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So I had quite an inspiring math class yesterday. Despite the fact that I’m about brain dead from lack of sleep, I managed to retain that  It was interesting.

You see, my math class is Entitled ‘Math for the Liberal Arts’, taught by one David Kay (kudos to him). The purpose of the class is math and its actual applications in the real world and the chapter we were going into was percentages. The differences in percents, how to figure out what the percent was, how to figure out if a percent markdown is a good deal, the whole nine yards. Well, I’ve always found percents easier to deal with than algebraic expressions (which I’m sure will pop up again soon, so I’m not celebrating yet), so I was relieved for a class.

Well, silly me, I’ve never really thought about the actual applications of percentages, and when Kay started going into all the different ways we could use this stuff, I dunno, I was inspired! I’ve always felt this way about words, but never about numbers! You see, words are powerful and beatiful and strange and every emotion that you can put in the form of speaking or writing. I’m a writer, so I appreciate that, perhaps more than most. But that was the absolute first time I have ever, ever, ever had a teacher that made me feel that way about numbers too. It was like magic, because me and #’s never got along well at all. I just decided that this would be the topic for my blog today, because it was so truly awesome.

You see, we’ve kinda been a disappointing class so far because most of us students haven’t really taken the whole thing all that seriously. But maybe then we didn’t really know the true applications of all this stuff. At any rate, I think Mr. Kay was feeling kinda discouraged about it because none of us did all that great on our last quiz. But he still put all his heart into it and I think we’ve all finally got it.

So, if I could, I will say, thanks to an awesome instructor! Keep it up because you are doing an amazing job!

Oh, and so you know, I have decided to throw up a beautiful picture or two each week. This week’s Beautiful Picture is compliments of Flickr.com and, to see the original, click on the link below the picture. Have a great weekend!

http://flickr.com/photos/7205246@N02/2111361675/

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