Any other phd students here? Or people that work in technical

>>38861605
your main concern with the low carb diet should be the implications of time travelling to the 90s. Make sure not to run into yourself as a child, and don't alter history

>>38861630
Thanks for the words of warning. I'll be careful.

Physics PhD checking in. Can't say I've noticed any mental drop when eating low carb, though I do feel pretty shitty all the time and I drink a lot more coffee.

I get avocado urges when on low carb too, no idea what that's about

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>>38861605
>tfw brainlet
at least i'm jacked fuk u

srsly what the fuck does that even mean

>>38861630
Thissss

Also if be concerned with the time restraints that come along with cooking and eating all that shitty food.

>>38861674
How long have you been doing low carb for?

>>38861605
>not posting tensor form of Maxwell's equations
>restricting yourself to Euclidean spacetime

Are you doing a PhD in history?

>>38861723
>writing maxwells equations in the tensor form

sure is autism in here

>>38861721

I've had 2 x 1 month long low carb periods during my PhD, I don't know if I could take much more than that

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>>38861605
>mfw physics master student
>tfw doing research on grapgene
>tfw got invited to a conference next month due to an article me and my supervisor put up on arXiv
>tfw easily acing grad courses since I read Springer books while doing cardio
>tfw getting paid to read and write journal articles
>tfw taking 1 to 1.5 hours out of every other day to lift literally has no detrimental effects on my productivity
>tfw OP is just a lanky DYEL who's never lifted weights nor homotopies
Downside is that I literally have no social life.

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>>38861723
>what are differential forms
>he has to write out dF = J in local coordinates
>calling others brainlets

>>38861693

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations

>>38862044
Kek. Math PhD reporting in.

>>38862014
>tfw OP is just a lanky DYEL who's never lifted weights nor homotopies

kek

you believe that anon

>>38862014

Sounds pretty perf to me. When/if all those new female grads start moving into the field those conferences are basically going to be like Comic-con.

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>>38862104
>female grads
>in theoretical physics
Rofl consider some other field if your goal is to bag bitches, my sweet summer child.
>>38862094
Nice. What was/is your thesis on?

>>38862146

One can hope.

>>38862146
Density of rational points on some smooth protective varieties

>>38862104
>Be optical physicist
>Start phd in microscopy
>Working with a lot of biologists
>Suddenly girls, girls everywhere
>Only guy in the whole lab that lifts

Why do I have a gf again?

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>>38862170
>algebraic geometry
Wew lad.

>>38861605

Stimulants are your friend. I wouldn't want to be doing academic work at all with the brain fog though, fuck that shit.

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>>38861723
>bothering with fucking tensors for maxwell's equations

>>38862207
It's actually more analytic number theory

>>38862170
>>38862230
Does this have any implications for any real applications? Or is it purely abstract?

>>38862230
>>38862261
>asking about applications of number theory
Application to other parts of math maybe.

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>>38862071
fuk u nerds

Just defended my dissertation. Congratulations to you and the others here who've started grad school.

I've low-carbed intermittently throughout in order to lose weight. I'll say that the first 1-2 days of fog is the worst, and even that's not so bad. Think of a moderate hangover; more lethargy and distraction than anything.

If you're doing keto, expect the same but with more cravings. At no time was my performance ever really inhibited, but I can't say I'd recommend inducing during a high-workload period. Save it for a [long] weekend or during winter/summer "breaks".

I came down for my program as a 270 lb. fatfuck and I'm 192 now.

Good luck with your studies anon.

>>38861674
>Physics PhD checking in. Can't say I've noticed any mental drop when eating low carb, though I do feel pretty shitty all the time and I drink a lot more coffee.

Do you have any good way to measure the energyconsumption of the brain regulary (daily if possible)? One could look at it just like lifting and try to increase it by thinking. Also it would be interesting to find out if the "rest" energy consumption changes if you change your food.

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>tfw too intelligent for school
one day the schools will catch up

>>38862313
Thanks for the post. Congrats on completing.

