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11.07

Mathematics is my boyfriend

I have this thing with mathematics. Let’s call it a love/mild-dislike relationship. I love it; it mildly dislikes me. When I say I love math, I’m not joking. Look at my icon on Snark (courtesy of noldo_icons). It’s on the left. Noldo_icons_mathSadly, two years ago, I got into a huge fight with darling mathematics. I wanted it to be fun and practical. But it insisted on being monotonous and abstract. It hated me. So I told it to go to hell and changed my major. I made the ultimate jump: I went from engineering to history. The break-up was messy and painful. It took me some time to get over. Every once in a while, I dropped by an engineering course I wasn’t enrolled in, but it was for the best. History pwns all. End of story.

The bad thing about all of this is that people assume I have a problem with math, because I’m a girl and because I majored in history. I don’t have a problem with math. I miss math; I love math. I’m just getting rusty. I don’t think that I know how to take surface integrals anymore, and this makes me sad. Today, I was talking with someone who teaches Diff. Eq. and—OMG—that made me long for math problems… I don’t know. Maybe I’m just going crazy. After GRE and grad. school application(?) HELL, maybe I’ll look at some math and some Dutch (language #5!!!) for fun. I’m studying math for the GRE now (speed multiplication woo!) so perhaps by then I’ll be satiated and not bother with any of it.

I’m a teacher/tutor. I started not too long ago, and I qualified to teach a ton of different things. As of yet, I’ve been busy teaching other stuff. I haven’t had a chance to teach what I really want to teach (ACT Math). I’ve done random math stuff, random reading stuff, ACT Reading, ACT Writing, and ACT English; I’m going to do Science Reasoning sometime soon… I know that I’ll do math eventually, but I can hardly wait. That was the first thing I was really excited about teaching, because I feel a silly need to prove that I have mad math skillz, and because the idea of a history major teaching mathematics is hilarious to me… :D

I want to teach Math. :X

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6 Comments to “Mathematics is my boyfriend”

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My friend thinks I get orgasm from doing maths. I even leave my maths assignment last after all other assignments just as a “reward”. In other words, I sort of think, I need to get through these other assignments asap so I can get onto maths! Yeah, that’s how I motivated myself. :P

I want to teach web design, HTML/CSS/SQL/PHP to nubs who suffer in junior classes where the teachers don’t actually know their stuff and still work with tables and iframes.

Posted by: Rilla · November 13th, 2007 at 4:26 am · #

I’m not abysmal at math, but I am somewhat mediocre. Pulling a B in Calculus right now >_>. A lot of my problem is that I’m just absentminded and prone to small, deadly errors. Anyway, I usually understand math well enough, but I can never imagine being excited about it in the same way I get excited about literature or history or even computer science. I think some people get off on the dichotomy of math: this answer is correct or it isn’t, but I have the kind of personality that enjoys advocating the grey area. Also, creative bullshitting is thrilling when you win. Maybe I just like being asked to write everything I know about a subject more than I like being tested over a large variety of little rules that I have to know in a very strict sense. Anyway, I hope you get to teach math soon!

Posted by: Seth · November 13th, 2007 at 9:00 am · #

That sounds interesting, specially if you go as far as saying that you want to teach math. Heh. I don’t think I’ll be thinking anything remotely similar to that in this life or next ones. I have a like-hate relationship with math, as opposed to your love-midly dislike XD

Being a teacher sounds interesting too, kids these day, however, don’t inspire me too much :(

Posted by: lene · November 13th, 2007 at 1:58 pm · #

I love tutoring math, and I would love to teach it, too! It’s just so much fun :D The best part of it, for me, is doing a lot of crazy steps and getting the correct answer in the end… It just makes me happy :P

Posted by: Kaylee · November 13th, 2007 at 6:40 pm · #

Oh dear lord, teach me! :P

Really though — I hate maths. I used to be amazingly good at it. Then I didn’t have a regular teacher for 2 and a half years. Now I’ve missed out on so much of the curriculum I’m struggling to keep up. When I’m not good at something I inevitably hate it.

Posted by: Amber · November 14th, 2007 at 4:19 am · #

Oh dear lord, teach me! :P

Really though — I hate maths. I used to be amazingly good at it. Then I didn’t have a regular teacher for 2 and a half years. Now I’ve missed out on so much of the curriculum I’m struggling to keep up. When I’m not good at something I inevitably hate it.

Posted by: Amber · November 14th, 2007 at 4:19 am · #

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