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The math department has incredible professors.

I agree, although I always struggled to overcome their strong accents. Every professor and TA that I studied under had a thick accent, either Chinese or Russian.

One of the practical skills I learned in grad school was understanding foreign accents.

I wish I had done math. I got scared by 203.

217 and 218 weren't easy (circa 20 years ago).

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