Oh, the mathematical fantasy of yesteryear! Back in the day, a Ph.D. in Math supposedly meant unlimited job options and a salary that would make your calculator overheat. Fast forward to 2024, and most math doctorates are frantically explaining to their parents why they're still eating ramen while debugging code for a startup that pays in "exposure" and promises of stock options. The only equations they're solving now involve calculating how many roommates they need to afford rent! The academic dream vs. reality gap is wider than the distance between parallel lines that supposedly never meet (except in non-Euclidean geometry, which is coincidentally where dreams and reality intersect).
The Mathematical Fantasy Vs. Reality Equation
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