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[Aklyon]

I'm quite interested tonight.
This is why.

[Vector]

edit: Seriously though, seventy thousand hours? Holy fuck that is crazy.

At the standard rate of 14 hours per day for 10 years, it's 51,000 hours of training.  More than that once the stress kicks in and you can't sleep for more than 4-5 hours a night.  I don't know if you count solving problems in your sleep or not, either; I've had nights where I woke up every couple of hours with a solution, then read another problem, went back to sleep, and "worked" until I solved it.

If you started in a magnet high school, it's more like 71,500 hours of training.

Then you start your career.

[fqllve]

How the hell does anyone become a mathematician? I couldn't even play guitar for fourteen hours a day.

[ToonyMan]

With that much training I would be able to jump on air.

[Vector]

How the hell does anyone become a mathematician? I couldn't even play guitar for fourteen hours a day.

With a hell of a lot of diligent effort =/

Remember, it's basically . . . 6,000 years worth of developments that one is expected to know by heart.  The hardest part of mathematics, I think, is that none of the knowledge is ever rendered obsolete.  You don't wind up with a theory that gets deconstructed, most of the time.  Everything is added to.

[Bauglir]

How the hell does anyone become a mathematician? I couldn't even play guitar for fourteen hours a day.

With a hell of a lot of diligent effort =/

Remember, it's basically . . . 6,000 years worth of developments that one is expected to know by heart.  The hardest part of mathematics, I think, is that none of the knowledge is ever rendered obsolete.  You don't wind up with a theory that gets deconstructed, most of the time.  Everything is added to.

That IS pretty frustrating. I'm lucky Spontaneous Generation was disproven, or else I'd probably have to have spent a couple weeks measuring the conversion of raw meat to maggots over time in order to calculate some sort of Generation Coefficient. Also, I just thought of a great prank to play if I'm ever forced to teach High School Biology.

[ToonyMan]

We won't be in your class, tell us.

[Bauglir]

We won't be in your class, tell us.

It's that thing I just said I'd have to have done.

[fqllve]

With a hell of a lot of diligent effort =/

Remember, it's basically . . . 6,000 years worth of developments that one is expected to know by heart.  The hardest part of mathematics, I think, is that none of the knowledge is ever rendered obsolete.  You don't wind up with a theory that gets deconstructed, most of the time.  Everything is added to.

Yeah, knowing that was the only reason I didn't immediately call bullshit on seventy thousand hours.

It's damn sure more than a hell of a lot of effort though. That's probably twice as much study as any other field, likely five times more than most.

[Kadzar]

How am I? Well for the past few months I've been struggling to figure what I want to do with my life and who I am as a person. I wonder if I've drifted too far apart from my old friends. I wonder if I can ever make new friends. I worry that I never even actually had friends to begin with. I can't even bring myself to admit out loud or in writing more than a very small percentage of what I think.

[Criptfeind]

How the hell does anyone become a mathematician? I couldn't even play guitar for fourteen hours a day.

With a hell of a lot of diligent effort =/

Remember, it's basically . . . 6,000 years worth of developments

They found maths 17,000 ago! Time to start learning more!

[Solifuge]

There is a reason I leave the bulk of my math to calculators and computers... that is a commitment I could never make willingly.

I'm feeling a bit drained... and I have a lot of work ahead of me still. Got too distracted with a creative project, and pushed aside some things that needed doing. Now that I'm done I'm exhausted, and still no closer to having everything I need to do done.

I need to stop distracting myself like this.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

If you don't feel like your education is preparing you, then take it into your own hands.  Just remember that blind studying and rote memorization are useful, just not in the ways you expect:  Even as the math (or similar) seems silly or pointless, it just keeps getting drilled into your head until it's nothing but instinct.

Actually applying some of that instinct is kind of your own job though, no matter what field it's in.  Profs can't do that for you, you just need to find your own initiative no matter what and where.

Huh, That sounds... crap. I myself am terrified at the prospect of going to sleep.

Gah, what's wrong?

I gets terrible nigntmares when I sleep alone.

[calrogman]

Tired.  It's 17:49 and I just want to sleep...

[The Merchant Of Menace]

:3 I'm awesome today. and can't find my pyjamas X3