2012-01-07, 02:43 AM
I had all three while at was at my university.
I had wonderful friends who LOVED the same subject I did. My two closest friends worked together with me to help everyone we could... so that they might love the math as we did (or alternatively so that they'd be happy that they passed the course).
My work brought me SO much joy. I worked as a tutor from 7pm to 9pm 3 nights a week. My two friends even worked there with me! We would occasionally band together to tackle some really hard math problems certain professors assigned. I also graded homework. This was simple work (only annoying when we spotted obvious cheating) but it helped us to understand what things students had trouble with. This helped us to help people during our tutoring work. There was little more satisfying than seeing so many students leaving tutoring with a smile and glad that they understood what they needed to understand.
Finally, during my junior year, my wife joined me at my university. She would always bring lunch to the Sussman room (math lounge) so that I could eat during the 1 hr break I made sure to have open. Then as I would head back to classes she always made sure things were clean and ready when I got back. We would have a nice dinner before we went together to my tutoring job.
My university years... truly a joyous experience. Even though the math got really hard/stressing... and sometimes my days were really long (9am to 9pm sometimes)... I loved it.
For now... I lack two and I await the day I end up back at a university getting my masters/PhD.
I had wonderful friends who LOVED the same subject I did. My two closest friends worked together with me to help everyone we could... so that they might love the math as we did (or alternatively so that they'd be happy that they passed the course).
My work brought me SO much joy. I worked as a tutor from 7pm to 9pm 3 nights a week. My two friends even worked there with me! We would occasionally band together to tackle some really hard math problems certain professors assigned. I also graded homework. This was simple work (only annoying when we spotted obvious cheating) but it helped us to understand what things students had trouble with. This helped us to help people during our tutoring work. There was little more satisfying than seeing so many students leaving tutoring with a smile and glad that they understood what they needed to understand.
Finally, during my junior year, my wife joined me at my university. She would always bring lunch to the Sussman room (math lounge) so that I could eat during the 1 hr break I made sure to have open. Then as I would head back to classes she always made sure things were clean and ready when I got back. We would have a nice dinner before we went together to my tutoring job.
My university years... truly a joyous experience. Even though the math got really hard/stressing... and sometimes my days were really long (9am to 9pm sometimes)... I loved it.
For now... I lack two and I await the day I end up back at a university getting my masters/PhD.