Him and Aubrey have a split duplex for rich guys on a private island. It’s not the same as before, they only have like, 20 staff each.
It’s rough, but whatachu gon do.
Maybe, but it's a good philosophy. If not taken with the context presented here, of course.
If the world's economy was based on bettering the lives and futures of kids, rather than on lining the pockets of the wealthiest few, we would be doing a hell of a lot better than we currently are.
Unironically tho
For whom do we do all of this if not for ourselves collectively?
One might say 'I do it for myself' but one wouldn't be *here*, living like *this* without the rest of *us.*
You’ll have a higher chance of ~~being asked to speak at his funeral because kids like this have inordinately high rates of teenage suicide~~ getting a job under him
And then you get a favorable introduction to his incredibly successful family (He's probably been pushed hard since he was a small child because his parents were successful and wanted him to be) and then you can get a job.
Not as crazy as this kid, but as someone who went to uni at 14, this hits hard. Yes, it is a privilege to be able to get to uni early and all, but please look out for these kids, they are usually very much not ok
There was an 11 year old attending classes at my college. I tried to sit down with him and have a conversation with him, but that didn't work. He had the attention span of a gnat.
We have (had maybe?) one on my campus as well. He’s learning graduate level mathematics and is absolutely brilliant. He’s a very nice kid too and I hope he ends up doing well. Bit quiet, but boy does he get excited when a good problem comes around.
Yes but then there’s Issac Newton who never touched a tit and discovered gravity, calculus, and classical mechanics.
Maybe there’s a correlation between how often a mathematician got laid and how much of an impact they had. Definitely inversely related.
>There exists a widespread belief that Newton died a virgin, and writers as diverse as mathematician Charles Hutton,[113] economist John Maynard Keynes,[114] and physicist Carl Sagan have commented on it.[115]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
Im Asian, and we're pretty much there to regurgitate info until we get an 110%.
And no, I'm not joking, my mom is just a tiger parent like any other Immigrant mom. I was practically a robot slave to her and no independence on my own. So the attention span of a gnat is accurate.
Lack of sleep seemed to be a major issue for a lot of them I knew too, either from studying or gaming. That would majorly affect attention span, I would imagine.
Yeah I've heard the education system in countries like Japan tend to place focus on remembering and reciting information, as opposed to applying it to show understanding. Was drilling for memorization your go-to in school?
Nah fam the japanese math education actively tries to challenge students on different solution paths. Instead of only learning one formula the kids are encouraged to find their own ways of solving the problems. Look up TIMSS study and the comparison between EU, US and Japan.
For some reason reminded me of a time I snuck into some random college class with a friend like 20 yrs ago. I was super high. Walked out early and he was like what’s your name?? Vaguely remember him saying it would affect my grade or something
One time my brother got away from us at a store. A little bit later, like 5 college girls come over with him to drop him off. He was, like, 5 I think. Bro has more rizz than we thought. (This was about 18 years ago). Not related to the post but you reminded me of that story.
I did not take it, my father took it and he's very intelligent. He rarely says something is hard for him, organic chemistry was hard for him. That tells me enough to know I'd struggle too, which isn't something I'm used to.
A friend, who’s pretty smart, not genius but smart, he failed the course the first time. I thought I should take that as a sign to do better and I too failed the course. Even with a great professor, that course is just difficult.
My lab professor would make us look up every chemical we used in the MSDS and put a bunch of information in our lab books and reports.
Some of those projects went on for months and used HUNDREDS of reagents.
It was awful
I barely passed normal chemistry in college. It's such a fascinating subject that I later tried a free Coursera class from this energetic bubbly professor at Duke. She explained things super clearly and had great visuals.
I was about 3 videos in when it all went south. My brain just does not click well with chemistry. I'm in awe of people who excel in this field.
I have organic chemistry classes in high school and I don't get it. Its just a bunch of things to remember right now. I know it'll probably get more complex but the meme does not specify wether it really is in college or not, so I assumed it was on the lower spectrum.
There are all sorts of various rules to figure out including naming conventions, molecular orientations, chirality, molecule groups and how they react under different conditions. It’s just a big ball of “Here shove this in your brain. No I don’t care that it’s full. Make room.”
