I didn't get good at physics or mathematics until you could not longer visualize it, this was my secret advantage over my peers

in vector calculus exam we were given a 4 dimensional sphere that was cut at a weird angle that were supposed to just set up the integral for

I not only setup the integral but I solved it simply by using symmetry (two dimensions reduced to constants ) and my instructor said it was wrong because it "couldn't be that simple"

I came in the next day with the receipts in mathematica that I had indeed set up a proper integral

I should have studied maths