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94ssd:
So I did end up getting a fail on my pass/fail internship (pass/fail courses are 100% bullshit by the way), the same unpaid internship where I was lied to about the requirements from the start, treated like shit, and after a spat with the supervising professor pretty much cut off from communication, causing me to possibly miss out on post-election "reflection" requirements that were mentioned (I really don't know).
I'm drafting an email to the Dean of Arts and Sciences (the chair of the Poli Sci department was the supervising professor, so I have to go above him), and I'm struggling overcoming my "eat shit, jackass" anger and write a professional message.
I thought I was going to be a campaign intern. Help with messaging, communications, data. Cut turf, generate social media content, learn how to do finance and fundraising. That's the shit that was fed to me when I interviewed for it. Instead we were menial labor make phone-calls and canvas interns. We were doing this shit alongside a dozen volunteers, the staff positions the four of us supposedly had were totally unnecessary. But the difference is they had a way to demand we do it for 20 hours a week and stay late into the night. And the professor had us reading books and writing papers on top of that.
Fig:
Boy, it's amazing just how much math you can forget in ~11 years of time. Some of the algebra is coming back to me some of it is a stuggle to remember.
Carl-E:
Hi. Math professor for over 20 years, here.
If you need any help, there's a "Let's do Math!" thread, or you can feel free to PM me.
There are several other math people here, too. We're always willing to help!
Carl-E, AK "Dr. Carl" to my students.
Fig:
Thank you. It's just linear equalities and inequalities so far. I'm doing fairly well grasping it but fractions and decimals tend to throw me through a loop sometimes and I have a tendency to sometimes overthink word problems.
Carl-E:
Badly worded word problems are par for the course.
The usual problem is that most native speakers don't know English well enough to do the translation into "math"... :roll:
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