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In the end, all I wanted was to be good at math

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I spent the last year intentionally separated from the math community.

In the end, all I wanted was to be good at math Vivian Loh Jul 02, 2025 30 1 Share I spent the last year intentionally separated from the math community. I wanted to get to know more different types of people, because I thought it would help me understand the world. I was also slightly traumatized from having seen firsthand the negative impacts of completely immersing oneself in the math community. I had seen both sides -- the extreme curiosity and love for learning, and the narrow-mindedness that sometimes also resulted from it. And so, for my entire first year of college, I surrounded myself

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