I Remember Being In Elementary School And Feeling A Deep Alienation At People’s Just Vicious Rejection

Things Math Professors Say

"The proof is trivial." (Oh, cool. Guess I’m just an idiot then.)

"Left as an exercise." (Translation: You’ll never solve this in a million years.)

"It’s obvious, really." (Sure, if you’re a demigod.)

"By inspection." (Stares harder at problem… still nothing.)

"For small values of epsilon." (How small? Subatomic? Microscopic? Vibes?)

"WLOG (Without Loss of Generality)." (Oh, we’re just assuming it doesn’t matter now? Alright.)

"Details omitted." (Because apparently, you don’t need to understand it.)

"By the usual argument." (Which you somehow don’t know because you weren’t born in 1702.)

"Assume the rest holds." (That’s some impressive optimism right there.)

"The usual abuse of notation." (Why does this feel like an emotional wound?)

"Almost surely correct." (But also possibly wrong? Cool, thanks for the clarity.)

"A non-rigorous approach." (I thought math was supposed to be precise?!)

"Assume it’s obvious." (Buddy, NOTHING about this is obvious.)

"The reader may verify." (No, the reader may CRY.)

"To the interested reader." (Guess I’m not interested enough, huh?)

"Well-behaved functions only." (We’re function-shaming now?)

"Obvious to the trained eye." (Guess I’ll never make it out of amateur league.)

"A trivial case analysis." (Trivial to WHO??)

"Integrate by parts, twice." (Bold of you to assume I got it the first time.)

"As you can clearly see." (Oh, I clearly see my FAILURE, alright.)

"It works in practice too." (Unlike me, who barely works at all.)

"Assume a spherical cow." (Are we doing math or abstract sculpture?)

"A standard result." (Not in my standards, pal.)

"We skip the tedious algebra." (No, no, please—I wanted to suffer MORE.)

"Assume non-zero solutions exist." (Okay, now we’re just assuming life works out.)

"The usual topology." (Bro, I don’t even know the unusual topology.)

"Finitely many cases left." (Just kidding, there’s 72.)

"By virtue of symmetry." (Virtue? I have none left.)

"Don’t worry about the constant." (The constant is probably my GPA dropping.)

"Assume continuity." (I’m assuming my brain is breaking.)

"Smooth functions only." (Guess I’ll leave, I’m clearly not smooth enough.)

"The simplest non-trivial case." (Simplest? NON-TRIVIAL? Pick a side!)

"Epsilon goes to zero." (Epsilon isn’t the only one losing it.)

"And the rest follows." (Where? Straight to my breakdown?)

What kind of math are you studying?

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Parents (when their child is young): "I know everything. You must obey my every command. The tiniest amount of doubt toward me is considered so disrespectful that I'm justified in hitting you for it.

Parents (when their child is grown): "Please forgive me. I'm only human. There's a lot I didn't know. I tried my best."

Heartbreaking! The obvious letter to use for this variable isn't available because you already used it for something else!

when you are a child, you solve equations. we grown-ups have to solve inequalities.

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Me and my best friend

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oh youre a math phd? Name 5 equations

1. The functional equation for the completed L-function associated with a modular form.

2. The Analytic Class Number Formula

3. 196883 + 1 = 196884

4. Chinese Remainder Theorem (gives an “equality” of rings)

5. Prime Number Theorem (gives an asymptotic equality of two functions)

(Can you tell what kind of mathematician I am from this? I feel like it’s pretty obvious lmao)

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ok so this is probably just me being a self-obsessed heartless dumbass but is it me or is it that when you're bad at doing something people just tell you to try harder but if you're REALLY BAD at doing something they say "oh it's [mental illness]" and try to actually give you help. what if i do have a mild version of a thing why shouldnt i get help. at least some. just a crumbe of adderall and empathy plz