Russian living in Italy.

Studying Marx instead of studying for university.

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  • I’m not sure of how it works abroad, but here in Italy every exam is done multiple times and you can join that as many times as you want, within some rules.

    For example, some people will do the same exams that I have just done in February, and if I wanted to I could take it with them, exchanging my current grade with a new one. I’d rather pick a date that is the furthest away from now though, something like May or June instead of February, so I can focus on these two after I’ve dealt with all other classes. These two seem to be particularly tricky.

    Now that a semester passed we will have new classes, so I won’t have these ones anymore (although I will have Analysis 1, which is still math, but Analysis 1 doesn’t require much from Linear Algebra or Discrete Math so it’s basically another section of math). Luckily because of this I don’t have to delay any class, and I don’t even know if it’s possible to do this in Italy, since they have a very ‘you-do-you’ approach.







  • Thank you ‪‪❤︎‬ You are right, it is true that, as Mao said, failure is the mother of success. The best thing to do in the face of defeat is to learn from it.

    Basically, once the lessons concluded and they gave us a month off, I started by going over the program from start to finish, by using the notes for each lesson; afterwards, I began doing exercises that our teachers gave us to prepare. I already understand a few mistakes I did, for example it would have been better to study theory and then do exercises about what I just studied. Furthermore, I also didn’t revise enough. Another error I did was relying exclusively on my university’s material, which wasn’t enough to give me full expertise (in my opinion).







  • What r/Collapse users talk about is usually worst-case scenarios. Also, when I used to visit that subreddit a few years ago, it seemed to me the that people in there generally assume there is no way out, as if things won’t stop getting worse no matter what. I think we are in the darkest point before the dawn, personally.

    Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

    – Lenin