I think Anna should try writing erotic novels.
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“She opened her data set to him with a coyness that betrayed her desire and he plunged into it with reckless abandon. His fingers flew across the keys of her Ti-89 as he ruggedly worked the table function …”
Geek pron.
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Sorry… no… just no…
edit: I shared this on my discord server. They think it’s hilarious.
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These last few posts have been SOOOO damn great 
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Week 5: day6 (yesterday)
Quick shoulder/back day
Superset1: press- pull-up
3x(8military press-30kg+4pullups
1x(5military press-35kg+4pullups)
Press: 1x2,3-40kg
Superset 2: rows-lat raises
4x(6rows-40kg suppinated grip+10db lat raises-7.5lb dbs)
- had 40min to squeeze this in before sorority event and really didn’t want to do anything that got my HR up too much
I know I’m really skimping on conditioning and cardio lol I’ll just trick myself and say that walking counts…
I will also be getting rid of most of the bad foods that have crept in
Updates
- gym buddy asked to hang out yesterday. This was the first time ANYONE has asked me to hang out (not schoolwork)
- it went great. He a cool guy- into lifting, cooking , smart and pragmatic too. but I also realized that I really have very little to talk about that doesn’t involve Econ or research (he’s ECE) I still had a great time though
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Did Anna go on a date? I have to check back here more regularly
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Technically, yes- any hangout is a “date”
In the social definition of the word, no.
This is amusing and well written,
but even Geeks have standards for pron…
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How much are you walking nowadays?
The same, but keep in mind that it’s not at an appreciable pace, 2.5miles/hr
It doesn’t get my HR up
I was doing some thinking on my walk this morning and had an “aha” moment
Throughout sorority recruitment, they wanted us to emphasize “join the sorority with the women you ASPIRE to be like, not the women you ARE”
The aha (as stupid as it might be) is that I realized this is a good model for finding a partner.
I’m not sure I understand. In the context of a romantic relationship, would that mean that you’re looking for someone who “is” what you aspire to become?
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essentially yes.
I want to be able to learn from my partner and be a better and more productive person because of them
With that said, I also don’t want to feel like I’m not contributing anything.
Learn to see yourself as being on equal footing with others. Not greater than/less than.
The greater than/less than dichotomy creates too much stress on the relationship. The person feels either overburdened and under appreciated or under the gun and never good enough.
That is relationship poison.
Be the corresponding pieces to a puzzle.
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If you put them on a pedestal all they can ever do is look down
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Week 6:day1 (Monday)
Barbells taken in the PM, subbed good mornings wjth SLDL using 30lb dbs, did a giant set with db press flyes- push-ups- sldl
- this was an epic workout, everything felt light and moved quickly. Kind of paid for it in the pm because felt shot by 2pm
Week 6: day2(yesterday)
1hr very easy on bike (lvl 3, 9.5mpg average)
- got hr up a bit, knees sore and had the chest compression feeling so didn’t push it, got really bored
Updates:
- the fudge was a huge success, ppl loved it! Idt buttermilk condensed milk is a thing so I think I invented something!
- gym buddy came over yesterday and made me a very cute little origami penguin.
- game theory prof is amazing! I wanted to write a model that was only very very loosely based on class concepts for a personal project and he was very willing to spend time to help me
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As much as you like math and these classes, you need to switch your major and go study applied mathematics. I think you would be much more satisfied with your studies.
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I was actually contemplating this after taking diff eq… then decided it wasn’t a great idea
- the workload for maths courses is far beyond what I have now. I was feeling very stressed taking 1 maths course a semester and my other courses easy. To swtich majors a this point is impossible due to prereqs, but even if I could, idk if I could handle taking 4-5/ semester
- I REALLY REALLY like this behavioural science stuff and doing research projects. The logic behind econ and maths makes intuitive sense to me (although the execution is difficult), behavioural science is “easy” relatively speaking to do, but it’s much conceptually harder to grasp, which makes it interesting. For example, I might struggle to work out a difficulty series of maximization problems or proofs, but I still “get” the concept of profit maxing or the clear logic of a=> b=>c QED. OTOH, it’s easy for me to set up a survey, write and throw some code into study first impressions, but I struggle to grasp WHY ppl can’t ignore the fact that someone’s teeth are crooked and just look at the damn resume
- I drastically overweight the value of things like cooking, working out, taking long walks and writing. I’m not able to be content locking myself in my room and doing homework, which is what would have to happen if I’d switched.
With that said,I had a conversation with several ppl in a physics server I’m in (long story), It is now on my bucket list to go back to school and get a maths degree at some point
Idk, but I don’t think you’re wrong. I’m looking what my friend is doing with market design and I wish I could do that.
One of my greatest regrets is giving up on maths in Middle school.
I feel like I think in a very STEM way, but am very behind on the base knowledge
Week 6: day3 (yesterday)
did lunges with 115lbs
- felt awesome! Deadlifts moved so smoothly, felt awesome until around 2pm, getting lunges in was tough. Luckily another friend also happened to be in the gym, nothing is going to happen today…
Updates:
- I really really regret taking one of my classes. It’s also the class taught by my favourite professor. The lectures are amazing and the course material is interesting and not too difficult. HOWEVER, the homeworks are quite unbearable. Instead of doing problem sets, we take data and replicate graphs using R.
Here’s the thing:
- The R required is pretty high level. 1/2 the class hadn’t even touched R before taking this course and I’m only semi competent. The PROFESSOR doesn’t actually use R regularly either.
- We’ve had two assignments so far. In both, I spent hours working on it myself (started the morning it is released), thought I’d figured it out at one point, realized I did it wrong, got stuck figuring it out, met with some people, and realized that all the work I’d done was more or less useless.Sometimes it’s that I’m not using the right code so I get outputs that don’t make sense. Other times it’s R telling me I made an error in line 56 or that “GDP doesn’t exist” and me taking 20-30min+ to realize that I forgot to pipe between lines or accidentally put a period instead of a comma. This situation of having to start over after putting in considerable effort is mentally devastating for me
- I had no business taking the class in the first place. I’m missing department lab meetings to take this course. The original idea was to take it to fulfill my “advanced Econ elective”requirement and also be in the same class as my friend (that one). Turns out, another professor I really like is teaching econometrics, which everyone I’ve asked says is really good AND fulfills the elective requirement
Luckily the prof kind of makes up for this. I emailed him about the situation and he said that I could try in excel and ask for an extension whenever.
This guy is seriously cool. He’s super passionate about Econ and seems to love talking to undergrads. Like, his office hours are basically whenever he doesn’t have class and on zoom “from 8:30 onwards”. He’s also extremely animated and enthusiastic, which definitely keeps us engaged
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keeping with the theme of R, my Econ and data science (class that teaches R basically) prof hates R and at least 1/3 of the students are more proficient at it than her. She told us that she literally learned it the week before school started.
Students regularly tell her what to do during class and she spent 10min in lecture yesterday showing us how to use stack exchange. With that said, she’s amazing. Super nice, does super cool research and reminds me of a doll -
I’ve noticed that a lot of conversations with advisors go like this
Prof: do (insert difficult task)
Me: stares blankly for a couple of seconds
Prof: continues to add more to the task
Me: Sounds good, I’ll figure it out
What I’m actually thinking: @!?&, I have no idea how to do this. Or, ohh boy, this is going to be painful
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I really dislike this kind of thinking. It reduces people to single dimensional entities when nothing could be further than the truth.
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