Monday, April 26, 2010

Memory Lapse

So tonight I was just thinking about math.  Sometimes I do that.  And my mind meandered to the Math dept at the U, and I had some pretty cool teachers there.  The second* nicest thing about being a math major is that there aren't very many (math majors, that is), so you really know the whole math faculty.  And they really know you.  I think there were like 12 people who graduated in math the year I did.   So yada yada yada, I was thinking, and then all the sudden I realized, that despite taking lots and lots of math classes (usually at least 3 per semester), I have no actual memory of taking a math test in college.  I remember lots of physics tests.  I remember taking architecture tests, I even remember taking the math GRE (I'm not counting this because it wasn't for a class).  Did we have tests?  I can't say with certainty that we did.  I assume we probably did.  Very strange.  And that my friends is just one small example of the things I waste my time thinking about.

* The very nicest thing about being a math major is that you get to learn lots and lots of math.  Just in case you were wondering.

1 comment:

  1. What happened to the "mind like a steel trap?"
    Too much math, I tell you . . . though Sid would be proud.

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