One Of My Favorite “never Thought Of That, But Makes Sense” Facts Is That The Moon Looks Upside-down

“Wait, I’m confusing myself. Let’s start over.”

— Logic Professor

friday the 24th of may 2019

hi! i have a week of break now yay and i’ll be less active here sorry

but here’s a pic that i took a month ago when i was studying for chemistry while we were in usa for a road trip!!

dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET? 

Anyone else constantly on edge because we are in the final stages of late capitalism and these next couple of decades are gonna be make or break for the western world, and this just happens to coincide with the part of my life where I’m supposed to make something of myself :/

Yesterday was hard.

I'm in some courses all this week, and I don't understand anything that 3 of the 4 speakers say. And I've just met the new PhD student of the department, and he's really smart and he's understanding most of the things. And on top of that my advisor is asking me to finish a big amount of writing. I feel really stupid and discouraged.

So, list of positive things to take into account this week:

- All of the courses are about PDEs and not Dynamical systems (which is my research topic). It's normal to not understand most of them.

- It is a great opportunity to see how people of other topics work, and what are they interests. You don't need to understand everything perfectly. Let go and enjoy.

- I learned a lot from yesterday's poster session, and from other students.

- Next year I would have a very smart PhD partner from who I could learn a lot.

- I am a slow-learner when understanding new topics, and that is okay. I could have other qualities that make me a good mathematician.

What do we say when we are in a Summer School and we are living hard the impostor syndrome life?

We say: I'm gonna take these much-smarter-than-me people and asked them a fuckton of questions. And I won't stop asking until I have absorbed all their knowledge and they've forgotten their own name.

Can we as millennials and gen-z’s collectively agree that NObody Cares about elbows on the table like Why was that Ever A Problem for Anyone?? We can chill right?

Voyager’s Jupiter and Io