What’s on your mind?

I started studying math and I'm kind of scared that AI will give us much fewer job options and especially less attractive jobs. I don't want to put up so much effort just to have a mediocre job. And I also don't want to become a teacher. I don't think that we will all be unemployed but I'm scared that math won't be worth much. Can someone relate?

Started my studies three weeks ago and have the feeling I belong nowhere, a lot are older than me or already have a friend group and and I don't know I I fit in. I tried a lot during the first weeks, I talked to a lot of people but nothing happened. I don't want to continue my studies as I am so exhausted and just want to go back home where my families and friends are. I thought about doing a gap year before I started studying, and now I am thinking about stopping my studies and doing that gap year. I know maybe I should try some months more but I don't know whether anything will change and if nothing changes I prefer to stop now to have time to go working and maybe travelling. Should I follow my intuition and stop studying and try next year somewhere else?

Question to TA‘s: how do you prepare your lessons (Physics preferably) efficiently? And do you write on the blackboard or just show slides or beam your tablet to the wall and write there?

For the people who study at hönggerberg: Which cafeteria is better: fusion or food market? I have been arguing this with some friends for a while.

It’s my first semester at ETH studying physics. I had mentally prepared myself for the stress and I don’t really struggle or need to force myself to be able to study. But I really wonder if it’s expected of me to spend this much studying or if I’m just doing too much or doing it wrong… I study every single day, after school and often also during breaks. I also spend my weekends revising the materials and solving all the questions. I still make a few hours time in the evening for hobbies etc. But for now I can’t even imagine taking a day off… and even with all this time I’m spending I’m barely making deadlines and catching up. I don’t spend too much time on exercises unnecessarily, the time I spend studying is me effectively trying to understand the topic/exercises. I’m just worried that maybe I’m spending way too much time and draining myself, does anyone feel the same? Or anyone been through this and has some good advice ?

anyone else struggling with drg addiction?

I know comparing yourself to others is stupid, but ETH really makes it hard not to. There’s ALWAYS someone who seems to understand everything immediately.

5th semester math student here. I still struggle with even simple proofs and any type of "show that..." exercises. It's not that I don't understand them, but I struggle to come up with the (right) ideas. Somehow I still manage to pass the exams, but I've never had the feeling that I can actually prove anything by myself. Can you relate? Is there anything that helped you to start getting ideas without external help? Is there something like a turning point after which one develops a feel for proofs, and if so, how did you get there?

Do you get lonely living alone? Living away from home, without friends, in a place where you could disappear and no one would notice for days? How do you deal with it?

How do people find genuine friends well into their studies?

I really want to short major AI companies but dont have the guts to do so (I would go all in and probably lose all money) :(

How to get motivation to study? During and after lectures, and at the uni I feel somewhat motivated, I plan what topics to go over again, etc., but the second I get home it is gone. I didn't do any studiing related thing at home this week, and I know that, this is clearly unsustainable.

First week. I miss my home, my old life, my friends and family… I hate this city— it feels like some kind of simulation of what really is real, everyone here seems strange, i kind of feel like it will be impossible to really build a life here. I cried today, sobbed in the bus. When I reached my home i bursted out. On the flip side I don’t feel any academic pressure— there’s just the weight of this tern and horrible city that says nothing to me.

i'm struggling a lot with the social aspect of this. it's not like i expected to have close friends after only one week but i can't even find someone to sit in lectures with. i guess having to travel back and forth between my home and zurich makes it more difficult... it makes me feel like i'm missing out, because i can't comfortably stay in zurich for any social events knowing that i still have a long way home, notes to look at, exercises to solve... and sleeping enough one of these days would be nice too...

Are any math/pysics/any corse of study students out there, who search some vegan friends to?

How do you deal with imposter syndrome?

First week hasn’t even properly started and I already feel like everyone else somehow knows what they’re doing lol. Anyone else?

wie geht ihr damit um, wenn eine bestimmte Situation bei euch eine körperliche Reaktion (wie ein Engegfühl in der Brust, Kloss in der Brust) hervorruft?