>>16958825
Your life is already supposed to be established by your 20s including any skills you would have had any natural inclination towards. Young people in the ancient days became married and masters of their trade by 18 at the very latest
Only in modern zog world do we still feel a need to learn things in our 30s, because the system was setup to deprive us of such opportunities in early childhood to adulthood and replace it with mandatory imprisonment that robs us of the entire first 20 years of our life

>>16958830
Yeah, but that doesn’t answer my question.

>>16958825
You are too old to study, basically anything.
30=Too old.

>>16958917
How do I get rid of 30TB of porn so I can make room for Analysis III?

Times up unc

>>16958825
>I’m starting a major in applied mathematics
Please reconsider. Mathematicians report horror stories in /scg/ on a regular basis.

>>16958830
>Your life is already supposed to be established by your 20s including any skills you would have had any natural inclination towards.
I as in my late 20 when I got my PhD and about 30 when I had to learn Japanese, and a few years thereafter I had to pivot to get an industry job.
>Young people in the ancient days became married and masters of their trade by 18 at the very latest
That was a simpler world. These days you need a Master's degree to get far.
>Only in modern zog world do we still feel a need to learn things in our 30s,
Feel? We have to in order to get a paying job. And you are likely to have to change. I went to the electronics industry, contract manufacturing, just before it imploded and went East. Then I had to train fr yet another profession.
>because the system was setup to deprive us of such opportunities in early childhood to adulthood and replace it with mandatory imprisonment that robs us of the entire first 20 years of our life
Doing a PhD plus 2 postdoc contract takes you to 30 - 35.

>>16958917
>30=Too old.
Wrong. Even 40 is not too old.

>>16958917
No he's not. I did poorly in math in high school and earlier college attempts, but became competent at it when I was 29/30.

For me, the path was attending a college which had lower level remedial math courses which could send you into the higher ones. Other colleges hadn't worked because it was a system of you have to self-teach and be good enough to test straight into College Algebra and otherwise fuck you, you're going nowhere

Since this is already the older student thread, would it be retarded to try to go for a PhD in my 30's?

>>16959013
I knew a physician who got his PhD in his 50s who recently retired in his mid-70s. Even 20 years is a pretty decent run at something, especially if it's something you really wanted to do. That time will pass regardless of what you do or don't do. Where do you want to be in life in 2046?

>>16958974
What kind of horror stories? I already work as a Business Intelligence Analyst, my idea is to deepen my knowledge in that area. My associates degree is good, but not enough for higher positions

>>16958825
every time they get an answer wrong, cut off a finger.

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>>16958825
Its a waste of time. You will be replaced by AI before you graduate. Renounce civilization. Return to the the wilderness.

>>16958825
Anon if you're already in your classes, best thing to do is just follow along and ask questions, use office hours, set aside some time each day for studying and homework. It won't be perfect at first, but once you get a cadence going, you'll find what works for you. If you're not yet taking classes and are just wanting to self study in order to prepare, the best thing you can do is set aside some time each day, open a text book that relates to the courses that you'll be taking, and consciously go through each section and problems sets, but you have to do it every day or at least most days.

>>16958830
I think people are generally pretty bad at quantifying how much time a few years actually is, let alone a decade. People think cognitive decline is something that will prevent them from learning something new but considering that we live in a information saturated world, as easy as it is to believe that we don't, we use our brain far more on average than any previous time in history. I believe it is that baseline of cognitive usage that makes it easier for people to learn new things at nontraditional and older ages. Either way, the most effective person that can talk you out of doing anything in life is yourself.

>>16959284
>muh AI
kys queer

>>16958917
Basically this.
>>16958825
Best case? Got hit by a truck and isekai to the next life and start there at 3 y.o. isntead of 30.
Second-best case? Just follow any undergraduate courses. Grind your ass out. You will never be the best student or public anything original but you can try your best.

>>16959293
>>16959351
Thank you, anons. I’m just trying to do that, working through the exercises for the admission test. I feel a bit rusty, but we are getting there

>>16959351
George Green was 35 when he wrote his essay on electricity and magnetism which was the work that provided vector calculus with Green's theorem. He did that with no formal education in mathematics. On top of it, his father was a baker.

>>16959444
Wasn’t weierstrass like 30 when he started his contribution too?