The Honest Confession :)

😁 [Via The Simpsons]

The thing about computer programming is that it’s a complete pain in the ass when you’re trying to figure out the problem, yet when you finally solve it, when you finally have that aha moment, the feeling of accomplishment is unlike anything you’ve felt when you’ve accomplished something. You think holy shit, I can make technology work, and that feeling is totally worth the long stretch of hours or even days when computer programming feels like a pain in the ass.

real talk tho you might feel like you aren’t doing enough or you’re behind or you haven’t set yourself up well enough and you aren’t in the right place but you can still work it out and there are beautiful, amazing things ahead of you. two years ago I had a 2.8, was on the verge of losing my scholarship, had no idea how to study, and wouldn’t have been able to handle a research position even if I knew how to get one. now I’m working in a lab, have tons of research experience, co-authored a publication, have an amazing advisor who is helping me with a honors thesis, and am set to do eight months of paid research abroad next semester. (and the 2.8 is now a 3.6). it’s not over, it can get better, you aren’t a failure, and wonderful things are waiting.

me: *has 30 million things to do before Monday*

me: *has project that is worth half of my grade due in a week*

me: *has three tests that are the last grades of the marking period next week*

me, dissociating: yeah come over we can watch bojack horseman

In whatever you choose to do, do it because it’s hard, not because it’s easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That’s what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you’re the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (via mathblab)

by Nathan W. Pyle

“How’s that essay going?”

Roses are #FF0000

Violets are #0000FF

I’m in physics and I’ve turned into a nerd

the_bee_movie_but_every_time_they_say_bee_it_gets_randomly_faster_or_slower() by iforgotmylegs https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/5o144h/the_bee_movie_but_every_time_they_say_bee_it_gets/?utm_source=ifttt