🧵 undergraduate math story time

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:08:00 UTC No. 16259289

>in an undergraduate abstract algebra course
>second exam
>guy with zoomer haircut and who plays trap music from his phone starts writing all the theorems on his desk frantically before the exam
>old professor who is liberal sees it and doesn't do anything
>zoomer haircut also known to ask for homework answers from other classmates ten minutes before it is due
>I don't snitch because I'm not a faggot
>zoomer haircut follows me to office hours a few days later because he thinks I saw him and is scared of me saying something
>I go to office hours just to ask about the homework
>he follows me into the office and I let him ask his question first
>he asks a question on cyclic groups and literally asks how exponential rules work
>I just think to myself "he can't be serious"
>professor helps zoomer haircut because he is a liberal although there are literally middle school children who can explain this to him
>a few days later a classmate from last semester asks if I want to hang out while he student teaches
>I say sure
>zoomer haircut happens to be there-along with like 10 other people
>We just start talking about random topics toward the end of the session that are interesting and series comes up
>I mention one series which in particular since it has a cool closed form expression (from Euler but can't remember it atm)
>I ask zoomer haircut if he likes series at all
>he glares at me and says with anger "NO I HATE IT"

Seriously, do these people only go into STEM because they can't write essays and only learn how to regurgitate HS problem sets, but when faced with a non-cookie cutter problem the fun suddenly stops and they just want the piece of paper and to get a mediocre job?