I think most people can learn to do math if they're inspired. Maybe it'll take them 2× as long, no big deal.
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I took Group Theory as solo independent study from Carl DeVito, and that was AMAZING
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Which I think circles back to the point
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He said it was one of his favorite teaching experiences in years, and it was my favorite class EVAR
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I honestly may have just sunk if my first intro to it was in a "big" class (big for Group Theory)
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Yeah, I was almost turned away from mathematics permanently, more than once.
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Oh I did eventually drop out; having a child in the face of the rampant discrimination was too much
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Oh some profs had that viewpoint, but that was not the institutional tone
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It started with little crap, with the polaroid they took of new majors to put up in the dept lobby..
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...somehow getting "misplaced" for me...3 times...while everyone else taken at the same time went up
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