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 Originally Posted by eugmac
My dad's an engineer (working in the automotive industry) and all through school he would berate me for not being able to do math homework of any sort (insert asian dad meme or whatever), until we started with calculus. He looked over my shoulder and said "Calculus! Never mind about that crap. You'll never need it. Your uncle working with nuclear plants needs to worry about that sort of thing..." and refused to help me lol.
Originally Posted by eugmac
Oh which brings me to my nerdy uncle who works in nuclear energy. When my mother (his sister) died, he came over from Japan to Canada to stay with us for a while. We offered him my room for him to stay in and I moved to the basement. I'm eating my breakfast one day minding my own business and he comes up to me with one of my math notebooks with calculus crap in it (he went through my school work, wtf!) and pointed out a more elegant way of solving a problem. Like "see how you can skip like 6 steps if you just [bunches of stuff I don't follow, at all]." Meanwhile I'm like, I'm trying to eat my breakfast, dude.... Random memory.
   
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