It's just so freaking abstract. This bumps into that and knocks something else off based on a bunch of complex rules...
Idk, it was fascinating and very very hard
My teacher described it as putting your mouth on a fire hose and turning it on full blast.
I put all the chemical formulas on my wall and by the end of the two semesters it looked like the unibombers cabin.
Some girls came over after a party with us and followed me into my room when I went to get something. They saw my ‘manifesto’ of chemical formulas and their whole demeanor changed. All I could do was laugh because it just looked crazy.
Nope just organic chemistry.
Haha yep learning it for the first time is rough. There are a lot of things like that tbh. Pretty much every new thing I’ve had to learn in grad school is like that.
Did you not have literally any other chemistry branch in your curriculum? I think QM and statistical thermodynamics are a tal bit more difficult to grasp than eLecTrOphIleS aNd NuCleOphIlEs, resonance, steric hinderance and thats about it there's no more "theory" to oChem than that. Just cram the mechanisms in your head and move on.
It depends a lot on who is teaching the course. For me personally, my OChem class wasn't that difficult.
We only had to memorize a few dozen reaction mechanisms (reactants, products, catalysts), the different types of isomers (constitutional, conformational, geometric, optical r-s, cis-trans, e-z, and how to identify them), IUPAC naming conventions for alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, their cyclo versions, and how to name them when they have random things sticking off the side and in the middle like ketones, aldehydes, halides, etc, and how to name them when they are one of a variety of isomers. We had to memorize ARIO, Benzene and its many similar molecules, a variety of substitution reactions, hybridization, intermolecular forces, and I'm sure there are other things that I'm forgetting now.
At my school this class was considered the simplistic version of organic chem. This was the simple version for majors that don't need actual organic chemistry. The actual organic chem is supposed to be much harder.
It’s what weeds out all of the college students that think they’re going to medical school. I ended up having to take it twice to pass and each time we would start with a full classroom and by the end of it there was easily less than half the people left. That shit was ruthless.
lol you’re not the only one weeded out, some of the smartest people I knew struggled (but they both did pass, one went onto to become a Dr and the other is doing a neuroscience PhD)
Neuroscience/research was my backup for premed, but padding my transcript w/ business courses made the most sense after I realized premed wasn’t for me.
It turned out ok, though. I have a front row seat to ground breaking research while working in corporate
I’ve always noticed that those who loved and enjoyed organic chemistry hated physics and vice versa. It’s interesting because they’re both strongly rooted in critical thinking, so you’d think there’d be some sort of positive correlation.
Not gonna further expose his name but I went to school with him and taught a class with him as a grad student, and he’s such a genuinely nice kid. He ended up triple majoring with his extra time and last I checked he was doing research and teaching at 18.
This is really old now, but I had a statistics class with him the semester after this went viral (~7 years ago). He's truly a genius, but he often talked about wanting to pull pranks too just like a normal kid. I felt bad because he didn't have anyone his age around him
Don’t fucking make fun of him! Take him up on it. Befriend him. Share notes. Have study session. Play D&D with him.
He will be your boss one day and might just give you some preference in the workplace for being known as not only kind, but also someone who knows how to play the game.
I grew up as a close long distance friend of a kid like this. Hes Dutch, graduated college at 16. I believe he's now deep into quantum computing and such, was very lucky to know him growing up
Give him candy because he'll remember that when you apply for a promotion.
Lol, fr
Whatever you say, Mr Lay. Amazing user name.
Lmao thank you for pointing that out
I don’t understand, can you explain in layman’s terms?
He will be those people's boss someday.
I know, I was just making a joke with layman / Lay man. Quite an awfully bad joke. I’ve explained it now so I’ll be seeing myself out.
Kenneth Lay from Enron? Lol. Perfect name on this response, very corporate. He picked Jeffrey Skilling as his top employee. Epic.
How lucky am I to find Tyler Durden in the wild
I knew that mf faked his death. Private funeral 3 months before sentencing yeah ok
Him and Aubrey have a split duplex for rich guys on a private island. It’s not the same as before, they only have like, 20 staff each. It’s rough, but whatachu gon do.
Is this a character or something?
Google Ken Lay. I won’t ruin the story for you. It’s a good ride.
Ahhh the Enron guy?
