u/Dookie-Blaster45

Hi everyone.

So I recently finished this proof today in Numerical Linear Algebra and it was incredibly dense. Every sentence had a new idea which assumed some sort of inter dimensional knowledge which I lacked. Nevertheless, I got through it and I understand it.

But it got me thinking about how i survived undergrad and ended up doing well. I studied mostly with the use of AI, and it’s got me thinking about whether I’m a fraud or not.

Throughout uni, I found myself getting stuck a lot in maths, either with proofs or examples. Whenever I get stuck I’ll ask AI to explain a proof or an idea, then we will go back and forth until I understand it then move on. I’m constantly getting stuck, I cannot read a textbook without using AI, that’s the truth, especially the grad textbooks I’m reading now. If I did my degree 10 years ago, I believe I’d fail and do very poorly, but I did incredibly well in my UG. To clarify, all my exams were in person and invigilated so I didn’t cheat, but I’m starting to think that I’m a fraud.

I literally cannot understand anything without any handholding. I got into a strong masters program, got to the top of my class, but through what? Constant handholding. I’m starting to think that i generally don’t have the mathematical aptitude for research unless I’m brute forcing ideas in my head for 7-8 hours per day with AI use.

Any advice I’d really appreciate it

Hi everyone!

So I’m currently on a gap year before I begin my masters degree at Oxford but I’m finding a hard time finding places where I can meet women in a natural way.

I have a wide variety of interests from chess, mathematics, philosophy to working out, sports, art, cooking and have a very wide taste in music, I’ll listen to everything from rap and r&b to alternate, punk rock, house music, metal and screamer. I also love learning new things.

I’m not amazingly attractive but I’m in decent shape, I take care of myself and I’m well groomed, have good skin with no acne. I do actually always smell amazing becuase I’m quite into fragrances. If you put me in a social setting I’m quite confident, it’s just I find it hard to talk to women when theirs no reason to if that makes sense, like say cold approaching. I just feel off doing it.

I’m not really a massive drinker and with the direction of my life and my friendship group, me being the only single one, I can’t find myself being in the club every weekend.

When it comes to the gym, my gym is very male dominated and also think people are just there to work out, I don’t think it would be right to approach girls in the gym.

I currently do work a student job at a supermarket so this doesn’t open up many “dating“ doors for me either.

Any advice I’d appreciate it. The triangle of work, gym, study is getting to starting to get quite uninteresting, I’m tired of being in this “grind mode” for the last 4 years.

I’ve also tried dating apps but they simply don’t work for me.

Thanks everyone!

Hi everyone

So I’m currently on a gap year between my undergrad and masters and I got accepted into a pretty strong university to study’s maths but I’m having second thoughts, I’m don’t know if I’ll be able to keep up. I really love maths but I’m just worried that I’ll do terrible.

Today I was studying geometry and I was literally stuck on a page for like 2 hours and I wasn’t even hard stuff. I was just directional derivatives. I find myself constantly having to take these definitions, go over and over again on them, open them up, expand all the components to see the structure. Then I try having to connect it from different point things I’ve learnt in the past.

The problem is, I’m constantly doing this, I can’t just accept things for the way they are unless I’ve seen every little detail. I don’t know what to do. I find myself constantly not understanding things in a page of a textbook , asking AI what this means, and then literally 2 hours have gone and I’ve made no progress.

People on my course are going to be super geniuses and I’m an incredibly motivated student, but I’m just worried now that I’m just not simply smart enough to do this.

My graduate course is notorious for being fast paced and I’m just worried with the way I learn I won’t keep up. I’m just an incredibly slow learner.

Any advice I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks guys