Realistically, why should I be majoring in STEM right now if there are kids in high school who know Calculus III in only their junior year?
I found I really am interested in math, but being 19 and only knowing up to Calculus I is just going to make me lesser than all the others. Same for any STEM profession.
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>Know Cal III by junior year
Who cares? Once you get to college you can control how much math you take per semester, if you want take all math classes, you'll quickly surpass all those kids in both knowledge in skills.
I have a relevant anecdote for you OP
>Be a brainlet, taking pre-calc freshman year of college
>Professor was an absolute genius and really cared for his students (gave individual feedback on every problem on homework sets, passed out handwritten notes for every lecture, etc.)
>Joke with my pre-calc professor that I was disappointed I'm struggling with pre-calc at 18 when Newton was discovering law of universal gravitation at roughly the same age
>He was studying at MIT as a physics and math dual major
>Barely keeping up with his real analysis class, the professor wrote the book so he just cruised through material
>Student in front of him kept correcting the professor
>That student was thirteen years old
He looked me in the eye and told me "moral of the story is there's always someone out there better than you, so don't worry about it too much" before assigning me some extra log rule problems
>End up passing with an A
>Sign up to have him for calc next year
>Ends up contracting cancer and dying
I miss him ;_;
>cohomology is genius tier
epic nice get fucked brainlets
>and that student's name? Albert Einstein
Just admit you have an inferiority complex and deal with it like the rest of us. You can do anything you bloody well want to as long as you don't stop yourself.
what kind of brainlet is still on calc 3 as a junior in high school?
At this stage of the game, you probably aren't gonna be the next Newton or von neumann, but that's ok. I went to a small school that didn't offer anything higher than pre-calc. I majored in engineering, did fine, got a good paying job and I enjoy what I do everday.
Did I accomplish everything that hypothetical me with genius supermodel parents that taught me calculus in the 8th grade could have have? Probably not, but at least I wasn't born to some crackwhore in Detroit or something. Just be thankful you have the opportunity to GO to college, take all the math classes your school offers.
I'm in the exact same boat and it makes me depressed tbqh
>P=NP on same level as Riemann hypothesis
P=NP requires language that describes mathematical context mathematically. That meta-math is the leap that'll get us there, but it's likely to be quite the leap compared to the Riemann hypothesis, which stays within the confines of mathematical context.