What I Learned Today

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/05...grads-fungible

This is also true. New employees are fungible. It doesn't matter how smart you are or how good your grades were. You are fungible the newer you are, and in some ways, always fungible.

I constantly have to remind others of this.

Complain about someone at work? "Oh you should speak to someone about that. You should do something" Uh, I'm more fungible. They've been here longer. If work picked between us, I'd be gone.

People are always suggesting I should take on more debt. Buy a house. Buy a car. Uh, what if I lose my job? I have a $650 student loan payment. and $600 rent. Then utilities and other various bills. I can't just load up with debt. The job might not be there tomorrow.

But ip, spending money you don't have on shit you don't need is the American way!

Using Coursera to teach myself intro to thermodynamics, kinetics, and quantum chemistry. It's fun but I feel so rusty on math.

Part of what I learned today is that there are symbols for "because" ∵ and "therefore" ∴ which I now wish were more common.

I wish the sciences, maths and engineering were more unified in the symbols they used and how the wrote them in text.

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

there are symbols for "because" ∵ and "therefore" ∴

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cool.

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

Using Coursera to teach myself intro to thermodynamics, kinetics, and quantum chemistry. It's fun but I feel so rusty on math.

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Sounds pretentious

I'm actually doing this too. The truth is, I wanted to learn Python, and so I stumbled upon MIT Opencourseware Intro to Programming, which uses Python. They don't screw around at MIT. They're doing 3rd quarter stuff by week 5.

kind of pointless if they give it away for free though

You can pay if you want to be graded and get a certificate, though I'm doing this stuff to prepare for future classes.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

I wish the sciences, maths and engineering were more unified in the symbols they used and how the wrote them in text.

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Dealing with both Chem and Bio at the same time was made tougher because of this. Also the fact that they use entirely different names for the same things made it tough to remember which science used which.