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“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it.” — Steve Jobs
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wavefuncle
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@charrlie3045 Don't steal someone else's work. I posted this on reddit but in handwritten format.
You just uploaded this to claude or chatgpt and asked them to write in a rigorous tex (tikz) format so that you can download it as a pdf. Ridiculous.
reddit.com/r/math/s/x9daq…
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As an electrical engineering student interested in pure mathematics, I’ve given an elementary real-analytic proof of the Gaussian integral relying only on algebraic inequalities, trigonometric substitution, and the Squeeze Theorem, no complex analysis or multivariable methods.
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@bluegeaux Bold to say this when you obviously are a 99th percentile consumer of goyslop.
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The average couple. Just both mediocre looking, nothing about their entire existences being noteworthy.
They work a boring 9-5, drive run of the mill sedans and spend their weekends watching TV. They’ll have 2 kids, a boy & a girl - who will carry on this unremarkable cycle.
niyati@socialoppp
don't uninstall hinge yet
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@GenAI_is_real Using LLMs robs the student of these valuable failures that ultimately end up building world-class engineers :(
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engineering is one of the few fields where being a late bloomer is actually an advantage. the best systems architects i know didnt ship anything impressive until their 30s because they spent their 20s operating, debugging, and understanding why other peoples designs failed. you cant skip that phase. theory teaches you what should work. experience teaches you what actually works at 3am when the cluster is on fire and the oncall page wont stop @DeepPsycho_HQ
Deep Psychology@DeepPsycho_HQ
A HARVARD psychologist says: “if you’ve achieved nothing by 25, you’ve avoided the most destructive illusion of youth” > In 2021, a Harvard psychologist surprised a lecture hall with an unexpected statement: “If you haven’t accomplished much by 25, you may have escaped one of youth’s biggest illusions.” At first, the room laughed. She wasn’t kidding. > The illusion of early success. In your early 20s, the brain seeks quick proof of worth ~status, attention, rapid achievements. But psychologists warn that chasing recognition too soon can lock people into roles or paths they never consciously chose. They decide too early… and spend years trying to undo it. > The exploration phase. Research on career development suggests that people who explore more before 30 often build stronger long-term directions. Testing ideas. Making mistakes in public. Changing course. At 25 it looks like confusion ….but by 35 it often turns into clarity. People who feel “behind” in their mid-20s frequently gain something others miss: Perspective. Patience. And a clearer sense of what truly matters to them. That foundation often leads to better decisions later on. At the end of the lecture, the psychologist left the students with one final thought: “You’re not meant to have life fully figured out at 25.” “You’re meant to discover who you’re not.”
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@tomallenoffical There should be a federally enforced cap of how many schools you can apply to. The common app has destroyed undergraduate college applications. This will also fix the absurdly low acceptance rate problem.
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I’ll never understand why black people do this bullshit
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Especially if you want to do something like IB, you can just Google “How to break into IB”. You’ll
Probably learn that you’d be better off either (a) If you don’t got to a target, transfer. Or (b) Join clubs and aggressively network. If you’re just beginning to think about these things as an upperclassman, it was not meant to be. You don’t have it in you.
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@JC1010679150091 @dollarsanddata I fully acknowledge luck exists, but you fail to admit that it the responsibility of the student to maximize their probability of success, and all of the resources/people to do that are accessible.
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A lot of this comes down to poorer kids just not knowing what to do.
I didn't know that I had to apply for an internship in the WINTER of my sophomore year to get a sophomore summer internship to leverage into a junior summer internship to get a full-time offer senior year.
Resolution Foundation@resfoundation
Even after graduating from university, people who grew up in poverty face significant pay gaps when compared with their more affluent peers. @annastansbury explains 👇
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If one doesn’t posses higher order thinking skills to evaluate, I doubt they would find success anywhere but scrubbing the floors at McDonald’s. It is quite simple to forecast these things, provided you care and have a triple digit IQ. It is quite obvious that if you want a job in finance, you should network with peers or acquire skills. To be seem is easier for those at an Ivy, but maximizing your probability of success is trivial. The hard part is actually putting in the work. I really feel sorry for you man. It’s making sense to me why you’ve been such a failure.