Did you do IF or just low carb?

>tfw finished my Physics Bachelors but realized I am too much of a brainlet to be anyone of importance within Physics

And now I study philosophy :^) Would you like a side with your burger, sirs?

>>38862313
Field? What was your thesis on? Was it masters or PhD?

>>38861693

There's no such thing as varied genetic intelligence between people in the same sense that there's no such thing as varied genetic ability to build muscle (I. E. There's a genetic component but most people can reach pretty great levels).
Problem is "intelligence" is more difficult to program as we age past our childhood / teens (think early onswt low test) and it's much harder to learn how to learn and how to think intelligently and critically.

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>>38862442
FUK U NERD

>>38862389

IF almost always. It's just too easy (for me, anyway): Skip breakfast, eat peri-workout, and then have a bit more later? Sign me up.

It's also easier to manage mealprep/timing during the no-life periods around thesis/dissertation/paper/poster/comprehensive exam redzones.

Low-carbed when I was trying to cut. Full-on keto. As a disclaimer I'll say that keto/low carb isn't magic: calories are a function of carbs/fats/protein (yes, I needed a PhD for that). But managing two moving parts is easier than managing three, so it worked better for me. ymmv

If there's an interaction effect between IF and low-carb, I didn't see it. It may only manifest at lower bf levels, and I never dipped beyond 10%.

I'll also say that low-carb keto seemed to work really well for bf loss vs. the weight-loss that I noticed from simple caloric restriction. However, there are too many covariates in play; I'm not comfortable saying that macro distribution was the primary factor resulting in bf loss.

>>38862409
PhD is in Psychology; dissertation was in quantitative psychology. Would recommend.

>>38862409

Oh right, dissertation was a Monte Carlo simulation related to problems in mixed/hierarchical linear regression.

Basically I made a program that fabricated data that approximated real-world datasets, and evaluated whether certain statistical assumptions actually mattered.

>>38862622
>evaluated whether certain statistical assumptions actually mattered.
Well did they?

>>38862622
That doesn't sound like psychology rofl. How do models of psychology even be quantitative enough for MC to be applicable? Or do you mean behavioural psychology where you model populations with dynamical systems?
You got any examples of what your model looks like?

>>38862560
>PhD is in Psychology

Literally easy mode bullshit kek

>>38861605
Doing (though really badly) a PhD in Aerospace Engineering. Want to make it with my band.

How do? Tell /fit me

>>38862692

Some did, some didn't. The one I was primarily interested in was whether the distribution of subjects/datapoints (m) per cluster (k) impacted the design effect (i.e. how fucked up your estimates are if you only use simple random sampling on clustered data).

The assumption is that data in clustered datasets follows a uniform distribution (all clusters have 5 people/timepoints/whatever) when most real-world datasets have ranges m per k. Estimates germane to hierarchical models (such as the design effect) usually are presented with caution that unbalanced data may fuck your estimates.

In the end, the estimates don't really seem to be influenced much vis. uniform distribution vs. not. Initially that's kinda depressing for me, since I didn't discover anything amazing, but it's also kinda cool, because it means in practice researchers don't need to fret about unbalanced m-sizes.

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>>38862799
>in my 3rd week of intro statistics course we have to take for no good reason
i understood some of those words

>>38862014
>tfw OP is just a lanky DYEL who's never lifted weights nor homotopies

This made me laugh stupidly

>>38862799

> Initially that's kinda depressing for me, since I didn't discover anything amazing, but it's also kinda cool, because it means in practice researchers don't need to fret about unbalanced m-sizes.

making life easier for other researchers is always a good thing.

sounds like your dissertation was mostly about statistics and research design rather than psychology. was there something more that related it specifically to psychology?

>>38862750

Grad/actual psychology isn't really what you're presented with in undergrad. It's much less the rote memorization nonsense and much more how to design experiments and consume research.

