On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:27:44 -0700, Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:

>
> LOL! I love math. It is logical and, for the most part,
> predictable. I didn't like calculus, because we started drifting into
> determining things that weren't actually possible. I still remember the
> entire hour we spent on a calculus problem that after we struggled
> through the professor asked us to explain why it could never happen.
> Grr. I still wish I had taken the AP exam in high school, because I
> wouldn't have had to retake it in college. I only needed one term for
> my major.
>
> It's the humanities as they are taught now that drive me crazy: What
> do _you_ think the author meant? What is _your_ interpretation of this
> historical fact? How do you you _feel_ about this poem? Bleg.
>
> I loved ancient history and western civ, English composition,
> languages, literature, but I despised the touchy feely garbage they were
> already teaching as though it were a valuable education.

not everything in life is as cut and dried as mathematics, ranée.
sometimes events in novels and plays help you think about what to do in
ambiguous situations. and some people think it fun.

your pal,
blake