{"id":32,"date":"2022-01-28T03:55:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/?p=32"},"modified":"2022-01-28T03:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T03:57:46","slug":"that-time-i-realized-i-wasnt-done-with-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/2022\/01\/28\/that-time-i-realized-i-wasnt-done-with-math\/","title":{"rendered":"That time I realized I wasn&#8217;t done with math"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to be good at math. Not like genius-level, but I did get second place in the regional sixth grade math bee. First place went to a kid named Lars (yes, I still remember), who attended the Maharishi school in a nearby town. The school was founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi\">Maharishi Mahesh Yogi<\/a>, who was a spiritual guru to the Beatles and the Beach Boys. I don&#8217;t know why he founded a school in Iowa. Maybe the land was cheap?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I did well in math through high school and then took one semester in college and stopped. I was a philosophy major, I didn&#8217;t need math anymore! What a relief. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zKp9Z8vuOXc\">One less thing<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In grad school, I started realizing I should have taken more math. I enjoyed formal logic, and even taught a few logic classes. But I had lost some of the knack I had for picking things up quickly. Or maybe I just got rusty. Or maybe the mathy stuff just got harder and I was reaching my limit. It seemed like I had missed the opportunity to get more math under my belt during my prime. (zing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This term, in addition to working on this algorithmic stock trading project, I&#8217;m also (finally) taking CS325 Algorithms. Saving the latter until my last term was not completely intentional. I just kept putting it off and filling my two-at-a-time terms with other things. Of course, now I wish I&#8217;d gotten it out of the way sooner. Studying is hard because my eyes start to glaze over real quick with all the mathy bits. Plus I feel old and tired now and can&#8217;t stay up past 10pm studying without paying for it the next 3 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I will survive. Probably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be good at math. Not like genius-level, but I did get second place in the regional sixth grade math bee. First place went to a kid named Lars (yes, I still remember), who attended the Maharishi school in a nearby town. The school was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12016,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/millsap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}