here's my number | arielle lok

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i recently wrote about how learning feels incredible when there is no pressure to fit into a set of standards. i’ve consumed more words in the last 2 weeks than i have in the last 2 years alone (a bit sad, but sooo uphill!) and my brain constantly feels stimulated in the way that i take in views, look at the sky, and i am just! always! thinking! i have also been attending seminars scattered around montreal in topics that deeply interest me and are tangentially related to my fall curriculum. today, i went to my first number theory seminar and i admittedly have been looking forward to this to an embarrassing degree. there is something so enchanting about the way humans have accepted numbers and look for patterns with absolute certainty and consensus across the world. i fervently read up on the two speakers and read their papers multiple times just so i could understand <10% of the content they would talk about. there were not enough tables for the amount of seats scattered around a tiny

go back 14092023 here’s my number i recently wrote about how learning feels incredible when there is no pressure to fit into a set of standards. i’ve consumed more words in the last 2 weeks than i have in the last 2 years alone (a bit sad, but sooo uphill!) and my brain constantly feels stimulated in the way that i take in views, look at the sky, and i am just! always! thinking! i have also been attending seminars scattered around montreal in topics that deeply interest me and are tangentially related to my fall curriculum. today, i went to my first number theory seminar and i admittedly…

here's my number | arielle lok

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