️
- Infinite glitter is for the next infinite amount of time currently being moved into the infinite glitter container
- 1 menion 🍉
- (-1) double swords ⚔️ (dual wield)
- the number 487. i own it now. mathematics-official said it
- Thomas the algebraist rat 🐀 (likes quandles)
- Louie the geometer rat 🐀 (likes algebraic stacks :3)
- 1 Ask 💬
- 1 Egg 🥚
- 1 Caterpillar 🐛
- 1 Turkey 🦃
- 1 Crab of Protection 🦀
- 1 Worm 🪱
- 1 ill-defined gift 🎁]
- 1 skateboarding cowboy implied by 0=1 :|>-|0[3
The items in my inventory are supposed to have interactions but I'm too lazy to maintain a consitent schedule, sorry about that
i yam on a brief math break over the summer while i intern in a new city but i still want to practice and get good ; i can handle abstraction but struggle with details / calculations & i dont know how to fix what my shitty middle school forgot to teach me
i think I'd need some more details on what the math you're struggling with is exactly to give useful advice; but if it really is middle school-level stuff, surely you can find youtube videos explaining what you missed, and then do a bunch of practice problems until you feel fine doing computations?
there should be a collaborative writing project (like scp) where it's just. wikipedia but for a fantasy world with magic and shit. give me the made up physics of fireballs and portals. let me read the goblin biology wiki page. the history page of how The Mad King famously won a battle against Blorbovicus the Third. explain how we access it through the Internet by saying that the Institute for Dimensional Magic Research launched a SETI-type project where they are broadcasting their magic waves in possibly other dimensions in the search of intelligent life (SEDI?).
how would you rate pursuing a degree in mathematics on a scale of 1-10
(asking as someone who wants to switch careers at 30)
Well honestly it depends on what you want to do
Are you passionate about math and aim to do research? Sure, go ahead, do pure math, but beware that most people don't make it (I am already lucky to get a phd, and it is a significant possibility that I will not end up getting a position), and that going into academia has a lot of practical drawbacks (like the endless postdoc grind, where you move to a new country each 2-3 years after you finish your phd).
Do you want to become a math teacher? Hell yeah go ahead. What kinds of teaching you can do depends on where you are. Note that if you teach highschool or lower you will not use most of the math you learn during your degree. Also it seems like the material working conditions of teachers kinda suck in a lot of places, so definitely look it up before fully committing.
Are you just looking to switch careers, but don't know what to do, and you like math? If you do applied math, a lot more things open up to you. Especially if you also somewhat like computer science. If you end up in the correct subfields you can even do quite theoretical things while still working at a company. That is something to consider.
Now this doesn't answer the 1-10 scale question but I don't really think I can answer it. Sure, I had a lot of fun doing math for my degree, but that's because math is fun rather than the degree itself being fun. I think math is more enjoyable when you're calmly learning it rather than studying for exams.
Also remember that this is "advice" from some kid on the internet who's aiming to go into academia. I only have a degree in pure math, not one in getting a job. I don't do the kind of math that can be used when working at a company. I'm mostly just repeating what I've heard.
