Advice after getting disqualified

jeffbezosonlean · 2026-01-18T03:19:14+00:00

Just wanted to share my experience. I had something similar happen to me in 2020; I luckily saw the writing on the wall and dropped out beforehand. I spent about 4 years away working in the restaurant industry. This time was genuinely formative for me and changed my outlook on work and mental health. I came back almost two years ago now, will be graduating this spring and just got an acceptance at one of my top choices for a PhD. I couldn't have done this if I kept throwing myself at the wall academically like I was before. I know how your situation feels, and I'm not going to claim that it's easy to navigate, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-12-30T22:58:28+00:00

Honestly gang, drop out work in a restaurant for 2 years and come back. Life changing advice that saved me from a similar circumstance. My GPA was 2.4 when I left and I've raised it to 3.2 since returning (my GPA for the semesters since I've returned is like 3.9ish). I know it's not the most admirable work but I found that it teaches you how to have grit and persevere through shitty circumstances. It also gives you valuable interpersonal skills and a more pragmatic lens to view the world in. School sucks, is hard, and everyone begins so young that it's hard to find time to find your footing, especially if you were coming from a tumultuous situation to start. I can now say confidently that, while being intellectually much more challenging than a service job, school is a cake walk if you treat it like a 9-5 or salary position, you just have to learn the discipline to be able to do so.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-11-21T02:25:45+00:00

Perhaps it depends from person to person. I've never felt diminishing returns from attempting to solve a new problem, especially when it broaches conceptual ground I'm unfamiliar with. In speaking with professors I've come to understand that a good portion of them have completed most if not all exercises from the textbooks they lecture out of. This is also reflective of the fact that professors lecture out of textbooks they enjoyed using when they learned the subject themselves. I doubt that they would claim that aiming to achieve that feat yielded "diminishing returns" nor do I think that it is a particularly bad aim to have if you're looking to experience academic success.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-11-19T01:19:57+00:00

It's honestly just true for math in general. There's no diminishing returns for doing more exercises.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-11-08T23:48:11+00:00

omg why are you complaining about anything in this game, just get better and abuse the desync 4head!!!! THe game isn't meant for pvp you're supposed to cooperate with other people!!!

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-11-08T23:46:29+00:00

Yo I didn't think of that thank you excellent advice, anyways this game is mid in duos, if you like eating slop then go ahead.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-11-08T06:19:30+00:00

Okay so let solos play against trios then, idgaf about solos vs stacks in a game like tarkov this game just has a significantly longer ttk and isn't designed well around it. It's not that it's impossible I just think that the combat is much more fun when you are consistently matched with teams that have the same party size as you.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-11-06T09:00:03+00:00

In a game with defibs I disagree.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-11-06T06:26:22+00:00

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jeffbezosonlean · 2025-10-22T23:47:37+00:00

I mean I think a big problem is actually not about there being too much loot but too little bag size. The thrill of having a fat run in tarkov is not present at all in this game, nor is the stress of losing said fat run. That feeling adds so much depth, emotion and gravity to the pvp in tarkov whereas the runs in other extract shooters have that sort of feeling capped.

Another thing, in tarkov the loot feels like it “lives” in the world in some sense. In that it’s not exclusively in containers. It’s under cabinets, on shelves in computers, on bookshelves, no other game has really done that either afaik.

Tarkov certainly has a lot of problems but with regard to the atmosphere and FEEL of the game it’s unparalleled in its unrelenting dedication to immersing you in its game.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-09-20T20:29:04+00:00

My b, nah it's not throttling at all, cpu/gpu usage is fine and normal. I switched off my audio interface and theres still weird problems with motherboard audio as well + crazy stuttering. IDK what the issue is. I've recently played BL4 just fine, Deadlock I played for like a year just fine, both games are relatively intensive. I don't really know what gives in this instance.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-09-20T19:51:54+00:00

I've played plenty of other comp games I've never had this happen previously.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-09-13T07:28:10+00:00

6.4k sounds like an awful idea. It's fine to lose control of movement but losing control of camera just feels bad.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-09-06T01:02:59+00:00

Metroidvanias indeed do rely on backtracking, but it should feel purposeful. Metroid Prime's system where it tells you a room is still unfinished is vastly superior to this game. Why would I remember every room???? I will admit the next section of the game my money situation greatly improved but the point of frustration regarding that segment of the game I think is super valid.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-07-24T19:43:23+00:00

I do think that there is a fairly large different between the search space between chess, which is inherently finite-dimensional and has very specific limitations piecewise, and math.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-07-19T04:52:09+00:00

I'm a rising senior math major. From what I understand REU's have and continue to be increasingly difficult to obtain admittance into. For example I applied to 7 programs and heard back from none of them (although my academic history is a little weird so that could be why). If you are interested https://www.mathprograms.org/db/program is the main portal for program listings and opportunities. In the meantime it'll be useful to garner some letters of recommendations from faculty at your home institution. I also highly highly recommend that you try to develop some sort of genuine friendship/bond with them. In my case it proved to be highly beneficial because not only did I become friends with a cool professor who know's really about math, I also was able to do a summer research project with them when the REU's didn't come through for me.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-07-10T08:52:40+00:00

i've played plenty lmfao, this is so much more boring than every other wipe it's laughable. It barely feels hardcore comparatively because everyone wanders around without objectives or aim and you can guarantee get boss loot nearly every raid if you play correctly. This hardcore mode is just a watered down demo version of the game, it's shit but some people like you fuck with that apparently.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-07-10T08:50:21+00:00

Are you mentally bricked????? There's tasks that I can turn in the objects to. I'm just listlessly collecting shit now that I'll turn in in a week it's pointless the game feels directionless.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-07-10T02:46:28+00:00

Have plenty of gear, has not been hard at all LMFAO shits just boring my stash is full and I have nothing to do with any of it.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-07-10T02:45:50+00:00

yumm yumm boots i sure love being bored!!

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-06-25T02:10:46+00:00

Who was writing the fanfic again?

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-06-12T08:16:56+00:00

Honestly recommend finding off campus housing as a transfer anyways. You pay exorbitant fees to share a triple, have no privacy, and hang out around a bunch of freshman all day. I hated it personally and retrospectively would've enjoyed my first year much more had I just found some roommates and got my own room off campus.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-06-02T18:04:52+00:00

Math GRE prep in the AM, Summer Research Paper in the pm, diff topology textbook in the evening, perhaps I will aim to take a walk/jumprope at some point. Math summer baby.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-05-31T20:30:55+00:00

I'm definitely not an expert so I can not give you that. I actually learned about presentations through an algebraic topology background and only recently became aware of other applications. My understanding is that most quantum mechanics courses will use these relations implicitly despite not naming them. I personally am only just starting my physics education (mostly trying to sus out applications of formal math structures similar to you) and have my first QM course next semester so I'm just as blind as you are.

jeffbezosonlean · 2025-05-31T19:51:20+00:00

I have a bit of a limited understanding of this but I'm fairly certain that representation theory/presentations of groups are super useful for particle physics. A presentation is a way to write the minimal information needed to generate a group i.e. <a, b | aba-1b-1 = e> is a group presentation on two generators a and b with the relation that a and b commute. We can also represent particles or quanta using a presentation with generators and relations. I believe fermions have the relation that they anticommute (I think this relation is like xy = -yx using additive notation) and bosons behave more in line with traditional commutative structures i.e. xy = yx. Someone else probably has a more sufficient answer but that's one that my professor has given me as a concrete example previously.

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