The Importance of Having Friends in Math

I think it's a lot easier if you have friends in it, if you have people to talk to. I actually like one of the reasons that I started moving away from math in undergrad was because I sort of grew up in this world where I was doing math with my friends. And then when I got to college, I was like asking the people next to me like, hey, do you want to do this problem set together on Wednesday? And they would kind of be like, like don't talk to me. It's hard no matter what, it's hard to stare at a book for 13 hours and and do stuff with it. But yeah, I sort of wish math was