u/FullMetal373

I currently have the Rockaway SP 9ft but have been wanting to throw some heavier lures. The 10ft and 11ft fit that perfectly for bumping up to stuff in the 1oz/2oz range. I had a chance to field test both of them but I’m still conflicted.

I liked the extra reach on the 11 and it definitely felt like it had a bit more backbone. One concern is that I’m not a super big guy and so the 11 is a bit unwieldy and I feel like I’d get fatigued throwing a lure over and over and retrieving. The other thing is I drive an old es 300 lexus. I have a 12ft sharking setup that I can squeeze in there but it has to lay across to the passenger side. The 11ft would probably also be pretty tight. I’m pretty sure the 10ft, in half, would fit in the trunk. My 9ft fits with a bit of room to spare.

Any thoughts? I’m looking to throw larger jerk baits/spoons/metals

Also open to other rod suggestions with similar lure rating and price range

I’ve been out of undergrad for about 4 years now and did my degree in Pure Math. I graduated with a 4.0 GPA taking pretty much all the core undergrad courses and some “advanced undergrad”/“early grad” courses.

I’ve been working in industry since and my math skills have definitely atrophied. I’ve been looking to get back into grad school and have started lightly reviewing my old notes and whatnot.

One of the things I’ve noticed is that outside of calculus/elementary analysis I feel like I don’t really understand math. Or the big picture. Like in school I knew the definitions, could put them together, and do the proofs. But looking back I feel like I never really “got it” if that makes any sense.

To this day I feel like I don’t really understand the determinant, or the rank nullity theorem. Or how group theory is the study of symmetry. I understand automorphisms form a group, cayley’s theorem, group actions etc but the “intuition” I guess never clicked.

Galois theory for instance felt like I was just throwing a bunch of field extensions around and poof a random result of sorts. Or like topology which was just a bunch of definitions and homeomorphisms.

Is this a common occurrence? I feel like it likely had to do with the pace of school where I didn’t really have time to sit down with the topics. Has anyone else experienced this? Did anyone have to review/redo their undergrad material for stuff to really click?