Confessions of a Math Geek
I'm a math person. I've always been a math person. In middle school and high school I won all kinds of math contests and had a blast doing so. I still have the trophies and plaques and ribbons in a box somewhere.
When I worked at Disney World, we had a 40% off discount on merchandise in the two months leading up to Christmas. My friends would always want to go shopping with me because I could look at the price tag and tell them the discounted price instantly. (It's really quite simple. 40% off is the same as paying 60% of the normal price. Just multiply the price by 6 and move the decimal point one place. A $20 item would be $12.)
My current hobby/job is getting us great deals with coupons and rebates. I often earn money on products that I "buy" this way. Really it's just a math game with prizes.
My favorite class that I ever took was Differential Equations. I want to go back to school to take Calculus III so that I have the prerequisites to take Partial Differential Equations. That would be a fun class.
But....
I stink at ordinals. I don't know what my problem is with them, but I stink at them. Maybe I'm allergic to them. Maybe I try too hard. But I always mess them up. My parents were married in December 1966. Last year, in December 2005, I sent them a bouquet of roses. After all, their 40th anniversary was a big deal. Sure, except it was their 39th anniversary.
For this past Father's Day, I gave my dad a present that said on it "Happy 30th Father's Day." That's great, except that this is his 31st Father's Day. He was a father the summer before I turned 1.
Oddly enough, if you ask me what century the 1800s was, I can correctly tell you it was the 19th century. But I think about it longer than I should have to before I answer.
Don't tell any of my math teachers; I'm too embarrassed. If you see them, tell them instead that I want to take Partial Differential Equations for fun and when I get bored I work systems of algebra problems to kill time. X's and Y's and derivatives and integrals I can handle. But man, those ordinals are hard.
When I worked at Disney World, we had a 40% off discount on merchandise in the two months leading up to Christmas. My friends would always want to go shopping with me because I could look at the price tag and tell them the discounted price instantly. (It's really quite simple. 40% off is the same as paying 60% of the normal price. Just multiply the price by 6 and move the decimal point one place. A $20 item would be $12.)
My current hobby/job is getting us great deals with coupons and rebates. I often earn money on products that I "buy" this way. Really it's just a math game with prizes.
My favorite class that I ever took was Differential Equations. I want to go back to school to take Calculus III so that I have the prerequisites to take Partial Differential Equations. That would be a fun class.
But....
I stink at ordinals. I don't know what my problem is with them, but I stink at them. Maybe I'm allergic to them. Maybe I try too hard. But I always mess them up. My parents were married in December 1966. Last year, in December 2005, I sent them a bouquet of roses. After all, their 40th anniversary was a big deal. Sure, except it was their 39th anniversary.
For this past Father's Day, I gave my dad a present that said on it "Happy 30th Father's Day." That's great, except that this is his 31st Father's Day. He was a father the summer before I turned 1.
Oddly enough, if you ask me what century the 1800s was, I can correctly tell you it was the 19th century. But I think about it longer than I should have to before I answer.
Don't tell any of my math teachers; I'm too embarrassed. If you see them, tell them instead that I want to take Partial Differential Equations for fun and when I get bored I work systems of algebra problems to kill time. X's and Y's and derivatives and integrals I can handle. But man, those ordinals are hard.
posted by Connie | 1:33 PM
4 Comments:
Math scares me like Jason Voories.
English Major <-------- However, I do understand a good sale!
I don't hate math anymore, but I'm not a natural math person.
However I am a HUGE Disney World geek and am still stuck at the "you worked at Disney World" thing.
Kat, I worked at Central Reservations for 3+ years in the late 90s. It was so awesome, especially since I wasn't working *in* the theme parks. That way when I went to the theme parks, it still felt like a Disney vacation. Unfortunately, I haven't been back to the Disney parks since I worked there. I am long overdue.
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