Hey Time, your post on math brought back memories for me. I started college in remedial math and ended up going all the way through differential equations as part of my science degree. I was like WTH, I can do math? Where the heck did that come from? LOL!
It's a struggle I will always remember because... I almost dropped out of college at more than one point. It didn't help that I was working 20-40 hrs a week and going to school more-than-full-time. At one point (kind of ashamed to admit this), I actually called my mom and was doing all I could while talking to her to keep from breaking down in tears, and I told her, "I don't think I can do this", and she replied, "well, if you fail, you can just take it again, right?".
Well, I couldn't just take it again so easily because I was dependent on grants and scholarships on top of my terrible income as a night janitor just to make ends meet, but the gist of the message still held: do your best, and if that doesn't work, try again somehow. Other people do it, so you can too.
Funny thing, my Senior project in my Major (CompSci) was an application for solving linear algebra matrices. That's how far I wound up going with it once I got over the "impossible" hump. All the calcs, physics, linear algebra, discrete mathematics, probability theory, and so on until I wrote programs to do this stuff.
Anybody want to start a thread on Thue–Morse sequence applications for topological spaces? That would bring back distant (nearly 20 year old ) memories.
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