I'll agree with >>38862773 in that a BA or BS in Psych is easymode (and yet we STILL have undergrads who can't fucking manage it), but again, the magic tricks you're shown in Intro Psych aren't really relevant once you're in grad school. I can't even remember the name of the authors of the initial paper on misattribution of arousal. Fun fact: There was an article in Science not long ago that tried and failed to recreate the results seen in the famous experiments/phenomena we teach everyone about in undergrad. Google "Crisis of replication in psychology".

As for MC, HLMs have so many moving parts that closed-form solutions are either impractical or impossible. So rather than doing it via a proof, I did it (or tried) empirically. It was the datasets themselves that were of interest (the m distribution, k, effect size, ICC, etc.) so I varied them on those factors.

The actual linear model was very simple, only two IVs and an interaction (so three Xs), but since everything's crossed the number of required datasets increases multiplicatively. I ended up with over 6 million datasets for analysis. It took 3 PCs 2 months to sim the data, and another 4 to analyze it (because one of the motherfuckers had a HDD failure midway through).

>>38862886

I'm doing a bad job of explaining, but the dissertation was more about the [statistical] method used in psych (and education, and chemistry, and pretty much everywhere) than it was about one particular instance of that method's usage.

>>38861605
Applied math Pretty huge Dick student here. I have never noticed anything difference while on a low carb diet. In fact I would say I am even more energetic although I suspect that is because I am usually hitting the gym and in a nice routine while I am on a low carb diet (ie correlation not causation).

Also coffeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

cont.

I explain it to my normie friends this way: your cellphone usually works and you don't question it. But unless you're an electrical engineer you don't question it; you don't care about sim cards and resistors and shit unless or until it stops working. It's impractical to buy 6 million cellphones and wait for them to stop working, but it's important to know why any given cellphone might not receive texts or explode (looking at you, Samsung). So I basically simulated 6 million cellphones and then stress-tested them to see if I could make any of them break.

Researchers use HLM all the time and because it's arcane [not really, but they don't have the time or training to understand it in depth] they expect it to work without question. So the dissertation was simply to test whether that was wise and, if not, when not.

get off your high horse

I can't be productive enough to get good grades unless I eat at least a bit above maintenance. As result I slowly gained fat from october to july and had to spend the summer cutting as quickly as I could.
How do I stay aware and focused enough during the day without eating too much? When I'm trying to study hungry or on a cutting diet it's just so inefficient I'd never get anything done like that.
Am I just a brainlet?

New computer science PhD student here.

>>38862958

> but the dissertation was more about the [statistical] method used in psych (and education, and chemistry, and pretty much everywhere)

so you could've done that dissertation in any other field?

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Pharmacy PhD here!

>>38862442
Eh. It depends what level you're talking about. I agree that most people, with the proper early intellectual stimulation, can do great in high school and even in most colleges. However, few people have the neurological wiring to be truly successful at STEM grad work. It's like anything else where a fraction of a percent survive: they're all genetically gifted.

>>38861605
keto is known to improve mental clarity.

and you say you're a phd student lol

>>38863444
I forgot to mention that there's actually a lot of work involving this in relation to success at top colleges. I think the cutoff for success at these schools is determined to be an IQ of 120 or 125. Fact is, the majority of people probably couldn't have tacked on 20+ IQ points even with a great upbringing.

For a particularly depressing perspective on this, see Charles Murray's "Belmont & Fishtown".

>>38863461
here's a (You)

>>38861605
I'm an engineer and on keto. Didn't really notice anything after the keto flu mentally but I do more project management than calculations. I do enjoy the higher energy level I seem to be getting and feel like sleep is better than before (more energy, less hours). Also feel more motivated.

>>38861605
I work as an engineer for a defense contractor, and I'm working on my master's

My lifts are shit though so I don't count

>tfw one more year of math BS to go and want to go into grad school
>almost all math people are lanklets or S^2
>had one professor who lifted, my inspiration

Can't wait to try help break the stereotype.

>>38863353

Well, it's not impossible, I suppose. Usually other fields focus more on solely the "applied" or the "statistics" portions of applied statistics though; stressing internships on one side, or only deterministic models on the other.

