#math major problems

[sevenfactorial]

Me, explaining how DEs office hours go: Yeah so you go to his office hours with confusion--i.e. questions--and you do get your questions answered at some point, but he also says a lot of other things so you leave with new confusion.

My friend who is not at this university or studying math anymore: Wow this really is call of cthulu

(I relayed this story to one of my classmates who just nodded and made a vague sound of agreement.)

[buddieloustat]

How to survive math grad school:

You don’t.

[sevenfactorial]

*reads homework question for the first time* well that sounds thoroughly unpleasant. okay

[sevenfactorial]

*squints suspiciously at function*

[sevenfactorial]

Professor: I have confidence [that you guys can do this future homework problem]

Student: Can I have some?

[sevenfactorial]

we spent over half an hour trying to figure out why this hw problem worked as it does and there might not even be a deeper reason behind it and we possibly spent longer on the problem than anyone else in the class on it despite the fact that unlike most people, we’ve done this stuff before. But in making the homeworks so easy, our professor has simply made us shoot straight for the rabbit hole every time anything remotely interesting happens.

[sevenfactorial]

Earlier, one of my younger math friends glanced over at my scrap paper and was like “I can’t help but notice you wrote 1 - 0 = 1 there” me: “well I’m not wrong”

[sevenfactorial]

You know, I don't at all regret being a math student and love it. But also I can't help but be a little jealous of people who've never had to write this down in their life

Not to mention now need to prove it...