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Un des problèmes d’aimer le STEM et d’être en ligne chroniquement c’est que mes profs mentioneront les alpha, beta, et sigma et je passerai aux tous les cinq stades de deuil

It's so funny to me that people think of Math/Mathematicians as being hyper-logical and rational. Like, have you seen some of the wild things hiding in the Math?

Did you know there are non-computable numbers?? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant)

Did you know that there are things that are true, but we can't prove them??? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems)

Did you know that we can prove that something exists, and yet never actually figure out what that thing is?? (https://mathworld.wolfram.com/NonconstructiveProof.html)

Math is crazy. Math is wild. Math hardly makes sense, and when you think you understand the weirdest parts of it, everyone who hears you explain it to thinks you're a gibbering lunatic.

"In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them." - von Neumann

(please share more unhinged math with me, i want to see more scary math)

⊹˚. ♡.𖥔 ݁ ˖ 05.may.2024 ⊹˚. ♡.𖥔 ݁ ˖⊹˚. ♡.𖥔 ݁ ˖

Today was a long day, I had to sort out some paperwork that took me all day. 𖦹ᯅ𖦹

I'm starting a course for the ENEM (an exam you have to take to get into university), and even though I'm a bit close, my procrastination is sabotaging me a lot....

This week I'm going to get into a routine for studying, because I'm already more than a little behind in catching up on the content! ദ്ദി(⎚_⎚)

[04.09.2023]

Another day, this time preparing for the next exam on Monday.

I'm more absent since my routine is so hectic, but my pride in dedicating myself has gone.

Now I have to catch up on everything this week and organize my routine (because that's the only way it works) and prepare for the exam.

[19.08.2023]

It's not even a month since my classes started again and I've already got an exam.......

{03.08.2023}

I'm back to the routine of classes, and I'm more dependent on coffee than ever.

Some of the records of my moments°☆•°☆•°☆

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Slime Molds and Intelligence

Okay, despite going into a biology related field, I only just learned about slime molds, and hang on, because it gets WILD.

This guy in the picture is called Physarum polycephalum, one of the more commonly studied types of slime mold. It was originally thought to be a fungus, though we now know it to actually be a type of protist (a sort of catch-all group for any eukaryotic organism that isn't a plant, animal, or a fungus). As protists go, it's pretty smart. It is very good at finding the most efficient way to get to a food source, or multiple food sources. In fact, placing a slime mold on a map with food sources at all of the major cities can give a pretty good idea of an efficient transportation system. Here is a slime mold growing over a map of Tokyo compared to the actual Tokyo railway system:

Pretty good, right? Though they don't have eyes, ears, or noses, the slime molds are able to sense objects at a distance kind of like a spider using tiny differences in tension and vibrations to sense a fly caught in its web. Instead of a spiderweb, though, this organism relies on proteins called TRP channels. The slime mold can then make decisions about where it wants to grow. In one experiment, a slime mold was put in a petri dish with one glass disk on one side and 3 glass disks on the other side. Even though the disks weren't a food source, the slime mold chose to grow towards and investigate the side with 3 disks over 70% of the time.

Even more impressive is that these organisms have some sense of time. If you blow cold air on them every hour on the hour, they'll start to shrink away in anticipation when before the air hits after only 3 hours.

Now, I hear you say, this is cool and all, but like, I can do all those things too. The slime mold isn't special...

To which I would like to point out that you have a significant advantage over the slime mold, seeing as you have a brain.

Yeah, these protists can accomplish all of the things I just talked about, and they just... don't have any sort of neural architecture whatsoever? They don't even have brain cells, let alone the structures that should allow them to process sensory information and make decisions because of it. Nothing that should give them a sense of time. Scientists literally have no idea how this thing is able to "think'. But however it does, it is sure to be a form of cognition that is completely and utterly different from anything that we're familiar with.

