Student comes into my office to ask about a presentation she’s giving on basic combinatorics. Fifteen minutes later I’m explaining p-adic numbers. Student: Wait, how did we even get here? Me: You let me start talking. This is always a mistake.
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Replying to @ProfJayDaigle
I had the opposite experience. As an undergrad math major, went to see my advisor (with whom I got 15 minutes once or twice a year) and started babbling about p-adics. “I don’t like p-adics” was his advice, once I had run down far enough that he could get a word in edgewise.
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Replying to @Meaningness
This isn't even one of my advisees. She's a student in my junior seminar, which includes all the math majors. In general I have a lot of experiences of "math student walks into my office to talk about something random", probably because I have like twelve office hours a week.
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I wish you had been on the faculty when I was an undergraduate!
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