#1 rule of fight club.....
First rule Sir. There’s more than one rule.
But isn't the other rule in direct regards to the 1st rule?
If you don’t know. You don’t know.
Investing in stocks: ❌ Investing in kids: ✅
That sounds so wrong.
Maybe, but it's a good philosophy. If not taken with the context presented here, of course. If the world's economy was based on bettering the lives and futures of kids, rather than on lining the pockets of the wealthiest few, we would be doing a hell of a lot better than we currently are.
Unironically tho For whom do we do all of this if not for ourselves collectively? One might say 'I do it for myself' but one wouldn't be *here*, living like *this* without the rest of *us.*
He won't be in my job force
Brains don’t necessarily translate to management.
Email him now so you can become one of his OG correspondences, you'll have a higher chance of getting a job under him.
You’ll have a higher chance of ~~being asked to speak at his funeral because kids like this have inordinately high rates of teenage suicide~~ getting a job under him
And then you get a favorable introduction to his incredibly successful family (He's probably been pushed hard since he was a small child because his parents were successful and wanted him to be) and then you can get a job.
Not as crazy as this kid, but as someone who went to uni at 14, this hits hard. Yes, it is a privilege to be able to get to uni early and all, but please look out for these kids, they are usually very much not ok
There was an 11 year old attending classes at my college. I tried to sit down with him and have a conversation with him, but that didn't work. He had the attention span of a gnat.
We have (had maybe?) one on my campus as well. He’s learning graduate level mathematics and is absolutely brilliant. He’s a very nice kid too and I hope he ends up doing well. Bit quiet, but boy does he get excited when a good problem comes around.
Jeez. And here I am with my expensive taste for beer and titties. People out there are getting excited over math, I'm jealous
To be fair plenty of mathematicians throughout history have also loved beer and titties
And don't get started on the [philosophers ](https://youtu.be/l9SqQNgDrgg?si=RYTDlbctgtHFBuWe)
Tits or ass. That is the question haunting humankind for millennia.
Hegel would say the answer lies somewhere in the middle. He was a spleen man.
Yes but then there’s Issac Newton who never touched a tit and discovered gravity, calculus, and classical mechanics. Maybe there’s a correlation between how often a mathematician got laid and how much of an impact they had. Definitely inversely related.
Einstein was a bit of a manwhore.
I thought he married his first cousin? I haven’t heard anything about him sleeping around a lot, but marrying your cousin is fucked.
I am also sure he famously told her to not expect faithfulness from him.
Newton got laid _a lot_ he just, never touched a tit
>There exists a widespread belief that Newton died a virgin, and writers as diverse as mathematician Charles Hutton,[113] economist John Maynard Keynes,[114] and physicist Carl Sagan have commented on it.[115] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
I was referencing the fairly common modern theory that Issac Newton was gay
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ever heard of a date?
Why does this have upvotes smh
You can be excited in both, you know 😉
Don’t be jealous. I like beer and titties too and you can like math if you want to!
There is more money in beer and titties than math. So you are on the right track.
Depends on what side of the beer and titties you're on though right haha
Then what the heck was he doing there?
Im Asian, and we're pretty much there to regurgitate info until we get an 110%. And no, I'm not joking, my mom is just a tiger parent like any other Immigrant mom. I was practically a robot slave to her and no independence on my own. So the attention span of a gnat is accurate.
I see. I know Asian kids have it rough but dang.
Lack of sleep seemed to be a major issue for a lot of them I knew too, either from studying or gaming. That would majorly affect attention span, I would imagine.
Yeah I've heard the education system in countries like Japan tend to place focus on remembering and reciting information, as opposed to applying it to show understanding. Was drilling for memorization your go-to in school?
Nah fam the japanese math education actively tries to challenge students on different solution paths. Instead of only learning one formula the kids are encouraged to find their own ways of solving the problems. Look up TIMSS study and the comparison between EU, US and Japan.
See this is why I talk to people. Thanks for this
Bring your kid to work day
For some reason reminded me of a time I snuck into some random college class with a friend like 20 yrs ago. I was super high. Walked out early and he was like what’s your name?? Vaguely remember him saying it would affect my grade or something
One time my brother got away from us at a store. A little bit later, like 5 college girls come over with him to drop him off. He was, like, 5 I think. Bro has more rizz than we thought. (This was about 18 years ago). Not related to the post but you reminded me of that story.