28.11.2024 | not happy about my productivity today

✅ full review of gases for chemistry

✅ mcqs from the same chapter

i don’t know what it is lately, but i have been very demotivated and i haven’t been really hitting my goals and to-dos. any ideas on how to solve this?

26.11.2024 | study date with two of my friends <3

✅ chapter of AP calculus (derivatives of exponential and logarithmic functions)

✅ turkish homework (because ms gurl keeps on giving 😔)

🎀 side note. i upgraded to ios 18 and why do i lowkey HATE ITTTT give me my phone back 😭

24.11.2024 | today was a relaxed sunday 🎀🌸🩰

✅ i did turkish hw and finished a unit of msqs

✅ did my chem review and hw (msqs)

✅ did bio review

✅ finished a quiz for AP language

✅ AP calculus review on khan academy and reading a chapter from a textbook

I feel like a lot of people don't realize that studying science is connected to a lot of vocabulary.

Scientific language has its own words, rules and meanings and you have to first understand those rules and the vocabulary before you can actually understand WHAT you're studying.

You can look at a page for 5 hours- if you don't understand the name of the Protein or Molecule or Variable and the reason they are named the way they are, you won't understand the science!

So to anyone who's thinking about studying science or wants to simply understand it better, view it as a foreign language! Learn the rules and Vocabulary!

Shoutout to all the queer folk in STEM. I doubt this is news to anyone but there's always a lot about theatre gays™ or how 'all' queer people's favourite subject at school was English. Here's to all the gays who CAN do maths, to all the queer scientists. I love been a queer in stem!

Full stop. 👍

Roses are red

Mars was once blue,

Until one day the Sun said:

"Hahah, fuck you." 🖕🌞

Hi welxome to my blog I'm Aryan I am currently studying STEM and feel unsure about my decision and if my art account does well I will consider pursuing art instead

Just an opinion but getting into STEM just for a degree or high paying job is a crime against humanity.

Chemistry + Astronomy [Moodboard]

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Anybody here good at physics an willing to answer any questions, I'm desperate 😭

I think i'm cooked for my final ngl

Why Does Life Exist only on Earth

The conditions on earth that support the existence of life seem to be so fine-tuned that it led many scientists to believe that the universe had been designed by something or someone who paid that much attention to detail.

One idea that is used to explain this is the concept of MULTIVERSE. (Yes, kinda like Doctor Strange) According to this, all possible combinations of such conditions do exist in parallel universes. It then seems more natural that life should have developed only in our universe because the conditions in this one were just right.

wanting to study statistics, astrophysics, aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineering, mathematics and bio chemistry all at the same time<<

how do people do hobbies or learn other things on top of university?? I'm trying and it genuinely does not seem possible [we're going to ignore the daily 5hrs of screentime]

01.30.2022

dop ~ 6/100

worked again (but i finally have a day off tomorrow!!!!)

prepped for my ochem lab

made more anki flashcards

had tea in my bunny cup today 🐰

not me forgetting to update my dop after 1 day, can u tell im alrdy struggling

01.26.2022

dop ~ 2/100

went to uni early to get my lab manual and equipment

went to class, almost fell asleep

had my first ochem lab and it went pretty smoothly!

saw a very cute bunny on my way home

01.27.2022

dop ~ 3/100

cleaned !! my !! room !!

finished a whole unit for my microbial diseases class about innate immunity

started making anki flashcards

reviewed more ochem 1

enjoy this beautiful picture of my little sisters orangutan stuffy

01.28.2022

dop ~ 4/100

went to lecture

more ochem 1 review, literally forgot i had notes from 2 sems ago

worked a closing shift

until tmrw ~~~~~╰(*´︶`*)╯♡

i absolutely failed that biochem midterm LMAO

11.18.2021

after a whole week of just working, i finally have four days off! forced myself to do lab prep for tomorrow and studied a bit for my biochem midterm next week. planning to pull all nighters,,, pray for me guys.

I'm going to study Quant now.