>You must be some kind of special, I'm majoring in math which is literal autism tier and people either tell me that they were never good at math or that I must be really smart and then the conversation goes on like normal.
In math and the exact same experience. Nobody gives a fuck or is """intimidated"""
Why are all stem fags that I know in real life man childs...
Seriously. My former lab partner in med school got his PhD in Math from MIT. I only knew because we were introducing ourselves. "Oh, that's cool." No one ever said anything else after that.
CS here.
No we're not.
I have worked with two MIT grads. They are both low-key AF about it. I only knew because other people told me. Neither of them even bring it up.
This is what happens for me. I always make a joke when they say I must be smart, because I don't really know how to take that without sounding conceited.
How's the art degree going? You making $8/h at Starbucks?
What's wrong with computing? I've never actually heard a good argument against calculating things. It almost always ends up being, "Stop liking things I don't like".