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@wavefuncle @dollarsanddata It’s not possible. This wasn’t a tiny little Ivy. The only way you could sift through the sea of possibilities available to you and pluck out exactly those which take you to x, y, or z result is if you had information that enables you to do it first. Every one of them knew.
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I feel sorry you truly believe that… Also, the chances that during a 4 year degree, your schedules never align are about the same probability of winning the lottery. You can also contact them for alternative times. To suggest most professors “despise” their students is more of a reflection of your disgusting attitude than the truth.
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@wavefuncle @moose_bunny @dollarsanddata No, you can’t actually. First of all most professors despise their students and flatly refuse to help. Among those who will, they often have too many students or logistical hurdles. What do you in a 100 person course with office hours during your work schedule? You’re fucked.
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It sounds like you are a highly indecisive person. Don’t project that into everyone else… If you had stuck to one thing, you would’ve seen success. Additionally, it is not the responsibility of the college advisor to “introduce” you to opportunities. For that you should be talking to your professors or looking a job boards. The resources are there.
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@wavefuncle @dollarsanddata I was an art major, a criminal justice major, a politic science major, and ultimately a sociology major. My counselor didnt introduce me to any opportunities, clarity or expectations. When college is first generation, the counselor is expected to actually guide. I also worked ft
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My “counselor” was the person that I went to in order to have an enrollment hold removed from my account each semester. They had zero experience in what I wanted to achieve, and couldn’t even do the basics. Though, at the end of every meeting I’d ask—“what were your historically most successful students doing at this point”. I’d get a cut and dry answer, and use that information. The information is very easy to reach, people are lazy.
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@wavefuncle @dollarsanddata Also even those meetings are bullshit and don’t give any enlightening information. AI can definitely take over guidance counseling. I don’t have a single counselor who’s name I can remember. And I know I’m not alone
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@makawonbudz3 @dollarsanddata This is not true if you're talented.
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@wavefuncle @dollarsanddata Ok now factor in that the majority of these internships are unpaid or low paid and the opportunity might be in a entirely different different city than where you grew up or go to school
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Perhaps it is not that they a priori *knew*, but by being resourceful and seeking to maximize their time at university, realized participating in those activities was common of the students who went on to IB. Which is just seeking information. The information is very accessible too, one can just open linkedin and see.
I cannot reason why a poorer student would not be able to do this any better than a wealthier. The wealthier student may be instructed by family to do xyz, but the poorer student can talk to peers before or after class to build relationships, and consequently, find out...
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@dollarsanddata I managed to break into investment banking as a senior without internships but in my career on Wall Street I was literally the only person I ever heard of who did this. Everyone else managed to know what to internships to apply for and clubs to join as freshmen and sophomores.
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@JC1010679150091 @moose_bunny @dollarsanddata If you have an issue with what they're telling you (or unable to tell you), you can speak to your professors(?)
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@moose_bunny @dollarsanddata By the way, the advisors are middle aged women with sub 90 IQs. They don’t know shit and can’t help you. All they do is change your schedule.
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@JC1010679150091 @dollarsanddata If any of those things are true, you are (a) willingly surrounding yourself with the wrong people or (b) Making life choices based on poor evaluation.
Again, the fault of the person for not taking action to maximize success.
If one has the agency, success will come.
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@wavefuncle @dollarsanddata And if your peers don’t know either or aren’t in the same major or you just don’t know what career to pursue yet and so the topic never comes up?
This is retarded.
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@Twit_Sense @dollarsanddata Agency is neither of those things. Agency is the capacity to act independently and make your own choices. Though, both of those things will improve your probability of success.
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@wavefuncle @dollarsanddata The problem is how they define agency agency to his group is “putting your head down to focus“ agency on the better form is “maximizing my environment“
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@jodyjodie @dollarsanddata Not sure who your "counselors" were, but mine would tell me all of the traits/actions successful students have had. People seem to think information will be spoon-fed to them when in a meeting discussing what classes to take in the next semester...
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@wavefuncle @dollarsanddata No. It’s about the counselors. What are they doing if not communicating next steps that *can* impact trajectory? Internships are not always feasible.
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@DrElonMonkey @dollarsanddata Associating with those types is a choice.
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@wavefuncle @dollarsanddata Its a lot different when your parent is telling you to do something vs some kid that you just drank a bottle of vodka with last night.
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