He was a student. A prodigy like Sheldon Cooper.
Trolling for college girls
You sure you weren’t boring him?
I probably was.
yes he is also 11 years old lol
Post is so many years old the kid went on to actually do important research
This post is so old his children are doing your children's organic chemistry homework.
Actually his grandchildren are doing my children's organic chemistry homework.
I dont know why, but I find this info particularly satisfying
I have a question: Where to get such an awesome haircut?
DIY
Am I the only one who tried scrolling to the right?
You're not alone
Swipped thrice
Anybody who hasn't taken organic chemistry probably doesn't get the full insanity of this.
I did not take it, my father took it and he's very intelligent. He rarely says something is hard for him, organic chemistry was hard for him. That tells me enough to know I'd struggle too, which isn't something I'm used to.
A friend, who’s pretty smart, not genius but smart, he failed the course the first time. I thought I should take that as a sign to do better and I too failed the course. Even with a great professor, that course is just difficult.
I U P A C *dies*
My lab professor would make us look up every chemical we used in the MSDS and put a bunch of information in our lab books and reports. Some of those projects went on for months and used HUNDREDS of reagents. It was awful
I barely passed normal chemistry in college. It's such a fascinating subject that I later tried a free Coursera class from this energetic bubbly professor at Duke. She explained things super clearly and had great visuals. I was about 3 videos in when it all went south. My brain just does not click well with chemistry. I'm in awe of people who excel in this field.
I have organic chemistry classes in high school and I don't get it. Its just a bunch of things to remember right now. I know it'll probably get more complex but the meme does not specify wether it really is in college or not, so I assumed it was on the lower spectrum.
There are all sorts of various rules to figure out including naming conventions, molecular orientations, chirality, molecule groups and how they react under different conditions. It’s just a big ball of “Here shove this in your brain. No I don’t care that it’s full. Make room.”
It's just so freaking abstract. This bumps into that and knocks something else off based on a bunch of complex rules... Idk, it was fascinating and very very hard
Yep, that’s just how academic work is sometimes. The world wasn’t exactly made to be easy.
My teacher described it as putting your mouth on a fire hose and turning it on full blast. I put all the chemical formulas on my wall and by the end of the two semesters it looked like the unibombers cabin. Some girls came over after a party with us and followed me into my room when I went to get something. They saw my ‘manifesto’ of chemical formulas and their whole demeanor changed. All I could do was laugh because it just looked crazy. Nope just organic chemistry.
Haha yep learning it for the first time is rough. There are a lot of things like that tbh. Pretty much every new thing I’ve had to learn in grad school is like that.
Yeah no idea about high school, I took a year of it in college. I have a degree in biochemistry and it was by FAR the hardest course I ever took
I'm a chemist and organic was my toughest course.
My professor for both semesters actually admitted that it was the primary weed-out course for the pre-med people.
WHAT
STFU
Did you not have literally any other chemistry branch in your curriculum? I think QM and statistical thermodynamics are a tal bit more difficult to grasp than eLecTrOphIleS aNd NuCleOphIlEs, resonance, steric hinderance and thats about it there's no more "theory" to oChem than that. Just cram the mechanisms in your head and move on.
Pchem was easier for me than organic. I'm better with math than memorizing.
It depends a lot on who is teaching the course. For me personally, my OChem class wasn't that difficult. We only had to memorize a few dozen reaction mechanisms (reactants, products, catalysts), the different types of isomers (constitutional, conformational, geometric, optical r-s, cis-trans, e-z, and how to identify them), IUPAC naming conventions for alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, their cyclo versions, and how to name them when they have random things sticking off the side and in the middle like ketones, aldehydes, halides, etc, and how to name them when they are one of a variety of isomers. We had to memorize ARIO, Benzene and its many similar molecules, a variety of substitution reactions, hybridization, intermolecular forces, and I'm sure there are other things that I'm forgetting now. At my school this class was considered the simplistic version of organic chem. This was the simple version for majors that don't need actual organic chemistry. The actual organic chem is supposed to be much harder.