But it's certainly applicable to several fields. My references section has journals from stats, biostats, education, business, psych, and a mishmash of others.

>>38862261
>>38862271

the commonly referred to application of number theory is cryptography.

>>38861693
In short.

1. Implies that the electrical fields behave like water in a sense that the total flux through a given closed imaginary area around a source is equal to the passing charge or a charge accumulated within.

The integral formulation of this equation would imply that at least. The differential form, which is given, implies that the spatial density of the charge is proportional to how much the field radiates outwards or inwards relative to the source.

2. No magnetic monopoles. Lines of magnetic fields are closed, even if you were to stretch them infinitely.

3. Changing magnetic flux induces EMF in a circuit.
Obvious use in electrical engines.

4. The speed of light can be derived out of this, implies a thing similar to 3, but the other way around. Useful for calculating magnetic fields.

That's the gist of it, without getting into anything complicated.

I did my dissertation on a ridiculously niche topic of CFD applications within the aerospace industry. I slow bulked through the entirety of my undergrad and started keto the first year of my doctorate. You will feel super sluggish for the first couple of days and may struggle a bit with feeling motivated to actually get shit done but after that you'll be back to normal or even better.

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this is the most ridiculously wordy thread of pseudointellectualism I've ever seen.

While a few of you might be legitimately bright and well rounded I hope to god a few personalities are being shrouded by some sort of online autism.
>phd thread
>not being in the club

pic extremely related

>>38863531
>tfw mirin my real analysis professor's sik forearms and weird brazilian accent

>>38861605
I'm a phd student.
Cutting has never been an issue for me, the main problem is finding the time to go to the gym while putting in enough hours in the lab.

>>38864622
>talking about dissertations and graduate level research topics
>psuedointellectual
Are you just a salty undergrad that never got into grad school or something? Being verbose comes with getting a doctorate since the things you are trying to explain can't really be dumbed down into laymans terms.

>>38864622
M'tip

>>38864683
>Being verbose
The grad students here aren't even being particularly verbose.

>>38862044
>thinking "tensor" automatically refers to local coordinate representation
>not realizing "tensor" has invariant meaning as section of a tensor bundle
wew

>>38861605
im an electrical eng PhD candidate and im on steroids fuck off with your pussy shit faggot. lmao

MD/PhD (BME) here. Had a hard time working out MS 1-2, but it has become easier now that I'm in lab full time and on a stipend. My work is clinical TBI research so its a day or 2 of data collection, followed by 2 weeks of analysis and modeling in matlab. Plus the hospital gym is just down the block.

a look at these undergrads might put things in perspective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akbJIH8FAoo

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I really hope you people start taking shit here more seriously, this thread reminded me how important it is to shitpost.

Fuckin go shove a thesarus up your verbose asses.

>>38864971
>start taking shit here more seriously
>it is important to shitpost
pick one

>>38864622
I found this thread interesting (though my stat background is shabby to put it nicely)
You bros find your phd's rewarding? How's finding work?
I'd love to go back and do a phd but when I was a senior in college it looked like a sunk investment

>>38864574
Have a pity (You)

>>38862799
Lol. So much effort for nothing. You should have just consulted with an actual statistician that specializes in non parametric statistics, and they probably could have saved you a lot of time.

>>38865126
What did you expect from a pseudoscience /x/-tier graduate who's trying this hard to pretend as if he's doing actual math?

>>38864817
Combined MD/PhD programs are extremely difficult to get into, from what i've seen. Congrats

>>38861605
CAFFEINE
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>phd/masters programs
>not just getting a bach in engineering then getting straight into the work force to make dosh

enjoy the extra debt and not getting hired fot being overqualified

>>38865830
Some people get bored working out sums all day

>>38865841
work isn't supposed to be fun

that's why it's called work

>>38863364
What setting?

