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>>15400480

>>10172491
Or three, actually.

How does one cure brainletism?

I'm a junior in pure mathematics and first I would like to add that I have a 3.83 GPA so I know how to study but in the following months I will be taking various college olympiads and getting a high score in any of them could significantly increase the quality of Ph.D. program I can get into because of how exclusive these competitions are, and how low almost everyone scores (The median Putnam score is 0).

The problem is that I have been trying and failing to change my study habits to the point that I just study for 5 to 10 hours semi-continuously a day. How do you find the motivation to do this? I can say that every day I do difficult problems and every day I read something useful, but this is always very discontinuous. I may wake up and do a couple of 'easy' problems while my brain is booting up, then 5 hours later I do more problems, and then late at night more problems. But I seem to have a problem just doing all of this continuously and I think that if I don't do that, I could regret not dedicating enough time and effort into this when the time finally comes.

So any tips and motivations are helpful. I really don't want to end up taking these exams, reading one of the questions completely stumped, just thinking about how if maybe I had studied a little bit more I wouldn't be in this situation.

>TL;DR: Post tips and tricks to motivate yourself to study for 10 hours nonstop

>>9889397
>he doesn't believe in [math]/bbb{R}[/math]

Too many to count, but the absolute worst was when I spent a year trying to get my CRISPR guides to work I realized I made a typo in the sequence when ordering the oligo. I also once mixed bleach with an acidic solution and got blasted with poison gas.

>>9717774
I'm transferring next semester from my CC to start a chemE degree

Brainlet here. I'm struggling with some basic math problem I was thinking about. Suppose you have a 50% chance (of winning the lottery or whatever) and you double that chance, what is the new probably?

a) 100% (0.5*2)
b) 75% (0.5+0.5*0.5)
c) 66.6% (going from a 1:1 ratio to a 2:1 ratio)

Feels like it should be b, but c seems to be true as well.