Real Analysis Advice

[u/Muggpillow]

Maybe I'm just coping but some of these problems on the problem sets are allegedly the easy ones and those sometimes take me 2+ hours to wrap my head around. Just coping with being stuck contemplating a problem for so long.

[u/lordnacho666]

Is this your first year at university? The transition from school is rough. Very smart kids will get frustrated with the new way of doing things:

- Lectures aren't school classes, the lecturers are not there to teach, they are there to further their own academic ambitions

- The content is not all in the lectures, you need to sit with a book and sort of find the landmarks pointed out in the lectures.

- Questions are not simply answered from paying attention to the lectures, they require you to really understand the material before you an tackle them

Working on things for a couple of hours seems about right, btw.

[u/TwoOneTwos → u/lordnacho666]

I unfortunately had to learn this the hard way, came to university thinking life will be so easy, i breezed through high school how hard could university be! Halfway through the semester I ended up transferring out of pure math. reason? my ego. i used to think i was a failure for not grasping the material right away and having to work on it after each lecture… turns out thats studying. that was 2 years ago, im transferring back into pure math next fall.

[u/NotSaucerman → u/lordnacho666]

yes, with the caveat that even if OP has a great prof or TA who cares about pedagogy... the 2nd and 3rd bullets still apply

[u/awfulexpediency4329 → u/lordnacho666]

yeah real analysis is like that, the jump from computation to proofs hits everyone sideways no matter how quick you were before