I am currently a 3rd year Maths student at QMUL, and my experience of studying maths has been more of a rollercoaster than anything else.

Firstly, I’d like to state that Mathematics lecturers are for the most part horrible teachers, they understand what they are teaching but cannot properly teach the subject as they struggle to teach students who have no understanding of the subject and therefore simply read off of typeset notes made prior to the lectures.

Secondly, as Maths is a hard subject and with what I have already stated above, the module teaches a student more on how to self teach and learn with other students through discussion and team projects than simply being taught by a teacher. Thus the real lesson to learn from studying Maths is, how to study effectively and learning from your peers.

Finally, the most transferrable skill that one can acquire from studying Mathematics is problem solving as the subject mostly teaches a person how to think outside the box, conditioning one to solve problems with outside of the box thinking.