funfact: in poland nobody really cares about eye contact, maybe other than people who want to have an intimate conversation with you like you'd have during a date or something
I was genuinely suprised when I learned that avoiding eye contact is a symptom of autism, because I didn't notice anybody ever trying to make it. I started paying attention to this whole thing after my diagnosis, where the doctor asked if I always look at the walls while talking to people. it turns out that people indeed are trying to look into my eyes even during the most mundane and routine interactions, but nobody (other than my now ex boyfriend who was so sad when he found out that I perceive eye contact as a threat) ever pointed it out as something that I should do. but then I see (presumably american or just non-polish) people talking about being offended by someone not making eye contact and I experience a massive cultural shock lol
girl i am not looking at your tits i prommy i just hate eye contact
Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*
My cat: Father is…evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.
Balance
[ID: a figure in a textbook that has curved arrows to look like vectors in a field. The figure caption reads, "Is this a vector field? No. It's a picture" /end]
this is going to be difficult -> i am capable of doing difficult things -> i have done everything prior to this moment -> this difficulty will soon be proof of capability
i'm a math student, currently persuing master's degree. this semester I'm taking courses on complex manifolds, category theory, equivariant cohomology and representation theory
my bachelor's thesis was about my partial result in the knot/link theory. right now I'm finishing that proof and hoping to publish it when (if?) I'm done. my interests include algebraic and geometric topology and the goal for this year is to get to know some algebraic geometry
I post updates of how I'm doing, photos of my ugly notes and sometimes share some study methods that proved to be useful to me
oh and math is my special interest, I take it way too seriously lol
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my posts with study tips:
tips for studying math
tips for studying math part 2: you have an exam but the course is boring
abstract algebra things that are good:
groups. i love taking inverses
fields. i LOVE taking inverse
banach algebras. i love having a notion of distance, and also being a complete space
lie groups. i dont know anything about them yet. but they seem so cool. technically groups
abstact algebra things that are bad:
rings. god i hate rings so much. theres like a thousand different kinds of rings, some of which are subsets of each other, and some of which have different names but are actually the same.
can someone please get these hoes under control i'm BUSY
I have just met you and I love you (via)
i’m starting a collection
uhh probably the worst math feeling is when you're so excited about proving something and you talk about it to someone who does math with you and they say oh but it's trivial
⁕ pure math undergrad ⁕ in love with anything algebraic ⁕
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