Legibility

“Professor, why do we use this symbol? It’s so difficult to write.”

“Oh, you’ll get used to it after writing it a thousand times!”

No Distractions

It feels so strange to think that you used to go to a library to search for these papers instead of having easy(-ish) access online.

Foundations

“Do we need to know this for the test, Professor?”

“Nah, I barely remember them!”

Experiment Public Relations

“There weren’t any difficult aspects?”

“Nope, everything was amazing!”

Excited

This might sound like a rare problem, but it happens more than you might think. In particular, I see it when professors start rattling off long theorems that they know by heart.

Obscure

“My field is so niche that even the search engines have no idea what I’m typing in!”

Thermodynamic Relations

“I should be able to turn this into some kind of machine learning algorithm.”

Sets

“I really shouldn’t have given you that book on set theory…”

Process

Changing your perspective from one of “getting good grades” to one of “understanding concepts deeply” is probably the best thing you can do for your education.

Recall

“I’m sure you all remember how to prove this result.”