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Friday, January 13, 2017

Math, A Career or Not?


Sometimes things don't work out


Here's a rather longish, first person account of the life of a theoretical physicist in the making. The ending is not particularly inspiring, but sometimes it's better to know reality than live a nonproductive dream. The subtitle says it all: "Einstein and Feynman ushered me into grad school; reality ushered me out."
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