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The reason one get hurt is because one cares

Fri, 06/19/2009 - 18:39 | by Mgccl

My mom's view:
Mathematicians are crazy people.
I want to be one so I am also crazy.
But I fails more because I'm still not a mathematician and I go to Stony Brook which she considers fails.
I fail to even fail, that's fail in the epic proportion.
I will die in poverty because a CS + math major gets no jobs especially I'm in a university she consider as crap.

Maybe I will be happier if I study pre-med, and be the person she want me to be, instead of be a loser she believe I always am.

Nah... I'm absorbed in my own self so I chose to stop caring about what she thinks. That might be the better way to deal with this.

I rarely get angry. I don't know how rare is rare. I get angry like once per year. The last time was around July last year. 90% of the time, the person making me angry is my mom. How interesting. When I'm really angry. I have the desire to break objects. I think I have anger management issues.

Ha, she want me to commute to Stony Brook after the freshman year.
No way.
I guess I have no choice but to transfer to other schools. Even if it means I will not like it there.

I always want to be a rational person, but I still get emotional from time to time. Irony. But it's inevitable, I am still human.


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by Kay Li (not verified) | Sun, 06/21/2009 - 22:46
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Math Majors

Math majors get paid plenty of money... as long as they're professors... Professors in the sciences in general make a decent amount of money. Just remember to get your Ph.D. and overcome your fear/hate of calculus.

by Mgccl | Mon, 06/22/2009 - 11:24
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it's hard to be a professor,

it's hard to be a professor, it requires more than a ph.d. very hard and competitive.

by Kay Li (not verified) | Mon, 06/22/2009 - 15:08
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You get a Ph.D.; and then you

You get a Ph.D.; and then you do research; and then you teach; and then you become professor.

by Mgccl | Mon, 06/22/2009 - 20:22
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My dad's colleague hired a

My dad's colleague hired a math ph.d from Princeton for a year with some math stuff. Then this dude have no job and told my dad's colleague he will do it for free for him as long as he hire him whenever he have more funding.
Example of math major from awesome college with no money.

and there are 2000 math ph.d graduating every year.(at least for 2009)
suppose there are 30000 math professors out there in US (reasonable, consider AMS have less than 50000 members, and there are many grad, ph.d students, people outside US and mathematicians who work for companies and the government).
suppose each math professor can stay in their seat for 30 years...
it seems like half of the math ph.d's are not going to be professors.

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