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The School Days of Philip Greenspun.
- comatose_kid 18y ago"Freshman physics at MIT gave me my comeuppance. Every week I stared at a whole sheet of problems that I was sure I could never solve even if I lived to be 100. I'd never learned how to work on a problem for more than 10 seconds so I was stuck with a knotted stomach and a panicked brain. Fourteen years of struggle with these kinds of problems in and around MIT taught me, by imperceptible steps, that I wasn't actually better than the average person. If a slight increase in the difficulty of the problems rendered me just as helpless as those poor souls in junior high, then who was I to hold myself above anyone? Without consciously trying to do anything differently, I found myself able to have real conversations with people from all walks of life." From http://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/samantha-XIV http://philip.greenspun.com/samantha/samantha-XIV
- pragmatic 18y agoWhat's with the naked pictures? NSFW!!!!!
- jkcunningham 18y agoThat's how he generates lots of web traffic. Most of his writing is pretty mundane otherwise.
- mhb 18y agoWell, yeah if you click twice to see the 1000x1500 versions.
- mahmud 18y agoThere is nothing wrong with the human body; don't fear it.