>>38865849
Maybe engineering isnt

>>38865849
Not all work is like that, I love programming work. There's some programming work you can only get with a Masters/PhD like Computer Vision/Machine Learning that looks even more fun

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>>38865830
>extra debt
>this brainlet can't get into grad school without full stipend and funding so he thinks that's the case for everyone else as well
Confirmed never even looked into grad school due to hopelessly low GPA.

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I'm having serious issues with staying focused in classes, I don't know why this is happening but it started probably around the time I started undergrad E&M, senior year. Now I'm in my first year of grad school and it's driving me mad that my mind goes other places during lecture.

How do I fix this problem, /fit/?

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Electrical engineer/Computer Science here :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Anyone have experience with regular amphetamine use & maintaining a bulk + raising lifts???

I've been hitting the addy hard the past week or two and every day after, if I go lift, my joints are stiff and creaky af and my lift is usually terrible and hard. I'm just gonna lay off the shit for a while methinks.

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>>38866222
>started undergrad EM
>in senior year
>somehow now in grad school
First of all intro to EM classes are taught to 3rd year classes at the latest. If it took you all the way to senior year to take that then honestly you're not grad school material.
Secondly you're spacing out because you don't enjoy learning the material. Grad school will be extremely stressful and difficult for you since you 1) don't understand the fundamentals that allows you to do research and 2) you don't enjoy doing said research.

Quit now.

>>38866255
If anything, I find that it makes lifting easier. I just have to focus more on eating enough.

>>38866259
My uni's program was set up so you take mathematical physics and modern physics before you take E&M in your final semester. Quantum is 2nd half of junior 1st half of senior year.

Maybe your school is just different. I still understand the concepts, the focusing problem was pretty minor in undergrad, feels worse now.

>>38866325
>you take E&M in your final semester
*final year, not final semester

E&M is two semesters

my lack of sleep is showing, probably time to go to bed.

>>38866335
Talk to your advisor.

>>38866317
Oh yeah if I take it in the morning before a workout, it's like caffeine in that it improves my lift a bit. But I usually take it on my rest days and do homework. So the next day when my adrenals and everything are shot to shit and I'm still recovering from the drugs, I just feel like an anus

>>38866259
wtf I'm a second year and they're giving us E&M why does doing physics have to hurt so much

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>>38865830
>paying for graduate school

>>38866665
EM is fun if you know what you're doing. Maybe go back to redo vector calc if you can't keep up.

>>38866692
We're allowed to take multivariable calc alongside it, so I'm a bit behind on this gradient stuff but Gauss' law has been pretty fun to work with.

>>38866740
Oh I thought you were having trouble with the vector boundary conditions and Maxwell's equations, but it turned out that you're struggling with the basic of the basics.

>>38866740
how the fuck did they let you take quantum before multivariable and baby shit E+M wtf

>>38866755
we've all got to start somewhere

>>38866762
Well good luck. It'll only get harder from now on.
t. Someone who trudged through Jackson in his undergrad.

>>38862014
>No social life

How do you survive this? i'm sure you need some level of a social life to keep a level head.

>>38862195
Dude, the frustration you must be feeling ...

>>38863497
>project management

apologies

>>38866179
>extra debt
I'll take what is opportunity cost, for $500k please alex

Let's see. Even if I got a 50k stipend, I would still be bout 100k more in the hole per year. times at least 4, probably more like 6, compounding and suddenly I'm at least 500k poorer, at the starting line. But probably way more.

It just doesn't make sense unless you're fucking guaranteed your
>300k starting
which is likely somewhat rare, and the very least, not guaranteed like my 500k calculation is.

If you take into account the decreasing marginal utility of money, and the ever increasing value of time, you're absolutely retarded to get a PhD.

Oh yeah, and this only applies to CS and maybe math. If you're anything else, you're fucked, go get your phd like a good pipetting slave

>>38867004
>500k guaranteed
Nigga what? You should be getting paid to do your phd, teaching, by your scholarship, etc...

