#calculus class

[sluggishslug]

Skipping my calculus class because I can't look at my teacher's face and turn in a blank test again, sorry buddy, I will study this week I promise

[paracosmicessence]

bad dream

[kh-heritage-posts]

Mole XIII

[8thsniper]

dant

[boycritter]

my calculus teacher seeing a trans man

[lastlabyrinth]

I posted a while back about my decision to attempt a CS degree and my fears about the math classes and learning new languages. Well...

I passed all the math classes! Calc 2 was very hard and I shed a lot of tears, mainly because of the professor and the way the class was designed. I still made it out with an A. I also took an elective languages survey course and did very well there, too.

now the big hurdles are the self-directed courses like software engineering. I really struggle with limiting the scope of my projects when left to my own devices.

There is also an operating systems course I already had to drop once--the most dropped and failed course in the program according to my advisor. But this time I will be brave and try to see it through even if I can't get a perfect grade. Wish me luck! and uh, if you know of any good resources for learning to write command prompt scripts, please share. I watched MIT's missing semester lecture series but i guess it wasn't enough.

[rondo-grazioso]

some math professor quotes

I just remembered about this draft post i made years ago during a semester when i had maybe the funniest professors ever. I guess now that it’s been a while since i’ve been out of uni it’d be fun to just post these 

Algebra

it’s ok that i’m confused, i’m confused all the time

you can teach a monkey to memorize…well, nothing against monkeys, monkeys are amazing

pray that this is an isomorphism

(TA after realizing mistake) oh noooooo….all the other students….i told them the wrong thing…aaah shit

wow…spontaneous silence

can they smurf better

if you look at the solutions after trying a question only once or twice, it will break my heart

last-minute cramming will be about as useful as bringing your dog to the exam

Calculus

this fucker converges

(every time he writes a complicated equation) what the fuuuuu

fuck the one

you know what bfc stands for? big fuckin cube

mathematics is serious!! we don’t like laughter. no laughter allowed. stop laughing. even smiling is not allowed

(someone’s phone goes off) what was that? probably me

(some weird noise coming from outside) what was that? god is that you

e^x is god’s function. lnx is the devil’s function

*comes in talking in a russian accent*

if you don’t know what the dot product is then…you’re fucked 

(after telling a story about experience working in a mental asylum) you may think i’m insane, but you haven’t seen what insane really is!! i’m perfectly normal 

Analysis

½ is less than 1…somehow

oh, 5 minutes left…well, i don’t really have anything else i want to cover. actually maybe i’ll just write a definition *(whole class goes NOOOOO)* okayyy

(finding out there is 15 minutes left of class) oh wow. i thought this would’ve taken me more time to get through

(after playing around with some faulty blackboards) i’m scared for my life now 

(after being stuck on his own proof) i’m going to take a quick look at my notes, which is already pretty embarrassing 

(after making a gajillion mistakes on the board) i really need to learn to read before i talk 

what do you call this in canada

(TA) *coughs* sorry i’m dying 

(TA) somebody on the midterm wrote “i’m dumb” on this question. that’s pretty irrelevant because i’m dumb and i can do this question 

[baradragon]

*rocking back and forth* the only way out is through

[mollyrolls]

i need to sleep for like 72 hrs straight

[cheesemenace]

Has anyone or is anyone taking Calc 2 or Calc B/C? Because.. I am struggling. Please, aro/ace (or not, just targeting my followers) mathematicians 🙏🙏🙏🙏 help a guy out.

[bugmistake]

i really am trying very hard to get better at not caring what people think of me but ummm. being rejected by my peers does still hurt a little!

[stuckinapril]

I thought you liked physics ?

yes I do. I love physics. I love it bc I was raised by a brainiac engineer mother who taught me to see math as fun from a very young age. and sometimes it pisses me off bc I don’t understand concepts immediately and my ego is HURT but then I humble myself and learn it and I’m back to adoring it again

[gynandromorph]

I'll be honest with u chief... I think a mandatory class on logics or cooking would have been more beneficial than a calculus class to the average citizen--

[pulim-v]

You being a chem student makes everything make sense tbh/j

(But that would explain why all your ocs are chem students huh? Wjdhdkwwk)

Yeah part of the inspiration for FGCC was my annoyance with how the Chem course of HS was going lmao it was hellish at some points

[chaotic-history]

I know Voltaire had a rather poor opinion of Diogenes (see: every time he referred to Rousseau as Diogenes; thanks @enlitment for pointing this out), but you'd think he'd at least have appreciated the energy of Diogenes 'answering' Zeno's dichotomy paradox by just getting up and walking away.

[scaredshadowsswap]

Something that I’ve never seen talked about is how terrible it would be to be a woman at the SCP Foundation.

If you look at the Personnel docket, you’ll see it’s mostly men. That is not inherently a problem, but a lot of the characters written as masculine…are creepy.

Like, if you asked Clef for pronouns, you’d probably get a response like “My pronouns are daddy/[moan]”, and then you’re stuck in this weird position. You can call Clef by he or they pronouns since that’s less embarrassing and you know Clef was messing with you, but then you’ll be berated by Clef for not respecting pronouns. Or, you can call Clef daddy, which’ll get some weird reactions from whoever you’re talking to.

Or Strelnikov? If a woman was in Epsilon-5 “Red Dawn”, he’d probably be pretty vocal about his opinions of having women on the team. As shown in his Personnel File, he calls all male nurses “babies”, and I can imagine he has a very long rant prepared about that and this. As shown in his handbook, he is clueless about women. He also seems like a very traditional Russian, which brings with it the slavic gender roles. Women are expected to be subdued, which means you’d be dealing with a lot of sexism from this man, until you manage to prove to him that he’s wrong.

Iceberg too. He just seems very much like an incel, and you’d have to deal with that. Luckily, there’s no way for you to work under him like you would with Strelnikov or Clef since he’s already Gears’s assistant, but if you ever sit near him during lunch or something, it seems so uncomfortable. If you sit near him every day during lunch, he may eventually warm up to you and internalize you as “one of the good ones”, which…is still not good, but better I guess?

The others I usually write about seem better, but with these being some of the most well-known characters in the SCP Foundation, I can only imagine what craziness you’d deal with when interacting with some lesser-known personnel.