wish you could’ve liked it as much as i did

Miss you buddy

Miss you buddy

Next time you are going to make me look like an idiot can you please try to do it before you post the article. I fully appreciate rationality, help me out when it is not being met. Not mad, just feel like a silly boy. Still feel sexy though.

Much Love,

Alex

Next time you are going to make me look like an idiot can you please try to do it before you post the article. I fully appreciate rationality, help me out when it is not being met. Not mad, just feel like a silly boy. Still feel sexy though.

Much Love,

Alex

I think the application of math is beyond the numbers. Its more the problem solving and creating a solution from an issue. I know there arent many proofs in calc, but that is the art of math. Much like an essay, a proof is a stream of logical statements that proves something. I think theres alot to be said about that in the real world. anyways thats my 2 cents.

back to relaxation before i get my butt kicked in nyc.

I think the application of math is beyond the numbers. Its more the problem solving and creating a solution from an issue. I know there arent many proofs in calc, but that is the art of math. Much like an essay, a proof is a stream of logical statements that proves something. I think theres alot to be said about that in the real world. anyways thats my 2 cents.

back to relaxation before i get my butt kicked in nyc.

I’d say we take a less careerist justification of GEs, and see them instead as mandated classes that serve the two essential functions of a liberal arts college: broadening our intellectual tastes and sharpening our analytical abilities. Most of the skills you mentioned–writing, reading, and interpretation–come from being able to think critically, to analyze a block of text and respond intelligently. (Speaking is a parlor trick, like juggling, best learned from tapes or YouTube clips.)

It’s a balancing act, though, with some GEs offering more broadening (FHS or Lit 10) and others more analysis (Econ 50 or Gov20), and I’d say a good GE should make you not only know more but also think better. Accordingly, there is no more essential GE than Calculus. Take a step back and consider what calculus–that derivative or that tangent–really is. It’s not inane number-crunching or vapid rule memorization (read: it’s not accounting or finance). It’s the science of relationships. It’s the process of picking apart a situation to find its cause (derivative) and effect (integral). It’s analysis, pure if not simple.

Consider those dreaded word problems. So maybe you won’t ever be an engineer and have to figure out how fast water pours out of one lake into another. But focus less on the particularities and more on the process. You had to read the text, isolate the relevant information, construct a model, and–using the rules you’ve been trained in–produce an answer. I don’t care what you do, run a business, make movies, or provide therapy, those are all things you all will have to do.

So maybe on the surface, it doesn’t seem like Calculus will be “beneficial towards my goals in the post-graduate real world,” but you’re forgetting why we take the derivative: you have to see what’s happening beneath the surface.