What Being In A Grad Math Program Is Like

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What Being In A Grad Math Program Is Like

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The eternal struggle of grad math students! You spend weeks hunting for the perfect textbook, only to discover your professor has chosen one written by someone who apparently hates clarity and students equally. It's like they specifically search for books where simple concepts are explained using the most convoluted language possible. "Let's see... this one has 17 unnecessary lemmas before getting to the point and uses notation from the 1800s. PERFECT!" Meanwhile, you're left deciphering hieroglyphics while questioning your life choices and wondering if you should've just become a professional dog walker instead.

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