| Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
| It's Ridiculous and Silly, Is What It Is |
All right. I've previously mentioned that me mum likes to tell tales, now and then, of the idiosyncracies of her only daughter. Like the fact I kilt the one and only Barbie I ever had by tearing off her limbs and head. Oh, right, and my other dolls, too. Guess I wasn't too discriminating about which dolls I, um, delimbed and decorporeated. So to speak.
Anyway, that's beside the point. I still turned out relatively well-adjusted, didn't I? Well, didn't I?
So, last night, Mum had another bit of a laugh at me at yet another incomprehensible part of my youth... my lamentable, abysmal, pathetic... geometry skills. Or lack thereof.
I know, I know. You can't believe it. Trust me, I'm still humilated and ashamed that geometry remains my great, big lack in math. All my friends and everyone in my family had no trouble with the danged subject; however, all of them like coffee, too, so what does that tell you? Ahem.
The sole sinking point of geometry for me was the proofs. Yes, yes, I hear you. "But that's so easy! All you do is such and such." What you've failed to take into consideration is that I'm not a logical, step-by-step thinker. Give me any ol' math problem and I'll likely be able to figure it out, but proofs and theorems? Heck, no! No doubt this explains the difficulty I had with organic chemistry and those blasted molecular conformations and mechanisms.
Years ago, Socially Inept brought the matter of what thinking processes I do possess into the light. I, SI claimed, am a lateral thinker; I always manage to get to the same conclusions as everyone else, but by somewhat more insidious and incomprehensible routes. Thank you, SI. It's nice to know I'm a freakazoid.
So, last night, as I was having dinner with Mum, our conversation deviated somehow onto my geometry ineptitude back in the day. My sole line of defense is that while I may not be able to figure out proofs, I at least have no trouble with distance and packing things, all of which involve spatial orientation. And I've got plenty of proof. :-D |
posted by Cheshire Cat @ 8/14/2007 12:11:00 pm   |
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I thought proofs were ridiculous. Some Greek geek solved the puzzle long ago and I was more than willing to take his word for it. I expect he wouldn't be impressed to find out that hundreds of years after he came up with his brilliant theorem some high school whelp had to try to shore it up. It wasn't as if we were breaking new ground here or anything...
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I thought proofs were ridiculous. Some Greek geek solved the puzzle long ago and I was more than willing to take his word for it. I expect he wouldn't be impressed to find out that hundreds of years after he came up with his brilliant theorem some high school whelp had to try to shore it up. It wasn't as if we were breaking new ground here or anything...