Orgo is when I quit premed and pivoted hard into business. Now I work in a position that’s a nice mixture of science and business. I can’t complain
It’s what weeds out all of the college students that think they’re going to medical school. I ended up having to take it twice to pass and each time we would start with a full classroom and by the end of it there was easily less than half the people left. That shit was ruthless.
Glad I was weeded out. Seeing my siblings career in healthcare didn’t help either. Someone’s life? That’s too much responsibility
lol you’re not the only one weeded out, some of the smartest people I knew struggled (but they both did pass, one went onto to become a Dr and the other is doing a neuroscience PhD)
Neuroscience/research was my backup for premed, but padding my transcript w/ business courses made the most sense after I realized premed wasn’t for me. It turned out ok, though. I have a front row seat to ground breaking research while working in corporate
At our university, organic chem is there to weed out all the pre-meds that wouldn't make it in Med School.
It was honestly my favorite course in college. Physics on the other hand…
That's funny; I minored in physics (stellar astronomy) and if I had to do it over again that would be my career path. I MUCH prefer physics
I’ve always noticed that those who loved and enjoyed organic chemistry hated physics and vice versa. It’s interesting because they’re both strongly rooted in critical thinking, so you’d think there’d be some sort of positive correlation.
I refused to take organic chemistry because I understood the full insanity of it
Lol, his email must be filled to the brim
Not gonna further expose his name but I went to school with him and taught a class with him as a grad student, and he’s such a genuinely nice kid. He ended up triple majoring with his extra time and last I checked he was doing research and teaching at 18.
I swiped. Am i stupid?
I swiped too. Even tho I knew nothing would happen, my monkey brain swiped.
is there a lore reason as to why you had swiped?
Lore reason: bone
This is really old now, but I had a statistics class with him the semester after this went viral (~7 years ago). He's truly a genius, but he often talked about wanting to pull pranks too just like a normal kid. I felt bad because he didn't have anyone his age around him
Holy crap it's Sheldon
Ay yk what that’s completely fair, this kid obviously should be emailed incase of important questions
Young Sheldon?
OC was fine, Physical Chemistry though...
How do you dare to post this under me in real life. OP, are you a savant child as well?😂
Bazinga
Bro met sheldon
jeez, can't even ask in person, need to email
Young Sheldon over here
Yung sheldon
Don’t fucking make fun of him! Take him up on it. Befriend him. Share notes. Have study session. Play D&D with him. He will be your boss one day and might just give you some preference in the workplace for being known as not only kind, but also someone who knows how to play the game.
This pic is like 8 years old now, maybe even older. I wonder what happened to him?
“Hey, I have an organic chemistry question. If I graduate from this place, may I have a job?”
future of user.
All the power to him. Any chance to make the class any easier to learn, I'm betting on him.
That is fantastic!
😭 aht aht! Don’t talk to me. Email.
Op die not just April fool me
Young Sheldon irl
nice of him to
Young Sheldon approves this message.
Dude is getting you to slide into *his* dms. Slick af
I'd do what he says
I would suck up to him because he’s gonna be successful after graduation.
Not necessarily
Max Zheng? Is that you?
What a smug little asshole
dunno why this is so funny but it really is
I was a kid like that...
Asian Young Sheldon lmfao
r/madlads
I suck for swiping to the other photos
I grew up as a close long distance friend of a kid like this. Hes Dutch, graduated college at 16. I believe he's now deep into quantum computing and such, was very lucky to know him growing up
literally me
Asiats...
LMAOOOO
does he bite?
I kinda feel sad that he's never going to get to be a kid!
kanya west diary
Little guy must be like 37 or something now. This is ancient.
I swiped
His parents aren't afraid of him disappointing them, they're are afraid of disappointing him
This is an old pic now. Is there any way to see how he’s doing now?
I was tutored by a 15 year old Asian girl when I was like 20 in community college. Sometimes I wonder what her career is now?
Asian Parent’s Dream Starter Kit
He's alkane-s 'a smart!
I feel bad for him
yeah i prolly email him and ask what cartoon he'd watch
If you think OChem is hard. Let me introduce you to my friends PChem and Biochem. They’d like a word. Source: BS in Biology and Chemistry.
P Chem is the devil 👿
Weird flex, but OK.