Kettlebell swings efficiently help with preventing back pain and weight gain for me
Do well in whatever classes you take, learning languages on the side is good if your doing well but prioritize your priorities
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I almost wasn’t even going to write up a post, but I thought it would be worth posting. This will probably be the last post I post on this forum.
Today I was thinking about all I’ve been through from the time frame that I wrote that particular post to now. I used to think that life was a meritocracy, but that is so far from the truth. Even after all this time, I still feel some type of way about all that happened back then. I wish I had focused on studying instead of chasing females and trying to hoop. Literally everything you all talked about happened to me. While most of my peers didn’t really understand what I was going through, you all at least gave good advice, even if it was the opposite of what I wanted to hear at the time. The truth is that the moment I herniated both of my discs, any even astronomical chance of playing even high school basketball was shredded to zero. Instead of just accepting that, I tried to work through the pain. The fact of the matter is no amount of work is just going to fix that. It wasn’t in the cards. I was a helpless and immature kid who thought they could just be headstrong about things. The pill that I had trouble swallowing, and still makes me a little frustrated to this day, was that no amount of work could ever make up for that shit. I would at best always be mediocre, and because I had dedicated so much time to that shit, it never sat right with me.
It’s been three years since I made this thread. Looking through my post history on this site, I literally feel ashamed at how immature I used to be, and I’m not saying this just because this is what you all used to say, it’s simply the truth. I’m sorry for being so headstrong with some of you who helped me. That’s just disrespectful. I’m not here to convince you all I’ve matured, it just resolves things for me personally to acknowledge my past mistakes.
I actually have some direction in the goal sense now, thanks to simply just growing up, living life some, and remembering some of the advice I got on this site.
I major in electrical engineering at UIC. I’m thinking about specializing in microwave engineering, RF, or computational electromagnetics. This online school stuff has been crazy. This has been one of the most stressful times in my life up to this point. One of the main issues I have with university in general is the lack of a holistic and deep approach to learning subjects. For example, in both my linear algebra and my differential equations class this semester, we literally skipped some of the most important topics pertaining to the subject. It bugs me because I care about learning things in their full coverage, and actually mastering stuff. Honestly, I wish I could just drop out of university and self study shit on my own. I have a growing library of mathematics, physics, and engineering textbooks. Planning on hitting the books hard this summer.
Back in December, I was awarded a full ride scholarship with the biggest electrical utility in my state. I also have a summer internship with them starting in June. On that end, things are looking good.
I still am however anxious about the future. My true academic passions lie in physics. I want to research physics in the future, and I know what I need to do to get there. I just hope life can remain stable enough for me to make it happen the way I want it to happen.
I’m still with my HS sweetheart if anyone was curious lol, I cringe at the fact that I actually asked a bunch of random people on a forum about that shit. Like what the fuck lol??
Good news is school will be back on campus in the fall, and I’m getting my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the end of the month. I had no side effects.
If any of you are interested in studying mathematics and physics or anything like that, you can always PM me or something. There’s a Discord server I’m active in where we talk about math, physics, and just life.
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Dude! That’s awesome!
Since you are into maths, do you know how to construct a bojection from the power set of the naturals to a set of functions that map the naturals to {0,1}?
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Dude, please don’t be ashamed of being a 17 year old online lol
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Yes! I took diff eq last semester and I asked whether we were going to go over higher order systems, but prof said no and moved straight into partials. I was honestly quite disappointed
I actually don’t know how to do that. Does it matter that the numbers are natural numbers?
Also, my differential equations class is doing the exact same thing. We didn’t cover systems of ODEs, went straight from Laplace transforms, Heaviside and delta function to PDEs.
Here’s the discord server I’m in if you’re interested.
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The scary thing is… I honestly don’t know 
Wait… you go to CMU??? Me too!
Are you taking diff eq for physics? My friend took that. I took 21260 with Handron
Btw, the problem I was talking about is from 21127 hw
Nah I don’t go to CMU. I go to UIC. I’m really not sure why they skip out on these important topics to be honest. Learning systems of differential equations is a crucial link between linear algebra and differential equations. I’ll just have to make up what we skipped out on later.
One of my friends in the discord server sent me this set of notes on PDEs that you might find helpful.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z-TcTg8d05JE0rIjPSwaIAqfNcURf3lL/view?usp=drivesdk
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yep. lots of matrices in systems, well… the little bit of systems we did
BTW, I’m a behavioural econ and econ major. I’m essentially doing math “for fun”
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It’s a healthy hobby to have. I’m not that familiar with economics, but I do know things like econometrics are pretty mathematics heavy.
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I used to abhor math, my diff eq prof changed that.
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I’m confused about what you’re apologizing for. Sounds like you made some mistakes and some bad choices as a teenager and have now set yourself on a better path. Nothing to apologize for there, we’ve all been there. Glad you’re in a better place.
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