For the Love of Math
the most incredibly unbelievable thing has happened. no, it’s not armageddon and no, pigs still haven’t defied the law of gravity. bob and i, certified math lizards (not wizards) in high school have been chosen to represent our section in college algebra for the annual math week quiz bowl. and guess what? i’m not joking.
stifle your laughter for a few more minutes. i know, it does sound like something completely out of the ordinary. after all, personally speaking, math and i are like oil and water–we don’t necessarily mix. i’m better known as someone who plays with words–not numbers. and i write essays in literal sentences not mathematical sentences.
how this happened is completely beyond me and no amount of pleading or begging will be good enough to coax my anciano math teacher into withdrawing our participation. never in my life did i dream of joining some math quiz bowl and i thought i never would given that my inclination does not point towards doodling with radicals, special factors, and a host of algebraic expressions.
in masscom speak, it gives one nosebleed. we masscom students are known to have the same mathematical skills as an ant. it takes some of us a jillion years to come up with a simplified version of a horizontal equation that goes beyong three terms. simply put, math and masscom students are two parallel lines that simply cannot meet at a common plane.
at the very least, this will be a new experience and it’s a thrillingly new way of spending valentine’s, for the love of math. if we win, it’ll be as if aristotle became best performer in a ballet concert. if we don’t, no one would notice after all, it would simply be within the norms for us to floop.
will this finally commence a love affair with mathematics? i doubt. i still say math and i are like two unlike terms. we cannot be put together…however, we can still hang out in the same expression.
February 9th, 2007 at 10:27 am
haay naku. i don’t want to talk or to even think about anything that has to do with the M-word. anyone can require me to sumbit a 75,000-words novella within a week but to solve a single friggin M-wordthical whatnot? promise, i’ll crap 10 bricks for all i care.
well, good luck sa inyo ni booby.
blessed be.
February 9th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
i understand your plight. i would rather go back to my old habit of sitting in front of the computer for a jillion hours just writing a novel than say, sleep. hehe…but i can’t help it.
February 9th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
I knew Sir picked you as our contestant the moment he announced the celebration of Math Week. I’m psychic, too. Hehe.
Oh, yuck. MassCom people are known to be word-eaters, not number-eaters. And I thank my beloved mother for having fed me the newspaper on her first try.
What a way to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Let’s push through with the four of us wearing PINK! (Although I know Pong will stick to wearing black..)
Good luck to you and Corpsey, my dear.
February 10th, 2007 at 7:12 am
i thank you. we will try not to exceed your expectations, if you know what i mean. hehehe…
February 13th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
hoy. the best of luck mamaya sa competition. itaas ang bandana ng masscom! “we too can have calculators for brains!”