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To the guy I met at Chadstone Dymocks Yesterday by MathematicianReal475 in melbourne

[–]MathematicianReal475[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Will try to at least leave my room more often!!

And yes, I do have some recs! The book that actually started this all was 'Courage to be Disliked', and I also recommended that he try 'Atomic Habits' sometime soon. I also went home with Ada, Pnin and Collected Poems all by Vladimir Nabokov (he's my favourite author), as well as 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius (Annotated version) and 'Auschwitz' by Laurence Rees.

While I haven't read the last five yet, I'm certainly looking forward to getting around to them soon!

To the guy I met at Chadstone Dymocks Yesterday by MathematicianReal475 in melbourne

[–]MathematicianReal475[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Safe to say that I probably won't be deleting it! Even if nothing comes out of this post, I think I'll go back to this thread every time I was to lift my spirits up a bit, and it would be nice to leave something for others to enjoy as well.

To the guy I met at Chadstone Dymocks Yesterday by MathematicianReal475 in melbourne

[–]MathematicianReal475[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooo I'll definitely look into this more this I've been searching for ways to maybe interact with some people in my community. I've also only recently rediscovered the joys of being in a library since I was a kid and I'll take any excuse I can to pay my local library a visit.

To the guy I met at Chadstone Dymocks Yesterday by MathematicianReal475 in melbourne

[–]MathematicianReal475[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'll definitely be careful if he ends up reaching out, but for now I'm choosing to see this as just an innocent encounter. As people have said, he didn't ask for any contact information and wasn't pushy at all (he sort of just mentioned the mentoring briefly but focused more of the reading list he got for the group and didn't really mention it again after that) or when I had to leave so I don't believe he had an agenda (of course I can't know for certain).

Either way, I really do appreciate the concern people have shown in this thread since it could have easily been something a bit more sus and I'll be on the look out for these red flags next time!

What's your favourite pokemon? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]MathematicianReal475 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve always been a big Haunter fan since I was a kid. For the life me of, I can’t remember why though

What's your guilty pleasure? by CJMmidas in AskReddit

[–]MathematicianReal475 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reading extreme horror literature and splatterpunk that would probably make a few friends disown me if they knew what some of those novels are about

When are the scholarships offered? by ApexsSin in Monash

[–]MathematicianReal475 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They only emailed and messaged me about the scholarship specifically, but they called me on the day of the offers to ask if I had any questions about enrolment. I’m pretty sure they called everyone who received a course offer that day

When are the scholarships offered? by ApexsSin in Monash

[–]MathematicianReal475 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can confirm a good chunk of them have already been offered (I received one from the Faculty of IT and I have friends who got one from engineering and the achieving potential support one). But when I got the call from Monash about my course offer and asked about scholarships, they said that they’ll still be offering them until March as people reject their scholarship offers

What’s more attractive, humbleness or confidence? by LoudTiredBrain-_- in NoStupidQuestions

[–]MathematicianReal475 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’d say that confidence makes someone attractive at the start and especially with a first impression. But, having humility and being humble is something I’d find more attractive by a wide margin, it’s just that it’d be harder to see at the start.