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[bliumchik]

Dear LJ: I have no work ethic, but I just wrote half a paragraph about the semiotic meaning of colourbars, so perhaps I should be getting my degree in Master of BS.

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[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Haha yeah, I remember what my history teacher once said - she's got a friend who's an actuary, and she makes stunning amounts of cash but spends most of it on the kind of drugs you need to forget that you're an actuary :P

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

*cackles*

One thing I would never want to be is anything to do with maths - I'm okay at it, I took Advanced Maths in year 11, I just hated it. The joke in my extended family is that I got the history and language smarts, and my cousin M got the maths and science stuff - he's at the University of Waterloo (in Canada, I'm half Canadian), doing IT, and he gets crazy marks like 99s and 100s in all his maths and programming subjects.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Yeah I feel the same about maths. Although calculus was oddly soothing. All the derivatives. I liked algebra. But I'd hate to actually have it matter to my life.

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

When we got to precalculus at the end of year eleven, I stopped, stared, and went "I don't get this what's going on this doesn't even look like real maths" to myself, because I like maths to be about concrete things, and precalculus really *wasn't*. Then I fled maths completely for History Extension.

I liked algebra though, I wish I still knew how to do it. That and trigonometry - trig was one of the few maths tests I ever got a really high mark on.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hated trig. Sines and cosines just DON'T MAKE SENSE. It was just memorisation because my head really couldn't get the underlying logic, and there was A FUCKING LOT to memorise.

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

I liked it because I could see what was going on, right in front of me - it was geometry and algebra stuck together.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Ah, maths.