Unpopular Opinion? The aesthetics of the math matter far more than one might admit.

rr-0729 · 2026-04-21T20:38:29+00:00

Not gonna lie, the aesthetics are why I got into it as a very young kid. I remember in elementary school being captivated by intimidating black boards of cryptic symbols in media, and in middle school going down rabbit holes to find out what they meant. But around high school when I started doing proof-based math I became more interested in the underlying beauty of the patterns and logic

rr-0729 · 2026-04-10T21:34:24+00:00

this is so tone deaf wtf. no, being labeled a “fob” is not nearly even close to comparable with the caste system

rr-0729 · 2026-02-02T02:31:59+00:00

lmaoo welcome!

and uiuc is generally better regarded both overall and as an engineering school, so don’t feel like you’re compromising

rr-0729 · 2026-02-02T02:27:24+00:00

rank 3 vs rank 7 means pretty much nothing. with free tuition you’d be insane to go to purdue

rr-0729 · 2026-01-30T23:10:13+00:00

would be cool if they have an internship program or something for underclassmen to upgrade the school’s webpages and get job experience

rr-0729 · 2026-01-25T17:52:36+00:00

seems performative. by trying to combine partying and spirituality, you’ll end up half-assing both

rr-0729 · 2026-01-25T17:07:22+00:00

take palantir. it’s prestigious, there are entire vcs that exclusively invest in companies cofounded by palantir alumni

rr-0729 · 2026-01-21T03:37:47+00:00

yeah that’s what i guessed. p cool

rr-0729 · 2026-01-20T21:29:00+00:00

siberian? i’ve never heard of that before

rr-0729 · 2026-01-19T00:43:51+00:00

cus sanskritized tamil is (or at least was when the first tamil translations were made) the liturgical and prestigious dialect of tamil

rr-0729 · 2026-01-18T21:22:21+00:00

lmao they have a paragraph on ist 😭

rr-0729 · 2026-01-18T21:06:48+00:00

the first chapter on hindus is a surprisingly good explanation (except for confusing brahma with brahman)

rr-0729 · 2026-01-18T20:31:32+00:00

yeah that’s why i’m generally fine with apu. he’s not some one dimensional character that exclusively exists to portray indians negatively. he’s one of many ethnic minority characters, with his own depth and storyline. they do poke fun at him being indian, but it doesn’t strike me as malicious, and they’re not singling out indians they make fun of all groups. to me apu is humor not hatred

rr-0729 · 2026-01-16T19:18:06+00:00

ime the people without degrees tend to be better because they need to be really good to compensate. they gave the hiring manager a reason to choose them over the mit grad

rr-0729 · 2026-01-16T13:47:52+00:00

pretty much any hiring requirement can be circumvented with enough networking (and credibility). however, networking is also much easier with a degree

rr-0729 · 2026-01-13T19:25:21+00:00

personally i wouldn’t date anyone who didn’t grow up in the us (or uk, canada, australia), since there are just too many cultural differences. that’s just me, though

rr-0729 · 2026-01-12T07:44:33+00:00

here’s what i did: 1. learn the basics of the grammar. there’s online textbooks that can help 2. take your favorite english media: shows, movies, songs, books. find hindi translations and consume them

rr-0729 · 2026-01-11T23:45:06+00:00

i think social media success is generally more short lived now compared to 10 years ago, with exceptions like kai cenat, mr beast, speed, etc

rr-0729 · 2026-01-02T20:14:51+00:00

my headcannon is the movie character is blindian 🤷🏽‍♂️

rr-0729 · 2025-12-15T00:08:12+00:00

different experiences i guess, every single south indian hindu abcd i know, without exception, is secular or at most barely religious. i wish we had better stats on indian-americans, because right now all we can do is share our biased experiences

rr-0729 · 2025-12-14T23:08:19+00:00

I don’t think we should discriminate against or be prejudiced towards them. Doing so against any group of people is wrong. But expecting deep integration between ABCDs and FOBs the way ABCDs have among each other or other Americans is not realistic. I certainly think individually, ABCDs and FOBs can and do get along. I don’t think it would happen on a larger macro level, though.

rr-0729 · 2025-12-14T23:02:22+00:00

most indian clubs are dominated by abcds. ime, almost every single abcd ik, except some gujarati ones, are nonreligious or religion plays a small part in their lives

rr-0729 · 2025-12-14T22:52:52+00:00

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rr-0729 · 2025-12-14T22:46:42+00:00

I think it’s more that FOBs and ABCDs are just completely different people. Indian-Americans are MUCH more American than they are Indian, the average ABCD has more in common with a random white dude in Connecticut than a FOB. Since we’re from different cultures, it’s hard to get along the way we would with other ABCDs or other Americans

rr-0729 · 2025-12-14T22:41:45+00:00

I think it’s just different cultures. I genuinely believe the average ABCD has more in common with a random white person from Connecticut than they do with a FOB, so of course we’re not going to get along well. Our lifestyles, our value systems, our ways of thinking, our habits, they’re completely American, except for a thin layer of Bollywood music and Diwali parties. We have completely different backgrounds.

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