The only reason I exist in your life is for you to be able to determine the answer to that question yourself.
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Fuck yeah
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Yep. 1.5 litres per side.
Problem solved.
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I think she needed to make 77, so wouldn’t that be load the bar to 75 and then add only 1L per side?
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I dunno. If it ain’t freedom unit’s I don’t know what to make of it.
Im pretty sure she does that stuff in kilos to make me feel bad.
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I am not going to tape water bottles to the barbells.
my school uses kilo plates. I’m lazy
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Yep.
Being all smart & fancy!
Of course you know I’m kidding. I doubt you have a malicious bone in your body.
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Week 4: day2 (yesterday )
Turns out the gym was open, just for limited hours btw 1pm to 4pm though. Went with a friend but lines were up the stairwell and no way I’d get a barbell. I ended up showing him the armour building complex and devils presses w/dbs and I got a bit carried away…
Today is supposed to be deadlifts but the gym is closed for maintenance. luckily I got a head start and my upper back is kind of dead
This is one of the “sh*t happens” type days, just skip it and move on…won’t hurt long term progress.
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I’m actually secretly happy
I now have an excuse to take the day off 
The person in charge said that it should be open by the afternoon but I have meetings and chances of accessing a barbell are pretty slim
Speaking of waiting…package pickup contain to be a nightmare. They were thankfully open yesterday but had to wait 1.5hrs. In that time, I came up with this
Line is x people long. For every person skipped, payoff increase by a(x), a constantly increasing function where payoff/person skipped increases as the number of ppl in line increases. Waiting results in a disutility of b(x). Every person skipped experiences a disutility of b’(x)= b(r)+c, where c is a constant representing psychological disutility from being skipped and r is the number of people in front of the individual in line
However, if skipping is unsuccessful, the skipper will be sent to the back of the line and incur a reputation cost. b”(x) = b(x+h)+d. b” uses b evaluated at x+h because it is assumed that people are being added to the line.
Individual utility = p_success(a(x)*k)-p_caught(b”(x)*k)
Or
-b(x)
An individual will choose to skip k people such that p_success(a(x)(x-k))-p_caught(b”(x)(x-k)) is maximized and greater than -b(x). If no such solution exists, the individual will wait.
@polo77j nerd mode 
Hey @anna_5588 you ever beat yourself up when you get a bad grade?
I swear it lives in my head rent free…
Arguably one of the most important skill you can ever learn is to learn what you can from the past and leave them be afterwards.
Easier said than done, I know.
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YES!!! I’ve had literal mental breakdowns.
Here’s what helped me
Even if you plan on going to grad school, getting a mediocre/bad grade in a class or two is inconsequential. I did some calculations and found out that I could get 4 B’s or 1 C and still end up with a >3.7 GPA. Some of the grad students I’ve talked to had GPAs below that and my school is pretty highly ranked
In each class, I can usually manage a B even if 1-2 homeworks (sometimes even a midterm) go VERY badly. Actually, I got a 65 on my first diff eq midterm and failed (<50%) 3/10 of the homeworks for my other maths class still ended with As in both classes
Add that all up and you have a lot of leeway. In the end, no one cares that you got a D on a test or that your A is because the prof generously rounded up. They see the GPA and don’t really ask questions. In some cases outside of academia, they don’t even look at GPA if your other qualifications stand out
A lot of places even do weighted GPAs where they heavily discount the importance of non- major classes. For example, my friend who wants to go to an econ program could get a C in a gen ed history class and that wouldn’t affect his prospects at all (according to some grad students and three professors)
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You’re there to learn, not to win. Leave your winning until you get into your real career.
Take it from someone who was really, really good at winning at class but really, really bad at actually learning.
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She obviously means figuratively literal mental breakdowns.
After the diff eq fail, I went in my room and cried for a couple of hours. I remember thinking that my grad school dreams were over (I wanted to do Econ back then). Then my friend reported that he got a 94
Some thoughts:
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Wow I suck at deadlifting now. I was looking back at my log and saw that I was doing 8x3-emom with 215 before surgery AND weighing at least 8lbs less (I think I was 96lbs back then)
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I am taking a course with my friend’s advisor this semester and had office hours with him. It was a disaster. He basically told me that I wasn’t focused enough for grad school (this I agree with). He also made it very clear that he was beyond impressed with my friend. This made me feel bad bc I’m pretty sure none of my profs think the same of me(certainly not my advisor lol
)- basically, I’m average. -
The prof told me to find my competitive advantage. I can’t think of one. I am better than most of my peers in lifting, cooking and creative writing, but those are hobbies. My friend is probably on par with me on technical writing(the writing that matters), probably better since he’s more meticulous.
But even with those hobbies, I’m still pretty average.
Even if I did win cooking competitions, publish a few articles or break world records, that would still matter less to me than something like getting close to Acemoglu’s h factor or running a successful PE fund
You have bulldog like determination. No matter how many times you get told to increase calories and reduce training, you do things your way. It can be self-destructive, but it’s absolutely an advantage.
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What separates/differentiates an emotional response when you are emotionally invested in the outcome from a breakdown?