And try half of your figure for the total cost at the absolute most

>>38866879
>How do you survive this? i'm sure you need some level of a social life to keep a level head.

lots of PhD students lose their minds. the ones who don't quit become nutcases and shut ins.

almost everyone in my program (including myself) quit after 2-3 years and went into industry to regain sanity and make money.

>>38861605

Third-year biophysics PhD grad student.

Compromising mental gains shouldn't be an issue. If your carb intake is sufficient, your brain will use glucose. If not, your brain will use ketone bodies for energy. Carbs are not essential, and the body is very efficient at extracting energy from the diet (whether its from glucose or fatty acids being converted to ketone bodies or amino acids being converted to glucose).

>>38867074
dawg, be better. The keywords in my post, which you clearly missed, were
>opportunity
and
>cost

Look it up, and definitely don't consider grad school. Ever.

Spelling it out for you: I'm one year out of undergrad and made roughly $180k pre-tax in that year at my sw-eng monkey job (working in the same position as several PhD holders I might add). That figure will keep going up every year for the next 3 years not even assuming any promotions, when I would have gotten my hypothetical PhD at the absolute earliest.

That means the opportunity cost for the first year of a grad program with a $50k stipend is $130k. Taxes fudge this a bit, so lets take it down to $100k. For 4 years. Rounding + compounding gets us to a realistic lower bound opportunity cost of a PhD to being $500k.

Add in employment market instability in T-4 years
Add in specialization difficulties
Add in apathy
Add in FREE GYM

And you should arrive at the conclusion that a PhD in CS makes no sense unless you're trust fund backed by your VC parent with something to prove.

>>38862442
Fuck, you type and structure sentences exactly like my cousin. You don't have PhD in Engineering do you?

>>38867689
Sorry dawg, you switched from debt to opportunity cost and I didn't notice

Also I make more than you lol

Advanced Shitposting major with double minor in sarcasm and saltynomics, ama.

dumbass starting community college here
can you smart people tell me whats your routine for productivity?

How much coffee do you drink?
do you meditate?
Or is it all genetics for you guys
Haven't decided a major but was leaning on environmental science

>>38868584

hope that is being completed in the university of straya m89

>>38861605
I just finished honours in geophysics.

I think drinking and concussions from sport has made me dumber. It's hard to tell. Pretty depressing because I was originally deadset on a PhD.

>>38866879
>>38867102
I started a computer science PhD six weeks ago and I'm suffocatingly lonely. It's such a depressing existence, and almost everyone in my program is either from Southeast Asia or a neckbeard.

>>38867102, what was the field of your program?

>>38867689
>PhD in CS makes no sense unless you're trust fund backed by your VC parent with something to prove
A good stipend is more than enough to live off of, so this part is irrelevant.

I've got my PhD in Dubs and Repeating Digit Systematics, AMA.

And check them

>>38868890
so close

>>38868890
Was getting double dubs part of your plan?

>>38862297
kek

Math PhD studying category/homotopy theory. Best lifts are 172/110/180 kg for sets of 5, ask me anything.

Post candidacy grad life is the best for gains, so much free time to work on research and lift

>>38868622

I'm actually the professor now I graduated years ago. Courses include filenaming 103, advanced implying 401, and board choice for post content shops and dissertations.

University of North Dakota

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>mfw just dropped out of mechatronics engineering after 2 years
>literally the only cert I got was Higher Math 1
>going to the army in 3 months for 7 months of conscription trench digging, then back to a college or doing a dual studies course in the industry, aiming for technical or industrial or economical engineering

Kill me. I just wanted to be an engineer. Why the FUCK did I end up at an university that puts all exams into the semester holidays? I basically spent one and a half years straight studying without a break. Upside is I got pretty good at math now (which I really wasn't when I entered the uni). Downside is I think I burned out a considerable amount of sanity fuses in my head.

>>38869302

What kind of lift are you majoring in? Have you been doing extra courses and credit accumulation for those much needed GPA 5kg bumps (Gain Point Average)

>>38869336
I wanted to be a superior Oly lifter but my basement ceiling is too low to jerk or snatch so I settled for general strength training.

