1. It destroys your capability to do basic math.
2. It doesn’t, contray to popular belief, help you woo women. I know, it was a hard thing for me to accept as well.
3. It ruins your sense of humour … for example you find jokes like this one funny: “Zenophobia: the irrational fear of convergent sequences.”
4. You will suffer from math culture shock. This is when you are confronted with lectures that are entirely theoreticaly and your homework consists entirely of proofs, and your brain, which has been conditioned to compute things, not prove them in a manner that the average math prof or TA considers rigorous (or even elegant), implodes.
and so on …
#1 by Plurk on September 29th, 2003 - 12:20 pm
Here’s another bit of Math Humour:
One of my undergrad professors was asked what kind of problems would be on the final. His answer: “Just study the old tests. The problems will be be the same, just the numbers will be different. But not all the numbers will be different. Pi will be the same. Planck’s constant will be the same…”