After High School, Class Was Almost Everywhere Useless
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After high school, I think sitting in class was useless almost everywhere, in the mathematician’s sense of “a.e.”
Author: Koutian Wu; GitHub: ktwu01
The plan that got me nominated for the Kuo Award did not come from a teacher in class. The knowledge behind my SCI papers was not something I learned in class. My hackathon skills were not taught in class. The skill of applying for funding never came up in a lecture. The teachers who influenced me most, I did not meet in class. The classmates I am closest to, I mostly did not meet in class either.
And my partner and I did not even meet at the same university.