Never cared about gpa, I don't like tests.

>>38862981
applied math as well (operational research)
Deadline for thesis is in 2 days.
Must. Stay. Awake.

>>38869328
>whaaaa I've only been 2 years in uni its bvevy difficuuuuult
yeah sure kiddo, whatever

>>38869360

GST is alright I have a few cousins who majored in non-oly GST and they're making 120k a year doing small lift recourse pythagoryms and increased load efficiency training.

Feels good to be a SARM major

>tfw 4.3kg weekly semester GPA

>>38869379
Your point being?

>>38869361
Topic?

I said applied math but complexity science would probably be a better description.

>>38864683
I think you should look up the definition of verbose. God you're a bunch of cunts.

>>38868617
t. physics -> economics master -> CS phd here. Id say mine own success is mostly genetic, or maybe adaptation from when I was a wee kid (I was playing strategy / city building games like civ 2, ceasar 3 or simcity 2000 when I was 6-7).

however, Ive seen less talented people fet through by pure effort. note that not spending effort is not really an option at the highest level, you can just get away with spending lesser if youre smarter.

>>38863239
Coffeeeeeeeeeee
Hunger suppressant

>>38869469
Are you me?

>>38868617
A few things...

1. You're in America, your grades are inflated
2. Party a lot, get friends etc.
3. Work the amount needed to get a good understanding of your classes

That's it. Thank me later when you get a job. Afterall, your grades don't matter, you won't do a PHD.

Who /mathematics/ here?

I'm only an undergrad shitter though.

>>38869328
>Downside is I think I burned out a considerable amount of sanity fuses in my head.
Yup. Taking my undergrad computer science (and assorted other STEM) work too serious seriously damaged my mental health. This is an increasingly common problem.

>>38869361
Get off 4chan 'til then. You'll be happy you did.

>>38869585
Dude, that describes about half of all STEM grad students.

>>38869633
>You're in America, your grades are inflated
I agree that he doesn't necessarily have to work his ass off, but grad schools and employers are aware of grade inflation.

>>38869633
Oh and 4. People will lie to your face about the time they spend working

>Oh, I only had to read it once in order to pass
Etc.

Don't give a fuck about it.

>>38869754
It depends. Some STEM subjects were easy for me, and I'd sometimes tell people I spent *more* time than I actually did studying. This was either because I felt guilty for gaming the system, or because people thought I had an attitude or was lying when I was honest.

I think the important part is to ignore how much time others spend and focus on your own success.

>>38862773
My PhD in behavioural neuroscience is a psychology PhD.
Try doing brain surgery on rats and then tell me it's on easy mode
>lel

>>38869697
What do you mean, mental health? What did change about you?

>>38861793
>>38862222
i hope you're joking .

>writing kajillions of awkward ass equations
>instead of one aesthetic tensor equation
fuckin manlet DYEL undergrads

>>38861630
ala (actually laughing aloud)

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>>38862297
>nerds
>120+ year old undergrad level shit
you're not gonna make it senpai , im sorry

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Anyone from the UK and done a Engineering Foundation degree before starting a BEng?

Did you cope well?

I didn't do A-level Maths or Physics, so this is the only way to get into a engineering program unless I spend another 2 years in sixth form, which i'd rather not.

>>38870650
*do a Engineering Foundation year

>>38870650
You want to do any math shit you can do before you go to university. You totally want to grab the books of whatever you're going to be studying and study it before you get into the course. Otherwise you will get raped hard as fuck, dude.

It's ALL MATH from this point onwards, no fucking doubt. Beef it up as much as you physically can.

>>38870783
What would you recommend to improve my math?

I'm planning on doing Khan Academy, anything else?

>>38870936
Just go to the university you want to study at and ask first and second semester students to give you some of their homework exercises. Get a feeling for the things that are demanded you know at the uni. Then do them until you can easily solve them.

