"tetris syndrome" from really long coding/math/research sessions?

Yea I started working out and doing 10 miles of bike riding on a trail by my house this semester, and I get the best sleep every night now. No longer can't stop practicing problems for long periods of time before, cause my view on math (calc, matrix linear, stats + prob; besides descrete) and how it works has finally clicked. I passed trig years ago with an A, and at that time I wasn't able to understand why there's a unit circle, why pi is so important, and how it is the basis for every trig function. Just memorized it without seeing what it was and imagining the osculations. Didn't even know what a derivative was or that it was actually a point on the tangent line of a function. Didn't know what an integral was or what it measured of a function. Just did the problems by comparing patterns. I had a lot of dreams about the abstract part, like what exactly are these things I'm solving and how can they be used? Very slowly understood the big picture of what was going on in cal 1 + 2 during winter break, like it hit me as the sound that you'd hear a few seconds after a tee off on a golf course.

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