> What I didn't realize at the time was the particular meaning of that term. His advice was well intended and accurate.
I had a similar experience - and while it was a blow to my confidence I’m happy that he didn’t tiptoe around it with feel-goodisms. What I was doing as a student, and what had ben successful so far, was not working and doing more of it or doing it harder wasn’t going to help.
Honestly leaving that program was the right thing to do, I probably shouldn’t have been in it, though I’m confident a few years later I would have been successful, but I lacked the maturity and mathematical sophistication to get it then.
I had a similar experience - and while it was a blow to my confidence I’m happy that he didn’t tiptoe around it with feel-goodisms. What I was doing as a student, and what had ben successful so far, was not working and doing more of it or doing it harder wasn’t going to help.
Honestly leaving that program was the right thing to do, I probably shouldn’t have been in it, though I’m confident a few years later I would have been successful, but I lacked the maturity and mathematical sophistication to get it then.