>>38870936
Get to the level where you understand A level maths, core up to FP1 - or wherever imaginary numbers are introduced. Of course this is required at university, if you're doing a foundation year they should ground you well.
Being fit and an engineer is amazing.
t. A skinnyfat engineer who was intimidated by the few fitizens on my course.

>>38861605

I recognize Maxwell's equations. I tried tons of crazy diets in Graf school. None of them had much of an impact on me mentally.

>>38870936
you want to be very comfortable with

>calculus
>complex numbers
>logarithms
>simultaneous equations

probably more I'm forgetting but if you got them you'll be good to go

the ONLY way to properly learn them is to do problems. lots of problems. for example work through these
http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/resources/exercisebooks/mathcentre/final0502-calc-ref-ukmlsc.pdf

>>38865012

it is important to shitpost

>>38871058
>the ONLY way to properly learn them is to do problems. lots of problems.
Good call. More generally: if you don't get a kick out of solving problems, you're probably in the wrong field.

The same applies to coding and computer science. If writing some clever or useful code doesn't give you a little rush, you probably won't enjoy the field and won't survive anyway.

>>38869976
* using too much Adderall and caffeine, eventually feeling like I needed it to function
* very unhealthy and erratic sleep pattern, often approaching nocturnal (partially because of first bullet)
* difficulty eating enough (partially because of first bullet)
* generally poor physical health, low-moderate but not fedora-tier deterioration of hygiene and pride in my appearance
* generally antisocial, combatant, and withdrawn (partially because of first bullet)
* creeping ennui that made me dogmatic about many aspects of CS and eventually left me horribly burnt out
* trouble enjoying art and music
* trouble getting exciting about research or classes (everything seems sort of like an intellectual commodity to me)
* lost much of the excited diverse intellectual curiosity I had in high school and freshman year (ironically, that curiosity was what made me so successful at first)

I was also extremely lonely or in an unhealthy relationship for the last three years of college, which also contributed a lot. I regressed far from my peak in those three years, and I'm trying to build some of it back now. Hence being on /fit/.

>>38871295
so basically you took too much adderall? ok

>>38871295
And I forgot to mention what may be the biggest one: inability to make meaningful connections to other people. My life was a cycle of working, hating work, procrastinating, taking stimulants, and hating my college (and, to some extent, society) for making my lift so joyless. Of course, it was largely self-inflicted. If I had admitted as a sophomore that I needed to ease up and reassess my schedule and priorities, things would have been much better.

>>38871311
No, I legitimately have ADD, and I was taking low clinical doses (so maybe "too much" wasn't the right way to word it, or only makes sense in context). The Adderall use was more of a symptom than a cause. When you're depressed, lonely, and hate your life, Adderall becomes a way of keeping yourself working the 70 hours/week necessary at colleges like mine instead of laying in bed all day. But that crutch becomes less effective with time.

>>38871311
>>38871344
To clarify a little more, Adderall ossified that dejected despairing feeling that came with constantly being depressed, lonely, and working. I think it made me feel like that was just who I was, which made it easier to do work but harder to get out of my rut. Without Adderall, though, I probably would have taken time off from school or done poorly.

>>38871295
>>38871324
I felt exactly like that... before dropping out. I'm the guy from up above. I just reckoned I couldn't cut it because I wasn't good enough at math. I was working together hard with a bro to make those exams that I didn't. He did. I wish him the best in the uni, but I'm left stranded. Doesn't help that I was on Concerta the entire time too. I also have ADD

I reckon what I need to do is take a year or two to myself, grow up a little, get a different work ethic and try again.

>>38871480
Honestly, I came at it from the opposite angle. I made a 180 coming out of high school and suddenly had a godly work ethic. However, after my first three semesters, my self-imposed spartan schedule was corroding my soul. I was tense, antisocial, developing tics, and just generally disdained anything that wasn't work. I saw how much I could gain by being a machine, so I convinced myself that I'd keep making myself do it. At some point, it becomes impossible to be a mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy human being.