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greenouillee · 5 months ago

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I decided to quit while I'm ahead and graduate early instead of finishing my Master's and I got a decent grade and can move on or whatever but. already it is hitting me how much more I am enjoying and interested in maths, now that I'm not studying it. I have literally been off my course for 2 days and already found the motivation and interest to look up multiple details and ideas for my own interest and how I'm so looking forward to some of the further (independant) study I'll be doing in the next year and just. It's crazy how poor teaching, an exclusively results-based focus, an awfully designed set of modules with poorly chosen content, a set of modules I hated and which I was ill-prepared for, a lack of almost any support from lecturers, no proper tutorials or any seminars for 3 years, and a deeply isolationist learning culture turned out to not be a very conducive learning environment to my AuDHD. who would have thought.

#note that I was doing an integrated Master's which is a UK thing #where you do a regular undergrad and a much smaller Master's in your 4th year without having graduated yet #so you're still eligible for undergrad grants & student loan #but because they're rushed the Master's are considered a bit. well useless #Also we only had max 16 contact hours but usually this was in fact 8 because they just put the other 8 as office hours #which you could only go to for specific queries for max 10 mins #in fairness some of this was due to chronic illness and working a lot (in a job I enjoyed far more than my degree) & Covid & my issues #but also. fuck that uni #mathblr #academia

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