/sci/ - Science & Math

>this entire thread

is it reverse b8?

>in honors calc 3
>old math prof with crazy white beard and balding head
>often strokes beard while muttering to himself but in a likeable kind of way
>one day doing some shit, i don't remember what
>we get down to a final integral that looks complex
>"i don't have enough time left on earth to solve this integral"
>everyone laughs but me
>old, cool prof joking about dying soon
>mrw

another of same guy
>prof easily goes on tangents
>being old he's done a lot in life
>somehow begins talking about an old friend of his
>we start asking questions sensing an easy divergence (no pun intended)
>he's talking about this guy and we ask when they last spoke
>"well truthfully I haven't seen or spoken to him in probably twenty years"
>we ask why
>"i don't think there was any particular reason, it just seems to happen that way sometimes. you'll find as you grow older that people go their own ways and sometimes those ways do not coincide but the nonetheless remain an important part of your life with or without actually being there for it"
>we all sit staring at his sudden philosophy
>my friend goes "man... this is more than just a math class"

>that one guy who asks 3 irrelevant questions each 10 minutes whose purpose clearly is to impress the prof who doesnt give a fuck about him

>Talk about Theory of Relativity

"WELL, IMAGINE A BOWLING BALL ON A TRAMPOLINE

>mfw