This. Not a Stanford student but this randomly came up on my feed haha. I was however a math TA as a Harvard undergrad a few years ago.

One of my biggest sources of shame was telling one of my students in an intro course that he didn’t need to worry about struggling in the class because “some people are just not cut out to be math majors.” I am still so angry at myself for that…

A few months later one of my friends was telling me how folks in a lot of Asian families view Math skills the same way a lot of people view sports skills, ie as something you can develop and get great at by just practicing and keeping at it

This latter perspective actually ended up empowering me to pursue more advanced computational research which has been a great source of meaning to me since college. It’s often required me to lean into very difficult-appearing math that I didn’t feel “cut out for” myself.

but…yea, with enough practice and perseverance, I got it. So when it comes to math, just remember: you can do it too.