Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Algebra at 37
I am 1 1/5 classes away from finishing my psychology bachelors degree. In all of the twenty years since 1989 (eighty nine, eighty night, eighty eighty eighty eighty eighty nine) I have mosied along the path of bachelors degree when I feel good and ready, none of my time or mosying was spent with Algebra. And at this moment in time I am successfuly evading my homework. The last twelve weeks of my undergraduate career are full of integers and equations, and graphs, and areas of rectangles..and i'm going crazy. I'm an analytical girl by nature...i am able to understand the subtle nuances of a therapeutic conversation between two people. I am really good at reading between the lines. After numerous psychology courses,even abnormal psych made more sense to me than this algebra they speak of. They can't tell me at 37 what they told me at 16, that I will use algebra, cuz i'm onto them...
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Well said! And yet we believed them then. "You guys will need Algebra, just as much as you will need to know Chemistry equations, just as much as you will need to know why we got into the Korean war. Without knowing these things you will not have a successful life". Who needs high school! Oh, wait...I'm a teacher. Should I erase my comment?
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